One hundred Crowcon Nimbus flameproof (Exd) hydrocarbon gas detectors have been installed at Cairn Energy’s Mangala oil and gas processing terminal in Rajasthan, India. Supplied via Larson & Toubro, the Nimbus units are located at strategic locations throughout the facility and ensure the safety of workers and equipment by detecting elevated levels of flammable hydrocarbon gases.
“Hydrocarbon gas detectors are required by local legislation,” commented Crowcon’s Indian distributor, Mr Kishore Degwekar of Detection Instruments Pvt. Ltd. “Our customer Larsen and Toubro, purchased the Nimbus detectors as they are certified by the Indian Directorate General of Mines Safety”.
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In few applications is safety as important as on offshore oil and gas platforms.
As recently reported in the national news, a four-mile exclusion zone has been set up around the Elgin Total platform in the North Sea and workers have been evacuated due to an explosive gas cloud.
Explosive hazards from hydrocarbon gases and vapours are an ever-present risk, whilst toxic hydrogen sulphide gas and depleted oxygen environments can pose significant risks to personnel. Gas detectors are therefore essential to provide dependable early warning of gas hazards. They are permanently installed in strategic locations around fixed installations and as many as 700 may be installed on a single offshore platform.
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Crowcon’s IRmax detector uses STAY-CLIR optical coating
When choosing flammable gas detectors, users want them to withstand the most rigorous conditions, prevent signal faults and welcome any other obstacles that the instrument may face.
IRmax is an ultra-compact, dual-wavelength, infrared (IR) flammable gas detector which delivers rapid, fail-safe detection of methane gas and other potentially explosive hydrocarbons in the harshest environments. Crowcon’s third generation of IR detector platform, and building on their 15 years of experience with the technology, IRmax also features an important innovation to reduce power consumption and maintenance.
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Twenty Halma Operations Directors visited Crowcon in February to learn about Crowcon’s Operational Excellence programme, Showroom Manufacturing and flexible production cells.
The parent group of Crowcon, £520m Halma PLC is a group of companies that produce specialist products used to protect lives, or improve the quality of life, for individuals and businesses worldwide.
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