NEW! GasFindIR HSX

Boosts Leak Detection and Repair

It’s easy to find more gas leaks- faster - with FLIR's next-generation GasFindIR HSX infrared camera. It's the smartest way to detect gases in petrochemical environments. Gases that are detectable by the GasFindIR HSX camera appear as smoke.

Find Trouble Before It's Too Late

The GasFindIR HSX is a preventative maintenance solution to spot leaks in tank cars, pipelines, and facilities. Maximize safety and profitability by keeping close watch of areas where methane and other Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) leaks can occur.

Improved safety, efficiency, and profitability are key needs in business today. New features of the GasFindIR HSX address the need to boost productivity across a range of industrial environments.

New Features

The GasFindIR HSX adds six new scene integration modes (for a total of nine scene integrations modes)

High Sensitivity Mode™ (HSM) helps determine smaller leaks, so they can be repaired before conditions become dangerous and costly.

HSM also automatically fine tunes image presentation, to make surveys productive and efficient.

Normal Scene, Cold Scene, and Hot Scene can be selected at 60 Hz, 30 Hz, or 15 Hz to optimize for scene conditions and help find the smallest leaks.

Lithium Ion battery, 8-hours field replaceable, three batteries provided.

AC Adapter for 110/220 VAC, 50/60 Hz power and 12-volt connectivity to a vehicle.

The GasFindIR HSX camera is laboratory tested to detect Benzene, Ethanol, Ethylbenzene, Heptane, Hexane, Isoprene, Methanol, MEK, MIBK, Octane, Pentane, 1-Pentee, Toluene, Xylene, Butane, Ethane, Methane, Propane, and Ethylene.

Includes personal video recorder for easy archiving and documentation.

GasFindIR HSX is manufactured by FLIR Systems, the largest manufacturer of infrared cameras, offering the widest selection, best post-sale technical support, and training to ensure your success. With more than 40 years experience and a long history of innovation and leadership, you can trust FLIR Systems to help you protect your investment.

FLIR's thermal imagers are also used in such diverse applications as public safety, defense, navigation, electronic news gathering and search and rescue, as well as for electrical inspection, commercial and residential building inspection, indoor air quality and home energy monitoring applications, non-destructive testing, medical science, research and development, and manufacturing process control.

FLIR's New GasfindIR-LW
Infrared Camera Can Detect "Greenhouse Gases" With An Estimated Atmospheric Lifetime of 3,200 Years

Based on a unique, patent-pending technology, FLIR's GasFindIR-LW is a one-of-a-kind infrared camera designed to help the U.S. Environmental Agency and utility companies to better control Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) emissions in order to preserve the environment now and for future generations. In addition to the "greenhouse gas" SF6, the versatile GasFindIR-LW can also detect more than 20 other gases floating in the atmosphere.

Boston, MA - FLIR Systems, the global leader in infrared cameras, has announced its latest in ground-breaking infrared technology - the ThermaCAM® GasFindIR-LW infrared camera. Based on a first-of-its-kind, patent-pending technology, the GasFindIR-LW can detect Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6), the colorless, odorless, nontoxic, and nonflammable "greenhouse gas" that is used as an insulator in high voltage equipment by the electric utility industry. SF6, although considered to be an excellent dielectric gas, has been targeted for emissions reductions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency because pound for pound, Sulfur Hexafluoride contributes more to the greenhouse effect than any other gas.

In fact, one pound of SF6 has the same global warming impact of 11 tons of CO2. It has 23,900 times the global warming potential of CO2 and has an atmospheric lifetime of 3,200 years. Together, the EPA and many of the major utilities companies are working to find ways to better control SF6 emissions to help to preserve the earth.

FLIR' s revolutionary GasFindIR-LW is lightweight, ergonomic, and easy to operate. It weighs only 4.6 pounds and is powered by a camcorder battery. The GasFindIR-LW enables thermographers to find SF6 gas leaks up to hundreds of feet away quickly and easily. Capable of scanning large areas, the GasFindIR-LW delivers real-time, high resolution thermal images of gas leaks that can be displayed on a standard TV or recorded digitally using the latest real time digital recording technology.

"I believe electric utilities are just as anxious to find these problems as the environmental enforcement community. Until now, they have not had the right tool to quickly localize leaks and assess their severity," said Tom Scanlon, Vice President for FLIR Systems. "Utilities now have that tool and can take the corrective actions necessary to quickly decrease their SF6 emissions."

The unique GasFindIR-LW camera can detect more than 20 other gases in addition to SF6 - making it ideal for not only the utility industry, but for other manufacturing companies as well. These gases include: Acetylchloride, Allyl Bromide, Allyl Chloride, Allyl Fluoride, 1,3-Butadiene, Ethylene, Freon 11, Freon 12, Freon 112, Freon 113, Freon 114, Methylsilane, Methyl Vinyl Ketone, Methyl Vinyl Ether, Propenal, Propene, Styrene, Trichloroethylene, Vinyl Chloride, Vinyl Ether, and Vinylidene Fluoride.