Wondering how indoor drones are being used in the chemicals industry?
The primary way they are being used is to collect visual data remotely during internal inspections.
Below we'll cover information highlighting all the different use cases you'll find today for indoor drones in the chemicals industry, including:
Here's a list of the most common assets where inspectors are using indoor drones to support their internal inspections in the chemicals industry, including notes about what inspectors are looking for and doing when inspecting them.
Flying between indoor pipe racks, cables, and conduits in a production facility to check the integrity of welding and detect potential leaks.
Checking the walls and welding of a fiberglass-made acid-containing tank at a chemical plant.
Flying inside suction ducts, from bottom to top, inspecting welding and checking for product build up on the walls and on the dust collector.
Checking actual cleanliness and assessing the amount of remaining product in a recently-cleaned soda ash silo. Looking for product build up as well as evaluating the integrity of the gauging cable in storage bin.
Increasing the quality of batches by systematically inspecting the shaft and blades of fermenter tanks in an enzyme production facility.
Inspecting decommissioned pressure vessels and storage tanks at a chemical facility.
Looking for clogging in the tubes of a heat exchanger at a soda ash plant.
Want to learn even more about how indoor drones are being used in the chemicals industry?
Read these case studies to learn the details of specific missions performed with indoor drones in the chemicals industry.
An inspector tested Flyability's new software Inspector 3.0 during a challenging hydrogen reformer inspection and found that it helped them easily return to the location of defects. Read the case study.
Personnel at a fertilizer plant owned by Yara tested the Elios 2 to see if it could help speed up their inside inspections and found that the drone provided crystal clear images of hard-to-reach places. Read the case study.