Application Scheme of Infrared Thermal Imagers in Safety Monitoring of the New Energy Field

1. Safety Monitoring Application in Photovoltaic Power Stations

Solar panels are prone to hot spot phenomena due to various factors, including physical damage (breakage, microcracks), process defects (substandard welding quality), and external environmental impacts (surface shading, acid rain erosion, bird droppings accumulation, dust coverage, air pollution, etc.).

To address this issue, Raythink PC2+RT series expert-level infrared thermal cameras can be selected. These equipment can accurately detect the surface temperature distribution of solar panels, generate clear and intuitive thermal images, help users quickly locate hot spot positions, promptly identify potential safety hazards, and ensure the stable operation of photovoltaic power stations.

2. Safety Monitoring Application in Wind Power Generation

The internal systems of wind turbine nacelles are complex. Faults such as excessive current and mechanical wear can easily lead to abnormal temperature rise on the equipment surface, which may further cause equipment damage or even fires, seriously threatening the normal operation of wind turbines. The Raythink TN220 series thermographic cube camera is compact. It supports various flexible installation methods such as bracket mounting and backplane mounting inside the nacelle. By focusing on monitoring key components prone to thermal hazards such as gearboxes, brake discs, and bearings, it supports diversified online configurations of points, lines, and areas, realizes multi-level high-temperature early warning, and ensures accurate and comprehensive temperature measurement.

3. Monitoring Application in Lithium Batteries and Energy Storage Stations

It shows that battery thermal runaway is one of the main causes of fire accidents in energy storage stations. Temperature monitoring is crucial for the safe operation, efficiency improvement, and service life extension of energy storage systems. Effectively preventing thermal runaway is a core link in ensuring the safety of energy storage systems. Based on the existing system architecture of energy storage containers, Raythink poses a temperature monitoring and early warning scheme based on infrared thermal imaging technology is proposed, which has the following specific advantages:

1) Accurate and Comprehensive Temperature Measurement, Automatic Capture of High-Temperature Hidden Dangers
The equipment can perform 24/7 monitoring on batteries and the entire station in energy storage stations, automatically capturing high-temperature hidden dangers. For local thermal runaway problems caused by internal short circuits due to battery overvoltage or overcharging, it can issue timely alarms to achieve early detection and early warning.

2) Automatic Intelligent Linkage Disposal
Equipped with an independent alarm IO interface, the system can realize linkage with on-site alarm devices; it also supports linkage with multi-level alarm devices or cooperative operation with on-site disposal equipment  (e.g., fire protection systems, air conditioners, fans), realizing intelligent temperature regulation in energy storage stations, promptly curbing potential battery thermal runaway hazards, and improving safety guarantee capabilities.

4. Raythink Product Recommendations

PC264T1 Dual-Spectrum PTZ Camera

RT630 Expert Thermal Camera

TN220 Thermographic Cube Camera

TN460 Fixed-mount Thermal Camera