Having a camera mounted at a porthole of a boiler, and a monitor in the control room, has proven to be a very useful tool for operators. However, your company's computer network can greatly enhance and broaden the use of the camera system. By archiving these digital images to a database, users can query historical pictures to study effects and causes of slagging over time. Viewing real-time and archived combustion images through a web-based interface can provide plant personnel and engineers with a powerful tool to achieve the following:

• View live streaming images and real-time snapshots from anywhere on your company's network. (Up to 4 cameras can be viewed at once.)
• Along with PI data, archived images from the boiler cameras can provide a powerful troubleshooting tool to track slag growth over time from anywhere on your company's network.
• Provide daily images over a wide range of time, and the ability to drilldown into a selected day. This interface is designed to track gradual (or rapid) changes over an extended period of time.
• Correlate slag growth with related process variable available in PI such as excess air, burner configuration, FEGT or fuel properties.