Pfaudler, an international supplier of glass-lined reactors, storage vessels, columns, mixer systems, instrumentation and reglassing services, has launched a portable corrosion detector to inspect glass-lined vessels.
The company says the lightweight (390g) detector quickly discovers damage that could lead to product contamination or large-scale, costly glass repair, but has none of the time-consuming drawbacks of conventional detectors. Standard glass monitoring equipment, for example, can emit numerous false alarms when finding a conductive link between the product and the equipotential bonding system that is not actually caused by glass damage. Pfaudler’s CDP, on the other hand, operates on impedance analysis, only emitting genuine alarms as its measuring electrodes ignore irrelevant electrochemical reactions.
Pfaudler’s CDP is also suitable for potentially explosive atmospheres and plastic or rubber-coated parts within reactors. It benefits from an internal memory and USB for documenting results.