Gas cylinders are essential in many places where industrial gases are used, from manufacturing to healthcare. These cylinders store compressed gases under high-pressure which can be used to power tools, operate machinery and provide medical treatments. However, the high-pressure inside gas cylinders also makes them potentially dangerous if they are not properly maintained.
Testing gas cylinders is essential to ensure safety and reliability. Usually, cylinders are tested every 3 to 5 or 10 years, depending on the application. One challenge faced by companies is testing gas cylinders that are located in different locations within a facility. It can be time consuming and labor intensive task, especially for companies with a large number of cylinders or cylinders thar are located in different parts of the facility. Additionally, it can be dangers to move gas cylinders, especially if they are not properly secured.
In this case, companies can consider using a portable testing unit they can be brought to the cylinder locations. This can eliminate the need to move the cylinders to a central testing location, which is safer and can save time and money.
As a partner to industrial gas suppliers worldwide, a global industrial gas giant and leading provider of essential gases, needed a way to streamline their cylinder testing process.
With such a massive footprint and impact on the world’s gas supplies, cylinder testing on site is vital, and as demand continues to grow, so too does the need for more efficiency.
When performing testing, the company’s expert service engineers typically place equipment within service vehicles. However, their primary challenge lay in safely transporting the large cylinders from the vehicle to the testing area and back again.
For pressure testing the cylinders, or the pressure relief valves (PRV), they use a range of pressures typically between 20 and 200 bar, and occasionally reaching up to 400 bar. Although they discovered they could use trolley-mounted small cylinders for pressures up to 200 bar, they still needed a solution for larger cylinders that required higher pressures.
So, they turned to Haskel, who worked closely with the company’s internal teams and carefully considered every nuance of the challenge before coming up with a comprehensive solution for both low- and high-pressure testing scenarios: portable booster cases.