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Multiparameter Monitor for Hire to Construction Industry


Casella’s (UK) BOUNDARY Guardian is now available for hire to the UK construction industry via an exclusive partnership with Mabey Hire’s Instrumentation division. This innovative web-based remote system is the first simultaneous multi-parameter dust, noise, wind speed and direction monitor from a single manufacturer in the UK. Designed for a wide range of applications, the BOUNDARY Guardian ensures compliance with regulatory limits, including Section 61 restrictions and PPG24 compliance, on construction or demolition sites.


The BOUNDARY Guardian compliments Mabey Hire Instrumentation’s expanding range of equipment that provides remote, web-based structural conditional monitoring for the construction industry in both permanent and temporary conditions. Real time data from the BOUNDARY Guardian can be accessed through any web browser at any time. Reports can also be produced to ensure regulatory compliance over a broader period. The system features a local alarm function that also emails site managers if safe dust or noise limits are exceeded.


Furthermore, the BOUNDARY Guardian utilises proven measurement with accuracy and sensitivity. It can report on noise parameters LAeq, LAmx, LA10 and LA90, particulate levels PM10, PM2.5 or TSP to a sensitivity of 1ug/m3


FLIR Systems (France) has produced an informative guide entitled ‘7 Things to Know When Selecting an IR Camera for Research & Development’.


Every day researchers around the world are looking for new methods to help them solve their scientific questions. Infrared thermography has proven to be an invaluable tool in solving a wide variety of scientific problems based on heat and temperature measurement.


Because of their non-intrusive analysis capabilities, thermography systems have become the defacto standard methodology for a growing range of Research & Development applications. In Research & Development - thermal imaging cameras are widely used for capturing thermal distribution data and recording temporal variations in real time. Infrared cameras are also used by engineers to see, and accurately measure, heat production or dissipation processes, thermal leakage and other temperature factors in equipment, products and processes.


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Compact and Reliable Air Quality Particle Mass Monitors


Countries across the globe have unique air quality monitoring regulations to characterise local air pollution. The goal of this air quality monitoring is to protect humans and the environment from harmful air pollution.


TSI (USA) Particle Instruments enable real-time air quality measurements of important metrics to help people better understand air quality. With a focus on minimal maintenance and low cost of ownership, TSI’s air quality monitoring instrumentation is reliable, easy to use in the field for both long term and short term deployments, and features research level accuracy.


TSI’s DustTrak Aerosol monitors provide simultaneous air quality measurements of PM1, PM2.5, PM Respirable, PM10 and Total PM in real- time without the use of cumbersome size-selective inlet conditioners.


Battery operation makes this instrument convenient, portable and affordable for air quality monitoring.


Major research groups and government air quality monitoring groups worldwide are successfully using the DustTrak DRX aerosol monitors for long term, continuous PM measurements.


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28549pr@reply-direct.com and wind speed and direction accuracy of +/-2%. It only requires fixing points and a power supply for installation, requires minimum maintenance and features a unique filter that allows for on-site calibration of dust.


“Because it allows customers to monitor site environments remotely, the BOUNDARY Guardian is a perfect fit for Mabey Hire Instrumentation’s range,” said Chris Carter, Commercial Director of Mabey Hire. “The BOUNDARY Guardian is a great tool for the construction industry including demolitions, waste transfer and roadside monitoring. It gives site and works managers total peace of mind that they will be informed of issues so they can take action and avoid costly disruption and later problems. Furthermore, if complaints are made about noise or dust onsite, the BOUNDARY Guardian gives them the data to prove compliance with regulations.”


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Casper, the specialist in web-based visualisation and monitoring software for the aviation industry and Cirrus Environmental (UK), a leading specialist in the design and manufacture of environmental noise monitoring solutions, today announced a partnership on airport noise monitoring.


Casper Noise: Casper’s web-based noise management solution provides a complete suite of functionalities for effective noise management. The intuitive design, effective cloud based system architecture and advanced automated analyses and reporting functionality provides users with the most effective tool to manage aircraft noise.


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The seamless integration of the new Cirrus Environmental Invictus noise monitor with Casper Noise creates a leading edge noise management system, designed for use across airports of any size. The Invictus is available in portable, semi-permanent and permanent versions to meet any application.


Both companies have also agreed to share each other’s global network to be able to provide worldwide customers with excellent local support.


“We are very excited about the opportunities resulting from this newly established partnership,” says Heleen Erkamp CEO of Casper. “We strongly believe that our customers will benefit hugely from our combined innovative strengths and customer oriented approach.”


Justin Barker, Sales Manager at Cirrus Environmental commented: “We are delighted to be able to announce this new partnership with Casper which allows us to bring to the market what we believe is the most effective and comprehensive airport noise monitoring system available.


It will provide our existing customers with a cost effective upgrade to their current systems as well as giving new customers access to the latest in noise measurement technology in the form of the Invictus.”


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Rapid and Reliable Gas Leak Monitoring at Natural Gas and Biogas Plants


The question of whether natural or biogas plants are safe or not largely depends on whether they are leak proof. Methane is not only a greenhouse gas which is 22 times stronger than CO2


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; it is also flammable, hazardous mixture when in contact with the ambient air. Therefore, leaks in gas plants


must be located and dealt with quickly and precisely in order to ensure the plant’s safe operation. Until now, it has been troublesome and time- consuming, not to mention cost-intensive, to detect gas leaks by using conventional flame ionisation or semiconductor gas detectors.


The GasCam SG model, from Esders (Germany), offers you rapid and efficient methane emissions inspection at natural gas and biogas plants. This instrument is significantly more compact, light, and user-friendly than other systems on the market. The GasCam SG, a mobile infrared detector measuring unit, offers a far quicker solution than conventional detection techniques by diagnosing gas leaks at plants in real time and providing the user with moving images of the escaping methane cloud; leaks, and the associated point of escape, are therefore discovered immediately. GasCam SG can be up to 100 metres away from the object being measured. Trials have now proven that very small gas releases can be discovered reliably by GasCam SG, even at locations where it was previously very difficult to determine methane emissions.


In the past, if a gas escape was discovered in an especially complex plant, its exact position could be determined by conducting a measurement from a second location. The time-consuming, successive point-by-point scanning and measuring of complex plants is thus a thing of the past. It is now possible to inspect great areas while simultaneously interpreting and documenting the measurement results within a few hours. Realtime moving images of the escaping gas cloud can be created by means of repeated measurements during the course of one second.


It is often desirable to be able to measure how much gas is escaping – to quantify the detected leak. Although this is not easy, even with the GasCam, the visual representation of the gas emissions has the advantage of providing an immediate estimate of the amount of gas released. Concentration measurements made using suitable monitoring devices can be taken to provide further information regarding the magnitude of the gas leaks.


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Specialist Companies Join Forces to Monitor Airport Noise


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