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News Release from: Gassonic A/S | Subject: Ultrasonic gas detector
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2006
Failsafe ultrasonic gas leak detection
The new Gassonic Observer from Innova Gassonic promises ultrasonic gas leak detector for failsafe operation and instant leak detection
Since the Piper Alpha incident in the mid-eighties, there has been a continuously increasing focus on gas leak detection on installations in the oil and gas industry all over the world and safety has no doubt increased decisively However, the final step is still to be taken
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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New generation of ultrasonic leak detectors
Innova Gassonic, the Danish manufacturer of the first ultrasonic gas leak detector, the Gassonic MM0100, has just released the next generation of ultrasonic gas leak detection.
Gassonic Observer installed on North Sea platforms
Less than six months after its introduction, the patent-pending Gassonic Observer from Danish manufacturer Innova Gassonic has been successfully installed on several platforms in the North Sea.
To support the increasing demand for safety, the fixed hydrocarbon gas leak detection systems have undergone a minor revolution during the last decades.
Traditional gas leak detection technology has evolved from catalytic point sensing to IR point sensing to the open path detection that makes gas leak detection possible over greater distances.
With the ultrasonic gas leak detection system that was first marketed in the later nineties, the industry learned about a whole new way of detecting leaking gasses.
This technology using the ultrasound emitted by all hydrocarbon gas leaks to instantly detect gas leaks has become an important part of many gas leak detection systems throughout the world.
Nonetheless, the current technologies have had certain limitations: With the traditional technologies, point and open path gas detection the gas leaks may still go undetected due to changing wind directions and the quick dispersion of the gas cloud.
With the current ultrasonic gas leak detection system, regular testing of the microphone unit is necessary in order to live up to platform safety standards.
To meet these shortcomings, the manufacturer of ultrasonic gas leak detection systems, Innova Gassonic, has just released next generation of ultrasonic gas leak detection The Gassonic Observer for sale.
To ensure failsafe operation the new detector, which is patent pending, has a built-in acoustical self-test to verify that the microphone is functioning optimally.
The Gassonic Observer is easily connected to the central DCS system through the 4-20 mA analogue output.
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