Non-Contact Metrologists
Experts in Industrial and Research Applications
Infrared Temperature Measurement
Iron & Steel Manufacture
Glass Manufacture
Ultra High Speed Blast Measurement
Hyperspectral Imaging
Plant Health and Disease Monitoring
Glaciology and Environmental Monitoring
Manuscipt and Ancient Text Inspection
Who we are
PyrOptik offers expert measurement application consultancy, system design and supply to customer specification.
Started as a spin-out from The University of Sheffield, System Sensors Research Group with 60+ combined years of application knowledge, PyrOptik has a strong measurement research ethic and a passion for measurement accuracy.
Following Lord Kelvin’s famous quote, “If you can not measure it, you can not improve it,” our belief is “If you can not measure it accurately, you can not optimise it”.
We do this by developing novel opto-electronic metrology solutions that survive in the harshest of applications from our team of design engineers, which includes optics, electronics, mechanics, software, and metrology analysis specialists.
What we do
Our main areas of expertise in non-contact measurement and relevant applications are listed below. Please contact us for any more details or any other application not listed where you require accurate non-contact measurement for a discussion.
PyroMapping
- Primary syngas reformer tube wall temperature measurement
- Ethylene cracker temperature measurement
High Speed, High Resolution, High Accuracy, Thermal Imaging
- Tuyere imaging and RAFT measurement
- Power bed fusion 3D printing in-line thermal imaging
- Real-time TIG weld pool thermal imaging
- Desulfurization in steel
High Speed, High Accuracy Fibre Optic Pyrometry
- Multi-wavelength detection offerings
- Glass forehearth and throat pyrometers
- Explosion measurement pyrometry
- Turbine blade pyrometry
Emissivity
- Radiometric emissivity determination at temperatures up to 1200˚C
- Controlled ambient (non-oxidising environments)
- Multi-wavelength measurements
- Hemispherical emissivity determination
Optical Sizing
- Sinter belt in-line sizing
- Rock crushing in-line sizing
Hyper & Multi-Spectral Measurements
- Multi-Spectral Measurement
- Hydrogen flame
- Powder bed fusion
- Hyperspectral Imaging
- Plant Health
- Glaciology
- Environmental
- Manuscript/Ancient Text
Asset Monitoring
- Blast stove shell monitoring
- Torpedo car refractory monitoring
- Blast stove internal inspection cameras
- Coke oven inspection systems
Hyperspectral Imaging
Hyperspectral imaging captures and processes information across a wide range of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike traditional imaging, which records data in just a few color bands (red, green, and blue), hyperspectral imaging collects hundreds of narrow spectral bands for each pixel in an image. This allows for highly detailed analysis of the material composition, chemical properties, and physical characteristics of objects, making it invaluable in fields like agriculture, environmental monitoring, glaciology, manuscript and ancient text, medical diagnostics, and remote sensing.
ChromaMapper
PyrOptik’s unique solution for hyperspectral imaging is ChromaMapper, a groundbreaking and affordable system, weighing only 650 grams, portable, easy to use, and carry, offering instantaneous imaging revealing details invisible to the naked eye.
Measuring both in visible and near-infrared spectral data, it is ideal for on-site use in locations as varied as crop fields, libraries, glaciers, quarries, jungles, underwater, or museums. The system’s large touchscreen and intuitive user interface ensure ease-of-use, allowing users to gather data without requiring specialised knowledge.
Powder Bed Fusion / Electron Beam Melting High Speed Thermal Imaging
The thermal profile of fused structures created in powder bed fusion processes, either from electron beam or laser beam melting, is critical to the integrity of the printed structures. Current thermal control typically utilises an average thermal reading from the whole powder bed during printing.
With the ability to measure radiated emissivity utilising either or both a horizontal furnace or multi-angle emissivity cup method allows for angular emissivity comparisons.
Utilising high-speed, high-accuracy short-wavelength thermal imaging allows in-line real-time tracking of the print’s unique thermal properties.
This improves print repeatability and reliability over the print run and between prints over different time periods, ensuring optimum product quality and consistency are maintained.
Radiated Emissivity Determination
PyrOptik offer room temperature to 1200˚C emissivity determination at wavelengths from 1μm to 7μm. This allows our customers to mimic the actual measurement conditions to determine the correct emissivity for their particular application and improve measurement accuracy.
With the ability to measure radiated emissivity utilising either or both a horizontal furnace or multi-angle emissivity cup method, allows for angular emissivity comparisons.
The combination of varying temperature, wavelength and angle comparison allows the full hemispherical emissivity determination for heat transfer calculations.
Radiated emissivity determination is also available in both naturally oxidising environments or under nitrogen ambient.
