The substance used by petrochemical industry are mostly organic volatile. Due to the process requires the large number of pipe fittings and equipment components, there is a high probability of fugitive emission occurred. This can not only cause the loss of raw material and also bring out other environmental problems. FTIR can be used to screen over a great range of area and point out the potential leaking area, so we can further provide the suitable maintenance guidelines.
As for petrochemical industrial zone, you may take advantage of the FTIP real-time weather monitoring capabilities in order to build the monitoring firewall. This can, in addition, provide the information of the air quality conditions in the neighbourhood.
Extractive FTIR share the less measuring space, which is suitable for gaseous pollutants or discharge piping in the factory machine. Extractive FTIR has the ability to simultaneously and instantaneously detect a variety of gas types. This will help the engineers to understand the reaction mechanism of the process and the type/concentration of the pollutants, and to provide the basis of considerations in the choice of waste gas treatment equipments.
In the other hand, OP-FTIR is applied to monitor for the indoor air abnormality of semiconductor plants. It can evaluate the characteristics of polutants’ flow distribution, in order to maintain the safety of the staff members.
The current tools used for analysis the material composision of the environments is often by GC/MS, however, the shortcoming of this equipment is the non-direct readings that cannot provide an instant messaging. FTIR can compensate for the above drawbacks, and also provies an alternative analytical technique of choice.
The domestic Environmental Protection Adiministration has been listen the remote-sensing technology as one of the fugitive pollutnats screening methods for the petrochemical industry sites.
During the normal operation, the workers are mostly exposed in a centration that is usually within the allowable concentration standards. The exposure concentration would exceed the allowable concentration standward only in an abnormal circumstnace or during a preventive maintenance. FTIR monitoring not only provides the instantaneous and the average concentration readings, but also helps the factory to effectively monitor the occurrence of toxic leakage or the instant high concentration exposure in order to immediately react or reduce the harm of accidents.
By using the FTIR non-contact analysis, it can identify the unknown compounds and their real-time characteristic. This analysis method is also suitable for obtaining the message when emergency occurs.
