Gas Detection
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Gas Detection Articles
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Gas Detection: Bump Testing - There Simply is No Other Option to Ensure Your Safety [Aug 2010]
True story: On a warm summer morning, the operations crew sat in the control room of a rural western US manufacturing facility. During their morning discussion, one of the operators noticed the smell of gas.
Gas Detection [Jun 2010]
Gas detectors for the Chinese market
The certification process for gas detection equipment can be complicated in China. Gas detection manufacturers from other major trading blocks around the world will find that exporting products to the Chinese market doesn’t follow a similar route to those for European or North American approval, for example. Differences in national standards, and a stringent approval route makes Chinese approval for gas detection products confusing and time-consuming, but not without its economic advantages.
Air Quality - an Overview [Jun 2010]
The importance of regulation and the accumulation of reliable data cannot be overestimated
Air quality continues to become a more and more pertinent issue to people as they get on with their busy lives. The quality of the air that we breathe means different things to different people. Of concern to all of us is the potential for negative effects to our health. Both UK and EU legislation1 recognises the ‘worst offenders’, namely sulphur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, particulate matter and heavy metals including mercury and lead. Epidemiological studies, past and present have made the link between increased levels of pollution in the atmosphere and mortality rate. The ‘Great’ London Smog of December 1952 was accountable by some estimations for the premature death of up to 12,000 people2. The causes were stable atmospheric conditions, cold weather, but pertinently the release of enhanced masses of sulphur dioxide and particulate matter from domestic and industrial burning of coal and other solid fuels. The likelihood of such an event happening in the western world today is remote. The use of ‘cleaner’ fuels and tighter industrial regulation ensure that even under the most unfavourable meteorological conditions, major urban centres are not prone to the pea-soup conditions of yesteryear.
More or Less Air Quality - Monitoring Air Quality at the Personal Scale [Mar 2010]
A synergistic collision of technologies is offering a new chance to create air quality networks at an affordable cost. Lower power, lower cost GPS plus GSM networking via mobile phone network are combining with improved low cost gas sensors that sense gas concentrations at parts-per-billion (ppb) levels. The result? Low cost air quality networks that can monitor urban air quality in real time.
Sensing the Way Ahead [Jan 2010]
Only rarely in business do we witness a ‘quantum leap forward’ in the application of new technologies (think Dyson, i-Pod, Wii), but when we do it invariably alters the landscape of a particular industry, and of the way in which we attain a desired outcome.
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Environmental Monitoring Standards and Methods - Selection of standards for emission monitoring [Dec 2009]
With the increasing requirement for the installation of continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) it is important that capital investment is protected and that instrumentation gives reliable, meaningful and repeatable data. Fitting MCERTS-approved equipment is one element but it is extremely important that the system is verified. The verification process requires the use of standard reference methods to underpin the data.
Industrial Gas Detection [Nov 2009]
Two recent and successful prosecutions brought by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) act as a stark reminder of the importance, among other systems and procedures, of having appropriate and functioning gas detection equipment to help protect employees from serious injury or even death.
Ammonia Sensors and Their Applications [Sep 2009]
The key to success is understanding the monitoring environment, and the specific benefits and limitations of the sensors selected
Gas Detection [Aug 2009]
Analysis Methods For Particular Harmful Gases
Monitoring Heavy Metals [Jun 2009]
Recent changes to the monitoring of heavy metals in ambient air
The UK Heavy Metals Monitoring Network measures the concentration of metals in ambient air in order to assess the UK’s compliance with European air quality legislation and the exposure of the general population to potentially harmful compounds. This article describes the operation of the Network, and how its constituent monitoring sites around the UK have recently been reorganised in order to ensure compliance with European legislation.
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Detecting Gases [Apr 2009]
What you can't smell can hurt you
Walking through a drill-site area, a worker smells rotten eggs and stops for a minute or two to assess where a gas leak might exist. Rubbing his itchy eyes as he investigates further, he notices that he no longer smells the tell-tale hydrogen sulphide odour. He does not realize that the gas has deadened his olfactory senses and unless he leaves the area within seconds, he could lose consciousness and possibly his life. A well-researched and planned gas-detection strategy can help reduce the likelihood of situations such as this.
Industrial Gas Detection [Feb 2009]
The Choice of the Best Sensor Technology
In many industrial plants possible leaks of toxic or flammable gas constitute the primary source of hazards for plant/buildings and for workers. For this reason a fast detection of gas leaks or vapour clouds is important to prevent hazardous conditions, and it is in these cases where fixed gas detection systems assume a primary role in safety.
Industrial Gas Detection [Feb 2009]
The Choice of the Best Sensor Technology
In many industrial plants possible leaks of toxic or flammable gas constitute the primary source of hazards for plant/buildings and for workers. For this reason a fast detection of gas leaks or vapour clouds is important to prevent hazardous conditions, and it is in these cases where fixed gas detection systems assume a primary role in safety.
Calibrate with Confidence [Jan 2009]
Calibration is the key to accurate gas detection
Gas detectors are life saving devices. They are precision instruments that are built solely to measure and monitor potentially lethal gases in the workplace. The only way to ensure that a gas monitor will accurately respond to the hazardous gas or gases it is designed to detect is to calibrate the sensors against a known gas standard.
Monitoring for Safe Work [Oct 2008]
Toxic VOCs in oil industry applications
Organic chemicals consist of molecules that contain carbon. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are organic compounds characterised by their tendency to evaporate easily at room temperature.
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Air Quality Monitoring [Sep 2008]
Future of emissions/air monitoring and the linking of European standards
We would all like to gaze into a crystal ball to see how the industry is going to develop but we do know of forthcoming standards and legislation which will affect the way we operate. European standards developed by CEN have a mandatory requirement and must be adopted by all states within the European Union.
Industrial Gas Detection [Aug 2008]
Designed for large Petro-Chemical complexes
The use of gas detection as part of an overall safety system
There is a popular belief that when you install a gas detection system you make the installation safe. This incorrect and dangerous statement cannot be further from the truth. An installation cannot be made safe by such a simple action; the safety of any installation begins at the design stage - good engineering and materials, and follows through construction to the development of safe operating practices undertaken by trained and competent personnel. After the correct engineering and development of safe operating practices only then can gas detection accept a role to assist and improve the overall safety of the installation.
Industrial Gas Detection [Aug 2008]
Designed for large Petro-Chemical complexes
The use of gas detection as part of an overall safety system
There is a popular belief that when you install a gas detection system you make the installation safe. This incorrect and dangerous statement cannot be further from the truth. An installation cannot be made safe by such a simple action; the safety of any installation begins at the design stage - good engineering and materials, and follows through construction to the development of safe operating practices undertaken by trained and competent personnel. After the correct engineering and development of safe operating practices only then can gas detection accept a role to assist and improve the overall safety of the installation.
HSI's Gas Detection FORUM [Jul 2008]
The fourth of our five manufacturers forums for 2008 concentrates on the field of gas detection. Once again we approached manufacturers from around the world with the same questions and these are the answers we received.
Why Use Gas Detectors? [Feb 2008]
Emerging Technologies Can Enhance Their Effectiveness
Gas detectors form an important part of safety systems to help protect users from the effects of explosion, fire or ill-health (acute, ie short term and chronic, ie long term) arising from flammable, toxic or asphyxiant gases1.
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Why Use Gas Detectors? [Feb 2008]
Emerging Technologies Can Enhance Their Effectiveness
Gas detectors form an important part of safety systems to help protect users from the effects of explosion, fire or ill-health (acute, ie short term and chronic, ie long term) arising from flammable, toxic or asphyxiant gases1.
Getting the Measure of Methane [Jan 2008]
Geotech looks at the world of biogas with focus through two case studies
Methane makes money. It generates energy revenues, carbon credits and is part of bio-treatment sludge processing. In most of the world it has only just begun. Measuring what we are doing and being responsible with this potentially damaging greenhouse gas makes good sense.
Portable Gas Detection [Jan 2008]
Minimising workers risk to atmospheric hazards
There are a large number of occupations that require the entry to a confined space. A definition of a confined space varies in the legislation from one country to another, but the differences in effect are slight. In essence it is a space that is large enough to enter and perform work but has limited or restricted means for entry and exit and is not designed for continuous human occupancy. Anyone entering such a space by virtue of its enclosed nature is at increased risk of being overcome by toxic fumes, vapour and oxygen deficiency, drowning, extreme temperature or explosion.
Monitoring You Can Trust [Oct 2007]
Developments in gas detection
Gas monitoring instruments used by occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) professionals have come a long way in improvements since the days of analog monitors designed to warn coal miners of the presence of methane gas. They are advanced to the point where the instruments are chock-full of exceptional features and functionality, much of which comes standard with the product. New or improved technologies have helped to raise the bar, as well as market expectations, resulting in better products and more choices.
Confined Spaces [Jul 2007]
Choosing the best confined space gas detector
The “best” confined space gas detector doesn’t come from any one manufacturer; it’s the instrument that best fulfils the requirements for your confined space programme.
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Gas Detection [Jan 2007]
Mining, health & safety practices, regulations
Mines can be hazardous environments and the possibility of fire, flood, explosion, asphyxiation, toxic gas poisoning and collapse has the potential to simultaneously affect a large number of people.
The Threat of CO Poisoning [Oct 2006]
How employers can protect their employees at work, AND at home
Carbon monoxide has been listed under COSHH ever since the regulations were published, so it has been necessary for companies to provide a means of detection as a duty of care to their employees.
Why Use Gas Detectors? [Jan 2006]
Gas detectors perform a valuable role in the workplace. Emerging technologies can enhance their effectiveness.
Problems with Pitots Reporting Emissions [Sep 2005]
Issues with flow measurement in stacks
Something in the Air Monitoring Air Pollution [Sep 2005]
Furthering air quality modelling and research
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Field and Continuous Measurements [Mar 2005]
Making Sure We Make the Best Use of Them
The specification and use of online/field instruments and test kits can be a complicated business. Making the wrong choice could prove expensive.
Tim White explores the range of International Standards and related guidance which can help when specifying equipment and validating the data against required performance set by standard methods advocated by regulatory bodies.
The Unseen Threat of VOCs [Mar 2005]
How photoionisation detection is used for worker protection, fenceline monitoring and environmental remediation.
Organic compounds are chemicals that contain carbon and are found in all living things. Volatile organic compounds, often referred to as VOCs, are organic compounds that easily become vapours or gases.
Dealing With Contaminated Land [Mar 2005]
The Environment agency estimates that there are some 300,000 hectares of land in the UK affected to by contamination left by industrial activity alone.
Contaminated land is a general term used to describe land containing substances that, when present in sufficient concentrations, are likely to cause harm to man, the environment, or materials used in construction. This contamination can manifest in soil, in air, as a waterborne hazard or as a combination of these.
Gas Detectors [Jan 2005]
At the heart of every gas detector
Gas detectors do 'exactly what it says on the tin' – they detect the presence, and in many cases levels, of gases.
Gas Detection [Jan 2004]
When using or being exposed to hazardous substances at work people's health may be put at risk as a result of over exposure to these materials
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Fixed or Portable? [Jan 2003]
Streamlining the Gas Monitor Selection Process
Working in Confined Spaces [Oct 2002]
The need to perform operations within Confined Spaces is a truly international problem. Each year millions of pounds are spent trying to remove the need to enter these spaces by changing processes, by designing out the spaces themselves and by the use of new technologies such as CCTV for inspection work.
Gas Detection Technology [Oct 2002]
There is an array of different sensors for different applications. Jörg Kühn explains the benefits and disadvantages of each kind and how to use them safely
Respiratory Protection for Industry [Oct 2002]
Industry can breathe easy with modern Respiratory Protection Equipment systems
Whilst circumstances will generally dictate which form of respiratory protective equipment (RPE) is most suitable to a particular application, recent technological advancements have meant that there is now much more of a choice within those parameters.
