area monitor Articles
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Renting Industrial Scientific area monitors improves connectivity, visibility - Case Study
A large petroleum refiner and supplier often uses several area monitors simultaneously across multiple sites within one location. With the area monitors serving different areas and functions within the refinery, it was important to prevent their signals from interfering with each other. The company’s previous area monitoring solution required different electronic channels for each site. ...
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Area Monitoring: Diffusion Sampling
Indoor and outdoor gas hazards that exist in open areas are usually monitored using diffusion-type sensors. A diffusion sensor has no active sample-drawing system; diffusion sensors rely on the ambient air movement and pressure to deliver the sample to the sensing element. Diffusion-type sensors are a reliable and cost-effective way to monitor open area gas hazards. When installing diffusion ...
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Radius BZ1 area monitor with LENS™ wireless provides ideal solution
Challenge Five area gas monitors, one at each level of a Coker unit, were set up at one of the world’s leading oil refineries. With use of repeaters, each unit was configured to report information back to a central laptop computer. The lengthy setup time and issues with latency and signals burdened by the Coker unit infrastructure made this configuration challenging. Transmission of ...
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The battery life of the Radius® BZ1 area monitor excels during plant shutdown - Case Study
Continuous operational processes at an industrial plant are typically shut down 5% or less per year, yet 70% of major accidents occur during non-routine (start-up, shutdown, or online maintenance) operations. Why? The situation at the plant during a shutdown is completely different from a normal day. Processes are stopped, equipment is emptied and opened, and the amount of people and moving ...
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Fire department protects city with Industrial Scientific area monitors & live monitoring - Case Study
A major metro fire department responsible for fire, hazmat, and public safety duties uses area monitors during large public events to detect gas hazards and determine whether to evacuate the area. The fire department’s previous area monitors were purchased for remote monitoring, but consistent connection issues prevented the area monitors from relaying gas readings to the mobile command ...
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Case Study of Petrox® Bioaugmentation to Remediate Pesticides in Ground Water to Part Per Trillion Concentrations
This case study of bioaugmentation demonstrates that Petrox bioaugmentation can achieve the very low remediation goals set for pesticides in ground water – quickly and cost effectively. After three injections of Petrox®, the contaminant concentrations were reduced by 99% in less than 9 months. Project highlights are: Source area maximum dieldrin concentrations decreased from 9.8 ...
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G200 detects N20 leak in sedation equipment at dental surgery - Case Study
About the customer Dental practice, Dover, England Challenge the customer faced A dental engineer was sent to investigate N2O problems at the dental surgery after complaints from staff about the effects of the gas. Previous passive monitoring in the surgery had indicated a time weighted average (TWA) of N2O at 90ppm, and a suspected leak in a faulty machine. The machine was sent to be ...
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Criteria for the assessment of air quality levels in homogeneous areas
A methodology is proposed for the appraisal of the data to confront with air quality limits. The methodology assesses air quality levels on the basis of mean values calculated as an average of all data collected in homogeneous areas, from monitoring stations located in sites not conditioned from local sources emissions. The resulting value represents the air quality of the area better than a ...
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Chlorinated Compound - TCE Alabama - Case Study
Accelerated Remediation Technologies, Inc. (ART) in-situ treatment system was selected by a major industrial firm to treat soils and groundwater impacted with chlorinated compounds, mainly TCE, at a site in Anniston, Alabama. The ART technology was installed in nine, six inch wells within the source area. An extensive monitoring program was implemented to evaluate the performance of the ART ...
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Gravity Environmental - Budd Inlet, Washington State - Case Study
Description: In 2007, the Port of Olympia found elevated levels of dioxins in an area scheduled for maintenance dredging. The contaminated sediments have since been dealt with. During this project SediMeters™ were deployed in the area to monitor for near-bed elevated turbidity levels. The SediMeter™ instruments were mounted on steel platforms for sedimentation measurements in the Budd ...
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AMAFCA – Stormwater Management Upgrade Positions Agency as Regional Leader
Overview A decision by the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Agency (AMAFCA) to upgrade to In-Situ’s continuous-monitoring solution has led to more effective and efficient management of stormwater discharge and secured the agency’s leading role in efforts to protect the Middle Rio Grande Valley (MRG) watershed. Challenge As in many regions, water quality in the Middle Rio ...
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6150ADK Probe now available
STS are please to announce that 2 simulated contamination probes for the 6150 series of instruments from Saphymo and Automess are now available. STS has for some years produced the SPA6 probe, a cylindrical small area probe which connects directly to a real 6150AD but has now also launched the ADK wide area probe. Based on the real automess ADK probe this has twin detectors built into it using ...
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Carbon stock dynamics in the tropical rain forests of the Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, India
Carbon stock dynamics was monitored in the Uttara Kannada district, Western Ghats, India, for ten years on eight one-hectare sampling areas belonging to different management and forest categories. The study was initiated in 1984 and the area was monitored until 1994. Our study indicates that, in general, the carbon stock has enhanced during the study period with an average growth of 1.008 ...
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Superfund Site, MO - Case Study
Accelerated Remediation Technologies, LLC (ART) in-situ remediation system was selected by Black & Veatch for installation at a superfund site in Region VII. The objective of the ART Technology implementation was to remedy soils and groundwater impacted with Tetrachloroethylene (PCE). ART provided a turn-key system, under the supervision of Black & Veatch. The ART technology was installed ...
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Heat Stress In The Workplace
Heta stress monitoring, why you should monitor, effects of heat stress and how to combat it in the workplace. Why should you measure heat stress? If you or your employees work in hot environments you may be susceptible to heat stress. Heat stress us caused when the temperature of a surround area or the core body temperature is raised resulting in dangerous high levels. High core body ...
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Using Open Path TDLAS CO2 Sensors for Carbon Capture and Storage Projects
Public confidence in CCS projects worldwide is not very high. Many believe that CCS is not permanent storage, and at great expense to govermnents who are funding these projects. Effective monitoring and verification programs could go a long way to improve public perception. Our Spectra-1 open path TDLAS gas sensor has shown very high accuracy in monitoring ambient CO2 levels. Better than 0.3% ...
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Updates to CAP 437 Standards for Offshore Helicopter Landing Areas - New Requirements to Monitor Lightning
We have conducted a technical review of the latest CAP 437 guidance for helipads. The following sections have recently been updated and now include the need for the monitoring and reporting of the threat (or presence) of thunderstorms and lightning. To be able to meet these new requirements an in-situ lightning detection system could be required by all accredited helidecks. We are highlighting ...
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The Benefits of a Tripod Turnstile for Your Business
The Benefits of a Tripod Turnstile for Your Business Tripod turnstile is a type of physical access control system that helps businesses keep track of people entering and leaving their premises. This system has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it offers several advantages over traditional methods such as metal gates or door locks. Let’s take a closer look at why a tripod ...
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