Gas Detection

Process Safety Beacon: What Is an Acceptable LEL Detector Reading?

Karen Simpson — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 21:02:33 +0000

An LEL reading indicates that some flammable vapor is present.

August

2022

Risk Assessment and Safeguarding of Lithium Ion Battery Containing Facilities

Site Administrator — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:20:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 22, 2021

The energy portfolio is rapidly moving to renewables and away from traditional fossil-fuel based options. While wind and solar comprise a larger...

Optimal Placement of Gas Detectors Using Dispersion Modeling

Site Administrator — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 21, 2021

Historically, gas detector placement was performed by experienced designers using rules of thumb and judgment based on fundamental principles of gas...

Early Warning Solution for Gas Leaks

Site Administrator — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 21, 2021

Automated early detection of gas leaks and tracking of moving gas clouds in case of an incident â this combination of risk...

How Effective Is Your Fire and Gas System?

Site Administrator — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 21, 2021

A well-conceived fire and gas system enables the early detection of loss of containment incidents, and the resultant actions can significantly reduce...

Effect of Surface Heterogeneity, Heat of Adsorption and Surface Area on the Characteristics of PANI-SnO2 Based H2s Gas Sensor

Site Administrator — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:12:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 16, 2020

The emeraldine salt form of polyaniline (PANI) is a p-type organic semiconductor with polarons as charge carrier species[4] (figure 1 (a)). The...

Platform Rapidly Identifies Harmful Gases

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:19:51 +0000

January

2020

A compromise in air quality can pose a tremendous risk to public health. Current methods to identify airborne chemicals use time-consuming analysis techniques like gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), which can take hours or days to deliver results. In emergency situations such as gas leaks or natural disasters, instant identification of airborne chemicals is necessary to identify and mitigate risks.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 20:19:46 +0000

Transforming a Carbon-Based Economy; DNA Star Sensor Detects Dengue Virus; Combating Micronutrient Deficiency on a Microscopic Scale; Researchers Establish World Record for Converting Heat to Electricity; Converting Beer Waste into Activated Carbon; Platform Rapidly Identifies Harmful Gases; The Toilet: An Unlikely Solution for Reducing Water Waste

January

2020

New Products: June 2019

Karen Simpson — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:49:44 +0000

Operations and Maintenance Remote Data Logger Connects to the Cloud The Digi-Sense multiparameter data logger allows operations maintenance personnel to remotely monitor temperature, humidity, CO 2 , or barometric pressure levels of a laboratory,...

June

2019

Catalyzing Commercialization: Low-Power Hazardous-Gas Sensing Integrates with Consumer Electronics

Karen Simpson — Mon, 06 May 2019 15:15:28 +0000

Commercial chemical sensing technologies face severe limitations. Poor sensitivity makes it difficult to detect very low gas concentrations (less than 100 ppb), and poor selectivity may generate a false-positive signal when interfering gases are...

May

2019

Investigation of a Polymeric Resin Deflagration Using Advanced Calorimetric Techniques

Site Administrator — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:30:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 2, 2019

2019 AIChE Global Congress Process Safety Abstract Submission- FINAL Title: Investigation of a Deflagration Incident using Adiabatic Calorimetric...

Reaction Effluent Analysis Using Adiabatic Calorimetric Experiments

Site Administrator — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:45:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

April 24, 2018

The safe design and operation of chemical production facilities requires knowledge of the potential hazards of process streams. For managing the...

How Small of a Cloud We Want to Detect on Our Gas Detectors?

Site Administrator — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 28, 2017

There is a crucial question that has room for a lot discussions. How small is really small? The idea of this paper is to cover a series of cloud...

Criteria for Determining the Need for Installation of Fixed FIRE and Gas Detectors in Petroleum Refineries

Site Administrator — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 28, 2017

CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING THE NEED FOR INSTALLATION OF FIXED FIRE AND GAS DETECTORS IN PETROLEUM REFINERIES One of the most important aspects of...

Improving Ethylene Charge Gas Compressor Performance

Site Administrator — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:29:45 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety

March 15, 2011

The changing landscape of the ethylene industry requiring more feedstock flexibility and upstream and downstream integration increases the complexity...