Refrigeration Gas Monitoring Solutions
Refrigerant leaks in mechanical equipment rooms can lead to significant loss of refrigerant, additional energy costs and dangerous health implications to occupants.
The food and beverage industry commonly relies on ammonia refrigeration to provide consumers high quality, edible food and cold drinks. Ammonia leak in a cold storage or freezer room can pose a serious health threat and result in spoiled food and other expensive losses.
Thus, a fixed gas detection system permanently installed near the chiller equipment in an area where a refrigerant leak is most likely to concentrate will ensure to alert and keep people safe.
In partnership with Critical Environment Technologies (Canada), Kenelec Scientific offers a wide range of hazardous gas detection systems designed to monitor Refrigerants, Ammonia (NH3) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) for mechanical equipment rooms, cold storage, chiller rooms varying in size, height and layout.
Key considerations to monitor gas for refrigeration systems:
- Ammonia gas detectors should be mount on or near the ceiling above the potential leak area; Refrigerants gas detectors should be mounted 25 cm to 45 cm off the floor.
- Each chiller requires its own dedicated gas detector to monitor for loss of ammonia or refrigerant by leakage
- Outside the chiller room should be a Controller with a strobe and manual shut off switch to meet code requirements
- Remote display connected to a remote horn/strobe should be mounted outside each door that accesses the machinery room
Explore CET’s refrigeration system applications in different chiller room’s layouts:
