Instrumentation for Power Generation
Analytical and engineered instruments for fuel quality, water systems, boilers, thermal equipment, gas flow, materials verification, and selected nuclear temperature applications.
Supporting water chemistry, thermal performance, fuel systems, and plant integrity
Power plants depend on reliable water, fuel, flow, temperature, and material measurements to protect equipment, maintain thermal performance, support stable generation, and investigate abnormal operating conditions. Measurement requirements vary substantially between gas-fired, liquid-fuel, coal, combined-cycle, cogeneration, and nuclear facilities.
Blue Dragon Technology supports these environments with TOC and turbidity instruments, sulfur analysis where fuel quality requires it, engineered tube-skin and multipoint temperature systems, nuclear in-core temperature assemblies, ultrasonic gas-flow meters, and XRF instruments for materials verification and plant laboratories.
Measurement challenges in this industry
Water and steam-cycle quality
Monitor organic contamination and turbidity in raw, treated, boiler, condensate, cooling, and wastewater systems.
Boiler and tube temperature
Measure tube-wall and multipoint temperatures to support thermal performance and identify abnormal heat distribution.
Fuel quality and gas flow
Measure sulfur where required and monitor fuel-gas, process-gas, vent, or low-flow gas applications.
Surface and equipment temperature
Use engineered contact measurement where conventional insertion is impractical or where equipment-surface information is required.
Nuclear temperature applications
Apply project-specific in-core temperature systems where plant design, qualification, and documentation requirements are fully defined.
Materials verification
Confirm alloys and components during maintenance, receiving inspection, repair, and outage activities.
Typical process areas and streams
- Fuel receiving, storage, conditioning, and delivery
- Boilers, furnaces, heat-recovery steam generators, and steam systems
- Gas turbines, engines, fuel-gas, vent, and auxiliary-gas systems
- Raw-water, demineralization, condensate, cooling-water, and wastewater plants
- Nuclear reactor and plant-engineering temperature systems
- Maintenance, outage, inspection, and materials-control activities
- Plant chemistry, environmental, and quality laboratories
Applications used in this industry.
Trace Moisture Measurement in Gases
Continuous measurement of trace moisture in industrial gases.
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Water Dew Point Measurement
Direct or calculated water dew point measurement in gas streams.
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Hydrocarbon Condensation Temperature Measurement
Hydrocarbon dew point/condensation temperature in natural gas.
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Natural Gas Quality Monitoring
Dew point/moisture measurements supporting natural-gas quality control.
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Total Organic Carbon Measurement
TOC measurement for water-quality control, contamination detection, treatment monitoring, process investigation, and laboratory analysis.
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High-Purity Water TOC Monitoring
TOC measurement for purified, ultrapure, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, semiconductor, and controlled high-purity water systems.
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Industrial Gas Flow Measurement
Ultrasonic gas-flow measurement for inline and insertion applications across natural gas, process gas, fuel gas, flare, vent, and high-temperature services.
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Relevant measurement capabilities.
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Blue Dragon BDT Flow Measurement Series
Ultrasonic gas-flow measurement instruments engineered and manufactured by Lauris Technologies, Canada, and supplied and supported by Blue Dragon Technology.
Explore series →Moisture & Dew Point Measurement Series
Online, field, and portable instruments for trace moisture, water dew point, hydrocarbon condensation temperature, gas dehydration, and gas-quality verification.
Explore series →Sulfur Analysis Series
Online analyzers for total sulfur, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur ratio, and sulfur recovery unit process monitoring.
Explore series →Temperature Measurement Series
Engineered temperature-measurement assemblies manufactured by MESIT, Italy, and supplied and supported by Blue Dragon Technology.
Explore series →Water Quality & Organic Carbon Series
Online and laboratory analyzers for organic carbon, oil-in-water, turbidity, wastewater, and high-purity water measurement.
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Lauris FF1225-XT Extreme-Temperature Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Extreme-temperature waveguide ultrasonic gas flow meter for cryogenic and high-temperature flare, process-gas, furnace, refinery, petrochemical and power-generation applications.
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BDT-SKIN Tube-Skin Thermocouples
Engineered tube-skin thermocouple assemblies for direct tube-wall temperature measurement in petrochemical heaters, boiler and superheater tubes, and other demanding thermal-process equipment.
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Model U1600-O Online TOC Analyzer
Wall-mounted online TOC analyzer using UV photocatalytic oxidation and differential conductivity detection for continuous or routine low-level monitoring of pharmaceutical and electronic high-purity water.
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Model U1600-L Laboratory TOC Analyzer
Compact benchtop laboratory TOC analyzer using UV photocatalytic oxidation and differential conductivity detection for offline low-level testing from non-pressurized sample containers.
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Model C610OIW Online Oil-in-Water Analyzer
Online oil-in-water monitoring system for produced water, refinery and industrial wastewater, heavy-oil contamination, process trending, and alarm applications.
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Lauris FF1225-A Single-Path Inline Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Single-path inline ultrasonic gas flow meter for flare gas, vent gas, associated gas, flue gas, natural gas and industrial process-gas measurement across an exceptionally wide velocity range.
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BDT-MP Multipoint Temperature Assemblies
Custom multipoint temperature assemblies with multiple thermocouple or RTD sensing points for measuring temperature profiles at defined elevations or depths within reactors, columns, vessels, tanks, and kilns.
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Model C620TUR Online Turbidity Analyzer
Online turbidity analyzer for continuous industrial and municipal wastewater, process-water, surface-water, intake, treatment-process, utility-water, and discharge monitoring.
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Lauris FF1225-G Vertical-Port Insertion Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Vertical-port insertion ultrasonic gas flow meter for low-velocity flare, vent, natural gas, biogas and process-gas applications where side access is limited.
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FAS-SW Trace Moisture & Dew Point Transmitter
Compact 4-20 mA water-dew-point transmitter for inert, aggressive, and hydrogen-containing gases, with calibrated ranges extending to -100 °C and pressure capability up to 300 bar.
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Model C680 High-Temperature Combustion TOC Analyzer
Laboratory total organic carbon analyzer using 680 °C catalytic combustion, separate TC and IC reaction paths, manual microsyringe injection, and NDIR carbon-dioxide detection.
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Model 800TS Online Total Sulfur Analyzer
Industrial online total sulfur analyzer for continuous process and product-quality monitoring, with quantitative injection, UV fluorescence detection, and optional multi-stream operation.
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FAS-W Online Moisture & Dew Point Analyzer
Online chilled-mirror gas-moisture analyzer with versions for water dew point, moisture concentration, or both, plus integrated absolute-pressure measurement, 4-20 mA, Modbus RTU, and alarm outputs.
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Lauris FF2225-A Dual-Path Inline Ultrasonic Gas Flow Meter
Dual-path inline ultrasonic gas flow meter for flare gas, natural gas, blended gas, associated gas and industrial process streams requiring greater accuracy and measurement confidence.
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CONG Prima-2M Water & Hydrocarbon Dew Point Transducer
Online chilled-mirror field transducer for water dew point and hydrocarbon condensation temperature in natural gas, with automatic or alternating modes and flow-through or direct-pipeline installation.
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HYGROVISION-BL Portable Water & Hydrocarbon Dew Point Analyzer
Portable chilled-mirror analyzer combining automatic measurement with microscopic manual confirmation of water dew point and hydrocarbon condensation temperature, battery operation, data storage, Modbus, and infrared transfer.
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BDT-GT Gasket-Mount Surface Thermocouples
Compact gasket-mount thermocouples for bolted or stud-mounted surface-temperature measurement on machinery, engines, housings, bearings, flanges, and industrial equipment.
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Natural Gas & LNG
Measurement solutions for gas processing, sweetening, liquefaction, LNG quality, gas flow, utilities, and materials verification.
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Pipelines & Midstream
Application-focused instrumentation for Pipelines & Midstream, covering Pipeline gas quality, dew point, H2S and sulfur, flow, and portable verification across Transmission pipelines, compressor stations, meter stations, and terminals.
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Petrochemicals
Measurement systems for petrochemical feedstocks, reaction processes, fired equipment, utilities, effluent, gas flow, and material quality.
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Chemical Processing
Application-focused instrumentation for Chemical Processing, covering Trace moisture, H2S and sulfur, TOC, flow, and multipoint temperature across Reactors, columns, specialty gas systems, and utilities.
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Pharmaceutical
Measurement solutions for purified and high-purity water, TOC monitoring, contamination investigations, materials screening, and quality laboratories.
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Research & Industrial Laboratories
Flexible analytical instruments for water, organic carbon, elemental composition, material verification, method development, and quality control.
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Which water measurements are most relevant to power plants?
The requirement depends on the plant and water system. TOC and turbidity may support raw-water treatment, demineralization, condensate investigations, cooling systems, wastewater control, and high-purity water monitoring.
Can tube-skin thermocouples be engineered for boilers or heat-recovery systems?
Yes. The assembly is reviewed against the tube geometry, materials, operating temperature, attachment method, thermal movement, routing, and termination requirements.
Are nuclear temperature products standard off-the-shelf instruments?
No. Nuclear in-core temperature systems are project-engineered and depend on the reactor design, qualification basis, documentation, materials, interfaces, and plant-specific requirements.
Can XRF support outage and maintenance work?
Yes. Handheld XRF can support material identification and alloy verification, subject to the required calibration, surface condition, measurement procedure, and quality system.
Discuss your power-generation measurement requirement.
Share the plant type, system or equipment, measurement objective, operating conditions, required documentation, installation constraints, and project timeline.