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How 5% Hydrogen

gives you100% quality.

• Worlds’ leading specialist in Leak Testing based on the Hydrogen Method

• Started 1981 by scientists from Linköping Technical University

• First applications for telecom 1985 •

• Outside Plant - leak detectors

(mainly telecom)

• Industry - leak test instruments

• Industry - leak test systems

• Agency

Business Areas

Some of our customers

• ABB• Airbus• Akzo Nobel• BASF• BMW• Bayer• Behr• Boehringer• Bosch • Braun• British Telecom• Carrier• China Telecom• Daimler Chrysler• Daalderop• Deutsche Telekom• Electrolux • Eurocopter• Ford• France Telecom

• General Motors• GTI• Hella • Honeywell • Hitachi • Honeywell • Hong Kong Telecom• John Deere• M.O.D. UK• Nissan• Parker• Philips• Porsche• Renault• Roche• Rolls Royce• SAAB• SCANIA• Shell• Suzuki• Telmex

• Toyota• TÜV• Valeo• Verizon• Volkswagen• Volvo• Whirlpool• Yamaha

Why Hydrogen?

• The lightest gas of all• Lowest viscosity of all gases (easy to fill,

evacuate and dissipate) • Low background (0.5 ppm)

• Environmentally friendly, sustainable

• Much cheaper than helium

• Non flammable (when diluted 5% in N2)

• Non toxic - non corrosive

Hydrogen Instrument advantages

• Simple and robust for industrial use• No vacuum pumping

• No need to draw sample into the detector

• Flexible design

• Easy to calibrate

• No maintenance

When simple methods are not good enough and mass-specs are too complicated...

Complexity

WaterSoap Pr.DecayMethod

HeliumHydrogen

When to use Hydrogen?

Hydrogen vs Pressure Decay

The Hydrogen Method... • can locate leaks• is independent of variations in

temperature• is perfect for testing soft objects• is independent of size of test

objects’ internal volume• has a higher sensitivity

(Pressure Decay from 10-2 ml/s Hydrogen Method from 5x10-7 ml/s)

Hydrogen vs Helium

Hydrogen vs Helium

Locating leaks in...• Buried and ducted cables

• Aerial cables

• Pipes and ducts

• In-house heating pipes

Outside Plant

Industry - instruments

• Manual Leak Location• Manual & Automatic

Leak Testing

Industry – Leak Test Systems

• Sniffer clamp test• Accumulation chamber

test (integral test)• Scanning

• Pump Method

Sniffer clamp

Example: Clamp over welded joint

Leak

Detector H2000 PLUS

Sampling Probe AP29Gas in

Accumulation chamber

Test chamber -simple hood, simple sealsno pressure or vacuum)

Test object -fixed with seals

Dead volume (air) -should be minimized

Air circulationand sampling

Products - Outdoor Leak Locating

Hydrogen Leak Detector 9012 XRS

Accessories

• Surface Probe

• Ground Probe

• Duct Probe

• Ear phones

• Wheel Unit

• Fan

H2000 PLUS Hydrogen Leak Detector

Accessories

• AP55 Sniffer Probe

• AP57 Counter Flow Probe

• TGF10 Tracer Gas Filler

• ILS500 Leak Detection System

Products - Manual leak detection

Products – Automatic leak testing

• H2000(-P) PLUS Hydrogen Leak Detector + AP29 Sampling Probe

• AP33 Hydrogen Sampler

Products – ATEX

• Extrima® Hydrogen Leak DetectorIntrinsically safe (Ex)

How 5% Hydrogen

gives you100% quality.

Info: www.leakcontrol.nlE-mail: [email protected]