Gas detection devices, as their name implies are instruments which are used for detecting gasses. The main purpose of these instruments is detecting leaks of gasses which are harmful to human’s and animal’s health. The gas detection devices are used in a variety safety system for detecting the potential presence of gasses that are toxic, easily flammable or combustible. When the gas detection device detects such hazardous gas, it produces warning sounds and calls on caution and reaction.
The gas detection devices are important for both, commercial and residential facilities because they can detect harmful gasses which are colorless and odorless.
An example for such gas is carbon monoxide, which is invisible yet very poisonous and dangerous gas. For this reason, gas detection devices are an indispensable part of the safety equipment of various industrial sites, such as manufacturing plants, refineries, firefighting as well as in many residential facilities and vehicles too.
How Do Gas Detection Devices Work?
The main component in the construction of this type of devices is the special sensor. The sensor (which can be infrared, electrochemical or ultrasonic) is the device that detects the presence of “suspicious” gas leak and alerts about the potential hazard in the surrounding area.
Types of Gas Detection Devices
This type of devices falls into two main categories: portable and fixed. Furthermore, they are classified depending on their working principle, mainly based on the type of sensor they use. Hence there are:
- Semiconducting gas detectors;
- Holographic gas detector;
- Infrared gas detectors;
- Oxidation gas detector;
- Ultrasonic gas detector;
- Catalytic gas detector, etc.
The portable gas detection devices are used for inspecting different places in one facility. This type of gas detectors is usually capable for detecting several different types of hazardous gasses. On the other hand, the fixed gas detection devices are mainly used in large manufacturing plants where they are mounted in the area where most of the manufacturing processes take place. As their name implies, the fixed gas detection devices are fixed to one point and cannot be moved.
Take Away Point
Never overlook the importance of using one or more gas detection devices in your commercial or residential facility, because you can’t know at which moment a gas-indicated accident can happen. Some gasses such as carbon monoxide which is known as “a silent killer” can cause hazardous situations which can impede the health and safety of people working or moving around the certain area. So, it is always a better idea to prevent such events from happening, rather than to deal with the consequences, which in most cases can be fatal.
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