AMS Equipment | Making Dangerous Work Safer | Crowcon Case Study

Published 03 Nov 2023

AMS Equipment Safety | Crowcon Gas Detection

Equipment Safety

The distiller recently built a new innovation centre which is being used for the development of new whiskies. The new gas monitoring system was required for this building.

The primary target gases were ethanol (which is a by-product of whisky production) and carbon dioxide (which is a byproduct of the fermentation process).The distillery site presented several challenges. It was a noisy environment, included multiple ATEX zones, and had substantial potential for gas leaks.

In addition, Crowcon’s new gas monitoring system had to include sounders and beacons place at various points around the site. As well as the appropriate outputs from the control panel to alert staff to alarms.

Moreover, the distillery specified that their new gas detection system should protect employees, alert staff to any gas leaks and alert staff to any issues with process (for example, where a process may cause a gas leak).

Crowcon Gas Detection

Gas Detection

More importantly, Crowcon focus on gas detection by understanding current and future market requirements and responding accordingly. Crowcon’s vision is to protect people and the environment from gas hazards by providing both single and multi gas monitors, enabling personal and larger-scale monitoring.

Crowcon operates globally through a network of regional offices and authorised channel partners. To support the Crowcon ethos, they take care to recruit the best talent and invest in people by providing opportunities to develop and learn.

T&D distribute Gas Detectors, Gas Monitors & Equipment (Portable & Fixed) for the monitoring of toxic and flammable gases in industrial and hazardous areas – this includes Crowcon.

T&D sales engineers can specify safe gas detection equipment for any industrial application; including ATEX & IECEx certified gas detectors for use in Zone 1 and Zone 2 hazardous areas in the oil, gas and petrochem industries.

Outcome of Using the Gas Detectors

To create the new system, AMS used an innovative combination of two Crowcon products. To manage the presence of carbon dioxide they used the XGard IR, an explosion-proof gas detector with a dual-wavelength infrared sensor that gives highly reliable detection of hazardous gases and vapours.

Xgard IR offers the many advantages of infrared sensor technology in a rugged and versatile package. It provides fail-safe sensor technology, is immune to poisoning and damage by over-gasing, and is sensitive and quickly responsive.

Meanwhile, the ethanol is monitored via the XGard Bright with MPS™ sensor which, thanks to the use of MPS™ technology, simultaneously monitors multiple gases with TrueLEL™ accuracy. The XGard Bright with MPS™ requires no calibration for 5 years whilst being coupled with an extended-life battery, greatly reduces associated disruption and downtime, leaving the distillery free to develop new whiskies in peace.

Crowcon Xgard Bright

XGARD Bright

The flameproof (Exd) detector is housed within the high-grade aluminium alloy or 316 stainless steel enclosure. Certifications include gas and dust approvals for ATEX and IECEX with UL gas certification in progress.

Furthermore, the Xgard Bright is a versatile platform offering flammable and toxic gas detection and oxygen monitoring, while providing ease of operation and reduced installation costs.

However, the Xgard Bright comes with an Alarm and Fault relay as standard as well as optional HART communications.

Lowering the cost of installation, the 4-wire addressable implementation drastically reduces cabling requirements. Likewise the large OLED display allows users to easily work with Xgard Bright whilst installing, calibrating and routine maintenance without the need to open the housing.

The benefits of MPS Sensor Technology

No Poisoning
Less False Alarms
Hydrogen Ready
Reduction in Masked alarms
Multi-gas Protection
Eliminating Operational Disruption
Hazard Protection

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Hazardous area industries including offshore oil/gas platforms and FPSOs, onshore oil refineries, processing plants, pipelines, storage farms and LPG/LNG plants.

They all utilise or produce a wide range of hazardous flammable liquids and gases which can be detected using correctly specified flame and gas detectors.

Detecting toxic and flammable gases requires the detectors to be classified and certified according to the specific IECEx or ATEX standard – we distribute flame and fire detectors manufactured by Spectrex to operate in the harshest environmental conditions including self-contained stand-alone devices designed for direct connection to control and alarm systems or automatic fire extinguishing systems.

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