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Aviation fuel vapour monitoring at an airport
Laser-based remote detection of fuel vapour across an open apron, where a point sensor covers too little ground.
The setting
Fuel handling at an airport happens in the open, across an apron far larger than any indoor facility. A leak from a hydrant pit or a tanker connection disperses into open air rather than accumulating in a room.
Why it is difficult
Point detection assumes the gas will come to the sensor. Outdoors, vapour drifts with the wind, so a single fixed point covers a small fraction of the area that matters.
What was deployed
Open-path laser detection across the fuel handling area, scanning the volume between the detector and a reflector rather than sampling at one point.
Outcome
Coverage of a linear path instead of a single point. Detection range and response time to be confirmed against the delivered unit.
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