HUNTER Tracer Gas - 251230
Description
Forming gas has been used for a long time to locate leaks that cannot be found with the standard methods, electro-acoustic leak detection or correlation. With this method (also called tracer gas), the gas (5 vol.% hydrogen and 95 vol.% nitrogen) is injected into the pipeline under pressure.
It is then transported through the water pipe and escapes through the leak after a short time. The hydrogen contained in the forming gas is lighter than air and rises upwards. At the surface, it can be easily detected with the HUNTER Tracer Gas and corresponding probes and the leak can be localized in this way. The method offers advantages when acoustic methods reach their limits, e.g. due to increasing noise pollution from road traffic and plastic pipelines. It also saves expensive and time-consuming excavations at suspected leakage points.
Technical data
Display | LCD graphic display with 240 x 160 pixels; with touchscreen functionality; illuminated; display of measured value, maximum value and bar chart |
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Power supply | Lithium-ion 3,6 V, 6.700 mAh |
Charging | 230 V power supply unit or car adapter, 12 V, approx. 5 hours |
Operating time | > 10 hours (without illumination) |
Operating temperature | -10 °C to +50 °C |
Data storage | > 2.000.000 measured values |
Protection | IP52 |
Dimensions | 205 x 105 x 86 mm incl. connection nipple |
Weight | approx. 1.115 g |
Measurement principle | semiconductor, thermal conductivity |
Measuring ranges | 0 to 1.000 ppm H2, resolution: up to 0,1 ppm 0,1 to 5,0 vol.% H2, resolution: 0,1 vol.% |
Pump capacity | > 40 l/h, > 300 mbar |