Automatic analysis of a combustion process based on computer vision

Vyncke is a Belgian family-owned company active in the development and production of renewable energy solutions since 1912. The company has grown into a world leader in biomass energy systems and has a total of more than 400 employees around the world. Vyncke uses biomass combustion to make power plants. The company starts from an existing waste stream and exploits it by burning it and recovering the energy present. Preferably, the recovered energy is reused on site to create a closed loop.

It is very important for Vyncke to keep innovating and to take on challenges that the competition does not yet dare to take on, because competing on price is not sustainable. Automation often plays a crucial role here. To make the biomass combustion process measurable and digitisable, Vyncke collaborated with Flanders Make through a feasibility study.

The aim was to make the process more objective, as it currently depends mainly on operators' interpretation based on experience.