B 5.4 - PbS-based Detector for Industrial Fire Prevention - a Hidden Champion
- Event
- SMSI 2023
2023-05-08 - 2023-05-11
Nürnberg - Band
- Lectures
- Chapter
- B5 - IV-VI - Infrared Photodetectors - Technology & Applications
- Author(s)
- M. Mehlhorn, M. Haas, N. Vespermann - Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG, Alfeld (Germany)
- Pages
- 123 - 124
- DOI
- 10.5162/SMSI2023/B5.4
- ISBN
- 978-3-9819376-8-8
- Price
- free
Abstract
Lead sulfide-based spark detectors have been successfully used for more than four decades to safely detect highly mobile ignition sources in pneumatic transport, protecting countless industrial plants and human lives from fire and explosion incidents. The physics of infrared radiation, targeted field measurements and simulations are used to classify ignition sources in pneumatic transport into four types and to describe their detection reliability with established sensor materials even under high loads.