Detection – Future Technologies and Applications

Leigh Greenham – CoGDEM

CoGDEM Council of Gas Detection & Environmental Monitoring Founded in 1974, now 50 member companies Members are manufacturers and service providers in the field of gas detection HSE and BSI attend CoGDEM meetings Protecting everything from the smallest bedsit, caravan or tent to the largest offshore oil and gas platform or refinery Key role in writing standards

Gas Detectors

Domestic CO alarms Electronic Combustion Gas Analysers (aka Flue Gas Analysers FGAs) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Gas Detectors

Typical CO alarms from CoGDEM member companies

CO Alarm Product development

New generations of electrochemical gas sensors Long-life batteries Increased portability Communications Low concentration displays

CO Alarm Standards development

Tough standards for CO alarms now revised. EN 50291 (construction and testing of domestic CO alarms)

now split into: EN 50291-1 as before for domestic dwellings

EN 50291-2 new tests for recreational vehicles

EN 50292 user guidance being updated for 2013 version, covering recreational vehicles usage, low-concentration displays etc.

New Applications for CO alarms

Void Monitoring Low concentration indication – from 10ppm Gas shut-off systems Wireless interlinks Datalogging Travel alarms

New Applications for CO alarms

New Proactive Campaigning

UK Fire & Rescue Service endorsement CFOA – Chief Fire Officers Association Capita – organisation running Gas Safe Register

Launched June 13

Summary 2 Ideally choose CO alarms from one of the following brands, their EN 50291 compliance is verified by CoGDEM

Flue Gas Analysers

New user assessments: 2012 – CPA1 mandatory 2013 – CMDDA1 option 2014 – mandatory measurements of the combustion performance of new boiler installations

New Applications for Flue Gas Analysers

New Applications for Flue Gas Analysers

New Applications for CO PPE for workers

Gas Distribution Networks now equipping their First Call Operatives with industrial-grade CO monitors Blue Light emergency service users

Future innovative technologies

Low cost flexible plastic gas detectors MIT Media Lab & new UK project from Oct 13

Screen-printed electronic gas sensors i-Phone plug-ins Development of CO ‘sponge’ materials

Detection – Future Technologies and Applications

Leigh Greenham – CoGDEM