Area Monitoring can only go as far as ensuring the safety of the facility from a hydrogen explosion. However, in order to locate the exact source of a leak, a portable hydrogen leak detector is necessary to pin point the leak and take corrective action. Leak Location can be classified into Safety Leak Location and Leak Integrity Testing.
Safety Leak Location is a crucial application in industries transacting hydrogen-like Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemicals, Fertilizer, Steel, Pharmaceuticals, Power, Aerospace, Automobile, Precious Metals, Research and other industries.
Leak Integrity Testing is used in several industries like Automobile, Aerospace, Engineering, HVAC, Refrigeration and Packaging as a quality control procedure for checking the leak integrity of end products. In this application, a Tracer Gas (Mixture of 95% Nitrogen and 5% Hydrogen) is pumped into the test subject and a Hydrogen Leak Detector is used to sniff around the test subject to identify leaks. The Tracer Gas based Leak Integrity Testing is replacing old methods like Helium Leak Tests, Pressure Decay Tests using Air and Bubble Tests by dunking the pressurized test subject in water. The Tracer Gas based Leak Integrity Testing is clean, efficient, effective and can detect minutest leaks which cannot be detected by the traditional methods. A Hydrogen Leak Detector with extremely high sensitivity is required to address this application.
Automobile Manufacturing
The ever-growing demand on automobile manufacturers to reduce emissions and enhance fuel efficiency leads to greater leak-tightness requirements. The smallest leaks can cause refrigerants, lubricants, wiper fluids, coolants, fuels, brake fluid and airbag propellants to escape and spill. Automobile manufacturers and their ancillary part makers require solutions that can pinpoint the minutest leaks and ensure high reproducibility and certainty of the measured parameters.
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Aerospace Manufacturing and MRO
Leak detection in the aerospace industry has very high demands of robustness, ease of use, accuracy and quick repeatability. Pinpointing leakages in various components and sub-systems is a very critical aspect of quality assurance. Time-sensitive MRO activities require leak detectors which can recover immediately for performing multiple tests within a short span of time. A lightweight, portable and highly sensitive Hydrogen Detector is needed to meet the exacting requirements.
Products Used for Aerospace Manufacturing and MRO
HVAC and Refrigeration
The efficiency of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning industry depends on the leak integrity of components carrying coolants, refrigerants and air. Any breach in the closed system leads to a fall in the efficiency of operations affecting the performance drastically. Consequently, leak testing is a crucial quality control procedure demanding robustness, ease of use, accuracy and quick repeatability. Several components like coils, radiators, compressors and tubing are tested for their leak integrity.
Products Used for HVAC and Refrigeration
