Detects gas
May 1st 2005 To protect staff from the danger of depleted oxygen levels, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has installed Crowcon gas detectors and a Gasmaster control panel. The panel displays oxygen levels in all testing cleanrooms simultaneously on an LCD for at-a-glance system status.
Spacecraft and satellite components are subjected to extreme temperature and vacuum conditions.
Chambers are returned to atmospheric pressure by introducing nitrogen that, if it leaked at this time, could result in rapid oxygen depletion.
Four gas monitors ensure that should this happen, the control panel instantly advises which detector has been activated with a visual signal such as ‘Vacuum chamber 1’. There will also be a warning from a multi-tone sounder. More articles from Crowcon Detection Instruments Ltd: | 
