industrial gas detection News
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Apply proper gas-detector technology to hazards
Inadvertent toxic or combustible gas releases present safety challenges in many industries and can create hazardous situations. Detecting unwanted gas releases should be an objective for decreasing the hazards to workers, equipment, and surrounding areas. Risks from gas leaks can take on many forms, and there are three main types of gas hazards: combustible, toxic, and oxygen (O2) depletion. ...
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Sensidyne release new gas detection resources
Sensidyne, LP announces the release of their new web site, www.SensidyneGasDetection.com, showcasing their stationary Gas Detection products to users and sales channel partners globally. . The Sensidyne Fixed Systems website includes information on point gas monitors for toxic and combustible gases, and oxygen; open path gas detection for toxic and combustible gases; and flame detection for ...
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SIL and Functional Safety for Gas and Flame detection
The term SIL is intended to represent the level of risk-reduction that a safety system can achieve and is a way of quantifying the impact and reliability of a system that performs a safety function. Each reduction in the level of risk of a factor of 10 means the improved system would have a higher SIL rating. In the field of gas and flame detection, several functional safety standards apply. ...
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Hot Off The Press: H2s And Ammonia Detection
While toxic gases have a wide variety of uses in a range of industries, they can be very dangerous at high concentrations. In particular, ammonia is an excellent coolant used in food production and storage, and an efficient fertilizer in the agriculture industry. Additionally, H2S is an inevitable byproduct within the oil and gas industry, pulp and paper production and more. Human senses cannot ...
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General Monitors Gas & Flame Detectors Receive DNV-GL and MED Marine Approvals
General Monitors announces that its most popular advanced gas and flame detectors now meet the Marine Equipment Directive (MED) for Det Norske Veritas’ (DNV) Offshore Standards as well as DNV·GL Type Approval. MED is the European Directive requiring that gas and flame detectors installed in marine environments be tested to specific standards and inscribed with the “wheel ...
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Hot Off The Press: To Detect and To Protect
Many oil and gas installations, especially oil rigs and FPSOs, are located in areas with harsh weather conditions, such as in the North Sea or Alaska. Although a different area of the world, similar tough surroundings are faced at the other end of the spectrum where there is extreme sunlight and high temperatures coupled with occasional sand storms. In all of these locations and many other ...
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