Yokogawa Electric Corporation and GasSecure, Dräger-owned company, have delivered world’s first SIL2-certified wireless gas detection system for use at an LNG production facility in Northern Europe
This system uses GasSecure’s GS01 wireless gas detectors to measure hydrocarbon gas concentrations. Using the ISA100 Wireless communications protocol, the GS01 establishes a link with a Yokogawa YFGW510 access point and sends data to a host system via a Yokogawa YFGW410 field wireless management station. Although the GS01 uses a low-power infrared sensor, which is very efficient, it has a very fast response time. This capability of the GS01 and the utilisation of dual redundant communications by Yokogawa’s field wireless products make them essential components for the construction of a fast and highly reliable monitoring solution, according both companies.
The two companies would soon begin promoting the unique capabilities of this system solution to firms that have a strong interest in maintaining safe and secure operations.
Yokogawa has been developing a wide variety of ISA100 Wireless technologies and field wireless devices such as adapters that enable conventional wired devices to access wireless networks, and provides them to plants and other facilities primarily in the upstream oil and gas sector.
GasSecure has developed ISA100 Wireless gas detectors that can detect leaks of explosive hydrocarbon gases and are certified for compliance with the ATEX directive and the IECEx Certified Equipment Scheme, and installs them on offshore oil and gas drilling platforms, tank farms and industrial plants.
In 2014, GasSecure and Yokogawa also concluded an agreement under which the two companies jointly developed a wireless gas detection system that would meet their customers' requirements.
