Let B3 Systems establish them based on your facility's actual performance.
Better alarm settings mean better leak detection, fewer nuisance alarms, more effective maintenance, and greater confidence in your compliance program.
B3 Systems - Independent Expertise for Particulate Monitoring & Compliance.
ASSESS → CHARACTERIZE → SET → DOCUMENT
Assess
Evaluate the baghouse, process, sensor installation, and operating conditions.
Characterize
Measure and establish the normal particulate signal and identify expected process variability.
Set
Develop alarm limits that provide meaningful leak detection without unnecessary nuisance alarms.
Document
Create a clear technical record supporting the selected alarm limits for ongoing compliance and future troubleshooting.
B3 Systems evaluates the complete monitoring application-including baghouse operation, process conditions, particulate characteristics, sensor installation, baseline emissions, and normal process variability-to determine alarm levels that provide early indication of bag failure while minimizing false or nuisance alarms.
More importantly, B3 Systems provides the technical documentation to support your alarm settings and compliance program. The result is a monitoring strategy that is technically sound, operationally practical, and easier to defend with Plant Management, Environmental personnel, Corporate EHS, and regulatory agencies.
Over the last 20 years, B3 Systems has developed softare programs and algorithms to handle the special conditions surrounding BLD alarm setup and evaluation.
Yet we still run into situations where is just takes man-hours of manual evaluation to get to the correct results.
Combining our operational experience of filters and baghouses with knowledge of EPA's requirements for setting bag leak detector (BLD) alarm limits is a perfect match.
The result is the easiest way to set-up your broken bag leak detector alarms.
In many cases, we also help identify filter related issues for our clients.
So contact us the next time you have questions about the BLD alarm setup for you baghouse or filter.
Phone: +1.919.790.9090
Fax: +1.919.790.0550
Address: 3208 Spottswood St., STE 106, Raleigh, NC 27615
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