Gas detection: Specialty gases and cylinder filling facilities in focus

Whilst ASUs and SMRs are high value assets, they are also highly automated and relatively few people are in contact with the process equipment during normal operation.

Many of the people employed in the industrial gases sector work on cylinder filling plants. These are often highly manual operations where the workforce spends much of their day in proximity to potentially hazardous gases. The hazards are similar to ASU and SMR operations: oxygen is core to medical cylinder gases; hydrogen and nitrogen are used in industrial cylinder gases; and carbon monoxide is commonly used on specialty gas cylinder filling sites.