Different plants, different hazards
A paint booth’s dominant risk is a flammable atmosphere. A foundry’s is heat that would destroy the instrument before it destroyed anything else. A welding shop’s most interesting problem is that the arc looks like a fire to an optical sensor. These pages take each environment on its own terms, and say where this system is the wrong instrument.
- Chemical processingChemical processing concentrates several hazard classes in one place: flammable solvent vapour, toxic gas, and reactions that generate their own heat.Flammable solvent vapourExothermic runawayToxic gas release
- Paint & coatingsPaint and coating work is dominated by one hazard: flammable solvent vapour, produced continuously and deliberately.Flammable atmosphere in spray boothsMixing and decanting vapourSolvent storage
- Plastics & rubberPlastics and rubber processing runs hot by design - extruder barrels and injection moulds operate at temperatures where the material itself begins to degrade if control is lost.Barrel and mould overheatingThermal degradation fumesHydraulic oil fires
- Foundry & metal castingA foundry's dominant hazards are carbon monoxide and heat, and the second one is also the reason monitoring is difficult: the areas of greatest risk are the areas most hostile to the instrument.Carbon monoxideExtreme radiant heatMoisture and molten metal
- Welding & fabricationA fabrication shop's monitoring problem is unusual: the hazard and the normal work look almost identical to a sensor.Fuel and shielding gas leaksHot work fireWelding fume
- Food processingFood processing carries a hazard profile that surprises people who associate it with hygiene rather than danger: ammonia refrigeration systems, CO2 in enclosed spaces, and combustible dust from flour, sugar and starch.Ammonia refrigeration leaksCO2 accumulationCombustible dust
- Textile & dyeingTextile operations split into two very different monitoring problems.Lint and cotton dust fireMachinery overheatingDye-house chemical vapour
Where this system is the wrong instrument
Worth stating once, on the index, rather than only in the small print of each page. Alfa HazardX has no certification of any kind. It must not be installed inside a classified hazardous area, it does not measure LEL percentage, it does not detect ammonia, CO2 or oxygen depletion, and its gas figures are self-calibrated rather than traceable to a reference gas. Where an industry needs any of those, it needs a different instrument - and several of these pages say so directly.