Devices such as the UltraView can show you where the leaks are by simply displaying them on the screen – it’s as easy as pointing the camera and watching the leaks in real time. Avoiding energy waste was never so easy and quick – you can now find leaks 10x faster than with traditional listen-only instruments.
We invite you to check the case studies below.
Mining facility – $7,000 in Savings in Only 20 Minutes
While surveying a zinc and lead mine, the UltraView camera could pinpoint 8 leaks in just around 20 minutes of work! Doesn’t look like much, but these 8 leaks amount to a waste of $7,118 per year.
Just this single leak, for example, has an estimated annual cost of $903. It was found in a compressed air pipe next to one of the main workshops in the facility. You can see how easy it is to pinpoint leak locations with the UltraView.
Would you like to test the UltraView at your facility? Request an onsite demonstration and see for yourself how many leaks you can find in just a couple minutes.
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CNC Machining Manufacturer, 26 Leaks Found in 1 Hour
This plant manufactures parts for the aviation industry (CNC machines). The maintenance team suspected the facility suffered from a significant amount of air leaks, but never really got the time to perform a leak survey.
While demonstrating the capabilities of the UltraView, we managed to find 26 leaks in only 1 hour. These leaks are costing the plant an estimated $27,300 per year. Thus, the ROI for the UltraView in this case is around 8 months. One good example of expensive leaks is this one detected at a pressure regulator, costing $4,570 per year!
$27,800 Saved in 1 Hour At Pet Food Factory
Food factories will typically have huge compressed air systems, which will naturally also have a big number of leaks. Besides the obvious energy waste, compressed air leaks at food & beverage plants also bring losses in efficiency, unplanned downtime and they compromise product safety and quality.
We could attest to how much money a typical food factory can be wasting on leaks, during a demonstration using the UltraView camera. In just 1 hour, we could find 29 leaks across different locations along the compressed air system. Some of these leaks are quite expensive – amounting to an estimated total loss of $27,800 a year! And all that within 1 hour of the survey. Just one single leak (the biggest one detected) represented a waste of $2,316 per year!
Would you like to test the UltraView at your facility? Request an onsite demonstration and see for yourself how many leaks you can find in just a couple minutes.
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Finding Far-Away Air Leaks At A Gas Terminal
Ultrasound cameras are easy to use and can pinpoint leaks very quickly, but they are also extremely sensitive. This makes them perfectly suitable to find leaks at greater distances (even small ones!)
Usually, traditional listen-only portable leak detectors will struggle to find leaks at distances greater than 10 m. and the use of an accessory such as a long-range module or a parabolic dish will be necessary.
But with the UltraView, as you can see in this video, detecting even a small leak at 15 m. distance is incredibly easy! All you need to do is switch on the camera and the leak will be displayed on the screen, even when it’s a small leak like this one. The UltraView is capable of detecting leaks up to 100 m. distance!
Nitrogen Leak Costs Car Manufacturing Plant Almost $6,000 Per Year!
Did you know that a single leak can cost almost $6,000 a year? This is very possible (and more common than you think) when we talk about special gases.
In this case, while surveying a car manufacturing plant using the UltraView, we could detect a very expensive nitrogen leak, costing $5,912 a year. Unfortunately, this is a common sight across the industry – special gases are quite expensive and leaks will cost much more than compressed air leaks. At this plant, for example, the price of nitrogen is around $0.3 per 1000 liters.
Besides the very expensive nitrogen leak, we could also find 29 compressed air leaks, some of them costing well over $1000 per year. In total, when we put together all the compressed air leaks and the nitrogen leak, we concluded they are costing this site almost $24,000 per year. All leaks were detected in about 1h30m.
