Safety professionals sometimes forget that carbon dioxide is a toxic gas with a strictly defined Occupational Exposure Limit. The safest approach is to measure CO2 directly when the gas is present in...
Growth in Biogas Electricity Generation The generation of electricity from biogas is becoming ever more popular, driven at least in part by the introduction of government set feedin tariffs and other...
Technology is a wonderful thing and one of its greatest gifts is the ability to make our lives easier, saving us time that we would have previously spent undertaking tasks manually. When it comes to b...
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge and Alphasense Ltd in Braintree, England has developed highly portable, low-power, low-cost instruments for volcanic gas detection and measurement....
As with all things in life, evolution is constant and the gas detection industry is no exception. Looking back to the origins of the industry over 60 years ago, the first groundbreaking devices develo...
Mounting energy costs will drive development of fossilfuels alternatives, and mounting taxes on landfill, its avoidance. New products will be needed. Geotech’s new product team is already busy....
It’s amazing how much technology is involved in delivering the humble tomato to the Great British Public’s salad bowl. A fact that Hitech Instruments recently discovered when asked to sup...
July 2009 will be remembered as a sad, yet memorable month for the gas detection industry in the UK. Two founders of this industry both passed away in the same weekend. Paul Gotley founded Neotronics...
Protection of high risk, valuable assets and personnel has never been more vital. Such installations include oil & gas plant (onshore & offshore), petrochemical plant, hazardous material han...
Pellistor gas sensors have been used for several decades to monitor the presence of combustible gases. They provide a measure of the combustibility of the environment in which they are placed and...