Process and Control Today | NEW-GENERATION GAS DETECTION TECHNOLOGY WITH MEMS SENSOR

25/03/2024  FLIR Programs UK (*Teledyne FLIR)

The high-performance OLCT 100-XP-MS vary of flammable gasoline detectors from Teledyne Gasoline and Flame Detection now incorporates cutting-edge MEMS (Micro-ElectroMechanical Programs) sensor know-how. Delivering the market’s most correct readings for over 14 of the most typical flamable gases and gasoline mixes — together with hydrogen, methane, propane and butane — MEMS know-how provides to the capabilities offered by typical sensors. Customers additionally take pleasure in notable benefits concerning ‘poison’ immunity and working life, notably in environments that typically show difficult for catalytic sensors.

Historically, trade professionals choose a flammable gasoline detector housing a catalytic sensor calibrated for a selected gasoline, or an infrared (IR) sensor. Though these typical options are nonetheless extremely helpful, they aren’t at all times optimum. Catalytic sensors require bump testing, for instance, to test they continue to be free from sensor poisoning, whereas IR know-how is unable to detect hydrogen. Using Hydrogen is rising as the main focus to discover a cleaner various to pure gasoline continues throughout the trade, in flip driving the necessity for high-capability hydrogen detection options.

MEMS know-how take gasoline detection to a good increased degree of functionality, offering exact readings in % LEL correlated with the precise gasoline or blended gasoline/vapour clouds current within the atmosphere. By providing catalytic oxidation, IR and MEMS sensor applied sciences in a single system, the OLCT100-XP-MS represents a holistic resolution that gives a revolution in flammable gasoline detection, no matter environmental or operational constraints.

Best to be used in power sectors, together with petrochemical and oil and gasoline, the brand new OLCT100-XP-MS additionally gives multi-gas safety in functions that embody lithium-ion BESS (Battery Vitality Storage Programs), industrial manufacturing, wastewater remedy and hearth response.

“Our flammable gasoline detector with thermal conductivity know-how supported by MEMS sensor supplies correct, automated readings with out correction components, together with automated gasoline classification,” says Régis Prévost, Product Line Supervisor, Teledyne Gasoline and Flame Detection. “Delivering unprecedented reliability and accuracy, the system reduces false alarms due to integral compensation for environmental parameters that embody temperature, strain and humidity.”

In some environments, excessive strain, temperature and humidity can injury and even poison different sensor sorts, compromising efficiency and incurring undesirable price. In distinction, MEMS sensor know-how is poison-immune, working reliably with an integral self-test for failsafe operations and full peace-of-mind.

“With its strong design and extremely engineered development, our low-maintenance OLCT100-XP-MS comes with a two-year guarantee,” says Régis Prévost. “Certainly, such is our confidence on this progressive flammable gasoline detector that customers can count on a few years of dependable and correct operation in essentially the most demanding trade functions.”

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