Industrial Hydrocarbon Leak Detection

Following recent environmental disasters relating to oil storage tanks, many industries are pushed to equip their facilities with oil spill detectors for safety reasons or to comply with the regulations.

In refineries, storage facilities and airports, hydrocarbons are stored in tanks. Most of them are equipped with a retaining pool which can fill up with rain water.

A detector is usually installed at the lowest point of this retaining pool to detect any pollutants, just before discharge.

For over 20 years, Néréïdes (France) has supplied solutions to detect leakage in the retaining pools, surrounding the storage tanks to retain the oil in case of overflow, leakage or mishandling.

Simple, robust and selective; the Oilspy detector can easily be linked to fire or gas detection systems. Néréïdes offers many accessories and can customise them to fit the customer’s application.

In the event of a hydrocarbon-related leak, it will trigger an alarm to ensure rapid intervention, thus avoiding disaster and high cleaning costs.