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Your Selection Made Simple with New Modular PAPR System
Industrial workers around the world rely on Scott Safety’s (USA) respiratory protection to keep them safe and with innovation and quality at the heart of everything it does. Scott Safety’s latest Modular Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR) product range allows workers to tailor their respiratory solution to their requirements, ensuring maximum user acceptance and protection.
Designed as a ‘Pick and Play’ solution, the Modular PAPR system allows users to select from interchangeable blowers, headtops and hoses to ensure they can access the most appropriate respiratory protection solution for their needs. As respiratory experts, Scott Safety helps customers to make the right choice of respiratory protection with a comprehensive range of powered air respirators to protect workers from a wide range of respiratory hazards.
The Spirit and Spirit SX powered air respirators, offer an advanced level of electronic controllability that is fully programmable to meet the precise needs of the user and their application. Each has an adjustable flow with particle filters from 170l/min to 220l/min with automatic diagnostic check at start-up, a large colour display of operating status and a suite of alert, warning and alarm notifications. If using the SX version, airflow is adjustable in precise increments and the smart filter identification automatically recognises and displays filter type and prevents mismatched or badly fitted filters.
The Proflow SC and Tornado powered air respirators complete the range with Proflow offering an intelligent, easy to use solution and Tornado providing filtered air for the widest range of industrial applications as diverse as industrial welding, agriculture and waste disposal. ATEX versions are available for both Proflow and Tornado units for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
Scott Safety’s versatile range of headtops and masks are ergonomically designed to provide greater comfort, are compatible with other PPE and offer high levels of protection and reliable performance. From half hoods to full hoods available in a variety of materials, Scott Safety’s range is light-weight and comfortable and incorporates a number of features that are designed to make the user’s job easier by providing the ultimate protection and comfort. To minimise the cost of ownership, disposable visors also available. The increased ‘field of view’ in the soft headtops makes them more practical over a wide range of tasks. The revolutionary mesh headgear on the newest headtops enhances comfort and makes donning intuitive.
The range includes flip-up visors and faceshields, a welding visor, a range of half mask and full face masks together with half and full head tops, all incorporating the highest levels of protection alongside the latest technology and design to increase wearer acceptability.
Every FH headtop can be fitted with a choice of hoses and accessories with components that can be simply replaced to extend the lifetime or a product, with other accessories available to improve worker safety during various weather conditions or specialist applications.
The most critical aspect of any respiratory system is the filtration technology and a wide range of filters are available capable of removing specific airborne contaminants, such as particle, organic (high & low boiling points) and inorganic gases. Scott Safety has recently launched its own filter selection tool, SureLife, an online tool that recommends the most suitable filter based on the user’s data.
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Test and Calibration Station to Boost Gas Safety and Reduce Costs
Safety specialist, Dräger (Germany), have launched a new product which will help the oil and gas industry stay on top of the testing and calibration of its portable gas detection instruments, at the same time as saving time and money.
The Dräger X-dock is an instrument calibration and management system which allows companies to complete automatic bump testing and calibration in seconds, using just a fraction of the test gas traditionally used with many other systems.
Significantly, the X-dock also offers a robust documentation and reporting function so that users can see the status of their portable gas detection instrument fleet at a glance and can produce calibration certificates without the need for a computer or printer.
With hundreds of very different and hazardous gases found in the oil and gas industry, the X-dock has the flexibility and range of multiple gas inlets to facilitate the use of different gas mixtures for testing and calibration, making it a highly advanced piece of technology.
No two oil and gas companies are the same and with the diverse range of chemical processes and species processed and used in each plant, the three different versions of the X-dock available, ensure that every area is covered.
Three versions of the X-dock are available, including: X-dock 5300 a ready-to-use version which comes with a gas detection instrument module; X-dock 6300 a master version with three test gas connections which can be expanded up to ten modules; X- dock 6600 a master version with six test gas connections which can be expanded up to ten modules.
Because the system is completely automated, the potential for operator error is significantly lowered helping to boost gas detection safety rates.
Kevin Honner at Dräger Safety UK said: “Industries using portable gas detection equipment rely on these instruments to identify potentially fatal hazards and ultimately save lives. It’s critical this equipment works correctly and that companies implement a strict schedule of calibration, maintenance and pre-use bump testing.
“As well as dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes to test and calibrate equipment, our system provides tailored information instantly, such as who tested which device when and what the result was, so that strict fleet controls can be maintained.
“We believe these innovations will help to improve the entire safety landscape in gas detection by shifting the emphasis away from individual instruments and onto maintaining and managing the fleet as a whole.
“But it’s not just about the improvements in safety that this system can bring – the financial benefits are equally important. Major users in the Oil and Gas Industries can have 500 or more portable gas detectors in their fleets which need to be tested and calibrated and the financial benefits of the time and gas consumption savings achievable using X-dock are very substantial on an annual basis.
“Our system completes an automatic bump test in eight to fifteen seconds for a standard 4 gas monitor, and can do up to 1,000 tests with a 58 litre bottle of test gas, so the savings can be enormous.”
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Revolutionary Acoustic Gas Leak Detector
Detector Electronics Corporation (USA), global specialists in fire and gas safety systems, introduced its revolutionary FlexSonic Acoustic Gas Leak Detector recently. Detector Electronics Corporation (Det-Tronics) is part of UTC Climate, Controls & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
Designed to withstand the harshest environments, from arctic to tropical conditions, the FlexSonic detector is “a revolutionary step forward over traditional gas leak detectors,” said Jerry Slocum, managing director, Det-Tronics. “The FlexSonic detector is the first non-contact gas leak detector of its kind that recognises unique ultrasound ‘fingerprints,’” he said.
The FlexSonic detector analyses 24 discrete ultrasonic bands, ignoring nuisance ultrasonic sources. A high-fidelity microphone continuously monitors for the distinct ultrasound emitted by pressurised gas leaks across the widest spectrum of frequencies.
Unlike traditional non-contact gas leak detectors, the FlexSonic detector can be programmed to ignore background noises, discerning between gas leaks and environmental noises, such as metal-on-metal contact, fans, machinery or vehicles. For noisy applications, the FlexSonic detector learns both regularly occurring and random sounds, detecting the actual acoustic gas leak ‘signature.’
“This next-generation technology improves gas leak detection capabilities by recognising real leaks and reducing false positives,” said Michael Bragg, product group manager, Det- Tronics. “For potentially hazardous locations, the FlexSonic detector offers an additional layer of protection that compliments traditional gas leak detectors.”
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