Do you have the right equipment for your LDAR program? If you are not using an Archer Field PC with your flame ionization detector, then you don’t. And more importantly, if you are not using an Archer Field PC paired together with a phx21, you surely don’t have the best of the best in fugitive […]
Method 21 requires that the analyzer used for compliance generated LDAR monitoring be certified as intrinsically safe. Do the VOC analyzers in use in your facility satisfy this requirement? Are you sure? There is a reason that OSHA and the entire thrust of the last 50 years of industrial safety recognizes that intrinsic safety is […]
Guardian Compliance and LDARtools® Announce Change in License and Distribution Agreement Houston, TX, September 4, 2013 – Guardian Compliance, Inc. (“Guardian”) and LDARtools, Inc. (“LDARtools®”) jointly announced today that the companies have agreed that Guardian will transition from being the exclusive licensee and distributor of LDARtools® software products to a preferred licensee and distributor of LTI’s suite […]
Our partners at Juniper Systems have provided us here at LDARtools valuable feedback to the sometimes dreaded project of applying a screen protector to mobile handhelds. We have all experienced the damage caused to touchscreens during LDAR monitoring when a screen protector is not properly installed…let’s reduce the repair costs and downtime by doing it […]
While is not a rare occurrence, having over 300 phx21s in service and not a single phx21 to repair is something we are very proud of! Here is the proof! What are we doing in the mean time? Building phx21 and shipping your supplies. This year alone, we have sold over 35,000 filters! This includes […]
Intrinsic Safety and your LDAR Technicians In our last blog, I ended by pointing out that when the Intrinsic Safety of LDAR equipment is compromised, very bad things can happen. The worse of these things is that the Technicians who are asked to use the analyzers are put at risk. For everyone who has seen […]
(This blog is based on a joint presentation given by Alan Mata and me at the recent ISA LDAR Symposium held in New Orleans, La.) As a result of specific, recent events, the intrinsic safety of the fleet of VOC analyzers in use at many sites may be at risk. For several years, expense and […]
Happy Friday! We recently had a new metal building built to house inventory and the machine shop. The county required that we build retention, for drainage purposes. While we could have stopped at the above and likely met the requirements- that would be pretty boring. In true LDARtools fashion- we kept digging. Of course, it […]
Tips from Techs features real maintenance and repair issues – with real solutions from LDARtools’ very own repair technicians. Hello from LDARtools Repair Shop, Here’s a quick tip to avoid a costly mistake to your phx21 and your charger. When connecting the charger to the phx21, always line the charger up correctly before trying to […]
Colin did an Fantastic job presenting at this years ISA LDAR symposium. The presentation was a fresh and entertaining reminder that we are in this business to not only comply with the LDAR reguations but to actually find and FIX leaks. Checkout the following clip: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lF598Cps4]
