RTS Africa Engineering is offering a highly versatile hand-held detection device to serve as a valuable safety aid in hydrogen (H2) gas detection within battery charging stations in underground mines.
Increasingly, mines are using battery-powered electric vehicles underground as they help eliminate the problem of air pollution from diesel exhaust emissions. However, there is also an inherent risk in having large multi-battery charging bays underground. The charging process generates H2, which escapes from the banks of batteries on charge to form a potentially explosive mix. This could result in a potentially catastrophic H2 gas explosion – constituting a very real health and safety risk in the process.
In addition, in a ‘fiery’ mine such as a colliery for example, H2 combustion may potentially trigger a more serious secondary coal-dust explosion.
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