Smoke Monitoring Articles
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Airflow Management for Laboratories: Navigating the Currents of Scientific Excellence
In laboratory settings, airflow management plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of personnel, maintaining equipment functionality, and obtaining accurate experimental results. By implementing proper airflow control, labs can effectively reduce contamination risks, safeguarding the purity of sensitive experiments and upholding the integrity of research outcomes. Well-regulated airflow also ...
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Cubic Carbon Monoxide Detector: Ensuring Residential and Commercial Indoor Safety
Carbon monoxide is a type of colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas. According to the findings from the Department of Health and Social Care, in the United Kingdom, carbon monoxide poisoning incidents at home account for an average of 50 deaths a year and up to 4,000 medical visits. To further reduce carbon monoxide poisoning incidents, many relevant regulations have been promulgated to require ...
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Cubic Carbon Monoxide Detector: Ensuring Residential and Commercial Indoor Safety
Carbon monoxide is a type of colorless, odorless, and poisonous gas. According to the findings from the Department of Health and Social Care, in the United Kingdom, carbon monoxide poisoning incidents at home account for an average of 50 deaths a year and up to 4,000 medical visits. To further reduce carbon monoxide poisoning incidents, many relevant regulations have been promulgated to require ...
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Large Florida Utility Saving Money through Innovation - Case Study
After spending decades and millions of dollars rehabilitating sewer pipes across its service area, a large coastal utility embarked on a pilot pipe condition assessment program for 25,000 linear feet in areas prone to high unwanted infiltration rates. Electro Scan’s Focused Electrode Leak Location technology, or FELL, offers an innovative departure from legacy pipe inspection methods, such ...
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Portable Gas Detectors:You Need To Know
Generally speaking, gas detectors are mainly divided into two categories, stationary gas detectors or portable gas detectors. Both types use various gas sensor technologies to detect gas or vapor hazards. Both types have their own advantages and disadvantages as well as subcategories. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand the nature of the gas or vapor hazard you are trying to ...
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Fume Hood Testing & Certification
Whether you work in a large research facility or a makeshift laboratory in your garage, it’s imperative that the equipment you use is safe.Chemical fume hoods are crucial to maintaining a safe work environment. They should be tested and certified to ensure that they’re operating at optimal airflow levels for containing hazardous chemical vapors and gases. How Often Should Fume Hoods Be Tested? ...
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Video Cameras in Chimney Inspections - Hoax or Revolution?
It’s the offseason for using a fireplace which means it’s the best time to inspect your chimney for peace of mind. If you look around, you might have noticed that some chimney inspection companies offer video inspections. Is this a hoax to add some unreasonable fees to the final invoice or do inspection cameras add value? ...
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A checklist for commercial property maintenance in winter
Winter is one of the most challenging seasons for property managers. While everyone is getting ready for the festive season, property managers prepare buildings to withstand heavy rain and snow to prevent damage. Winter maintenance can be a stressful task. To get your commercial buildings ready for the season, take a look at this comprehensive checklist and use Property Maintenance Software to ...
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Fume Hood Maintenance
Fume hoods are meant to be used in instances in which there may be toxic or explosive materials present. According to The University of Missouri, a fume hood is one of the most important used and abused hazard control devices. The combined use of safety glasses, gloves, smocks, good safety practices, and a fume hood will serve as protection from exposure to hazardous materials. Remember, fume ...
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The principle and production of dry ice stage smoke effect
The white mist generated at the moment when the dry ice of the dry ice maker sublimates overflows the entire performance stage, creating a wonderful effect of smoky smoke like a fairyland. This is the charm of the stage dry ice smoke effect. The good smoke effect of the dry ice stage and the proper atmosphere of the stage can not only bring the audience a dreamlike feeling on the scene, but also ...
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Hot smoke test in a 16 platform underground siding - Case Study
The requirement Our brief was to produce a thermally buoyant smoke layer in order to test the efficiency of the high level smoke extraction system, activating the VESDA smoke detection system, but without activation of the sprinkler system: We supplied smoke generating equipment, an operator and technical guidance as to how this could be achieved. The testing took place over a period of ...
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Hot Smoke Test - White City (16 platform underground siding) - Case Study
Concept were commissioned by Westfield’s to produce a thermally buoyant smoke effect within the siding complex in order to verify the performance of the smoke detection and smoke extraction system. The equipment used; ViCount 5000 / 180 / 1.7kw smoke generator, stainless steel deflector plate, smoke oil 180, propellant CO2 gas, calibrated temperature sensor / thermocouple and space heater. ...
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How does GWT Solve Problems of UF Water Purification to Optimize this Process?
In one of the previous articles on ultrafiltration, we had talked about some of the common problems associated with UF water purification. Some of these issues are avoidable and others can be mitigated with proper system management. Knowing how to deal with such problems is key to optimizing a membrane filtration process. When designing ultrafiltration systems, it is imperative to keep these ...
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Strict quality assurance procedures ensure reliable vapor intrusion protection - Case Study
Vapor intrusion has become a significant environmental issue for regulators, industry leaders, and concerned residents nationwide. The use of a spray-applied gas vapor barrier to protect against the threat of vapor intrusion has become a widely recognized application by numerous local and state regulatory and guidance groups. These groups also recommend that a gas venting system be used in ...
By CETCO
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Measuring Ventilation in Industrial/Commercial Buildings
Methods of Measuring Air Movement in an Industrial/Commercial Building There are two primary methods of measuring air movement in an industrial/commercial building. The most obvious is to actually measure all the supply points and exhaust points in the building. Compiling that information can lead to calculations of air changes per hour (ACH) which can be compared to recommended levels for ...
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Fire and Smoke residual air contaminants testing
Only recently has the ability to accurately test for the residuals of fires become possible. There have long been concerns for the health of firefighters from fire emissions. Also, occupants of buildings and even neighborhoods affected by fire and the residuals of those fires are often greatly concerned about contaminants that exist for days, weeks, months, after the fire has been extinguished. ...
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Comprehensive analysis of tobacco smoke using TD–GC×GC–TOF MS with Tandem Ionisation
The hazardous constituents of cigarette smoke have attracted considerable attention lately, especially with increasing regulation around the world limiting or banning smoking in public places – and even in private cars if children are present. From an analytical perspective, however, there is much that remains to be learnt about the composition of cigarette smoke, because of its high ...
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Noisy sites setting alarm bells ringing?
Industrial sites such as refineries and factories will always be noisy, but with millions of people across the world occupationally exposed to hazardous noise, and noise-related hearing loss listed as one of the most prevalent occupational health concerns, what can be done about it? Arne Berndt, owner / adviser at SoundPLAN GmbH and SoundPLAN International LLC – a market leader in sound and ...
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Fawley Power Station– Case Study
Project Highlights Asbestos air monitoring associated with asbestos removal and remediation was undertaken on the Fawley Power Station site on a daily basis for a duration of four years on behalf of CAPE Plc. Demolition asbestos survey have also been undertaken of all buildings due to demolished as a consequence of the closure of the plant and the proposed decommissioning and demolition. The ...
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Hydro Nano Gas could be the Answer for Neutralizing Carbon Fuel Emissions
Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT), a Swedish clean tech company based in Stockholm, has developed an innovative patent pending approach for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions by generating a novel gas called Hydro Nano Gas (HNG). In spite of all the advancement happening in the energy sector, globa economies are still dependent on fossil fuels as the interlinked chain of costs to completely replace ...
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