One of the leading manufacturers in safety technology, Dräger, is celebrating the success of its Dräger Tubes, after more than 100 million tubes have been sold worldwide in the past decade.
The company describes the Dräger Tubes as ‘a laboratory behind glass’ –
a leading example of a short-term gas measurement system. For more than seven decades, Dräger, has been pioneering the way forward in tube manufacture and the high volume of sales is testimony to the satisfaction of its customers.
The Dräger Tubes are a cost-effective, flexible and reliable method of measurement, proving themselves a million times over and used all over the world.
They are often used in sectors such as chemical or pharmaceutical, where a diverse range of gas hazards in the plant or laboratory situations, regularly calls for on-the-spot measurement. More than 220 short-term tubes are available for measuring up to 500 gases and this number is growing year on year. As changing environmental conditions, new legal regulations and special customer requirements come into play, new and more sensitive tubes are being developed all the time.
Kevin Honner, from Dräger, said: “We are committed to offering safety solutions that really make a difference to our customers, and I believe this has played a big part in the Dräger Tubes’ success over the past decade.
“Where gas safety is concerned, the tubes’ measurement system plays a pioneering role and we’re forward-thinking in that new technology is being continually developed around our customers’ requirements.
Dräger Tubes provide results immediately after measurement, so there is no need to send samples into a lab for analysis. There is also no need for calibration by the user – the calibration is shown in the form of a scale printed on the tube.
The tubes represent one of the classic forms of gas analysis and their versatility makes for countless applications in industry, firefighting, disaster prevention, laboratory work, environmental protection and many other areas which require measurement results to be instantly available so that decisions can be made.
The ‘tube’ itself is a sealed glass vial, which contains a solid carrier material – a chemical reagent which reacts to particular gases or vapours, with a characteristic colour change. To cause this reaction, a defined volume of ambient air is drawn through using a Dräger Tube pump. Even small quantities of gas are sufficient, and the user can easily read and analyse the result because of the scale marks printed on the tube. The tubes have a variety of usages from determination of concentration peaks, to detection of possible leakages, as well as the analysis of air in sewers, shafts, chemical tanks or other confined spaces.
In applications where individual measurements or low measurement frequencies are sufficient, Dräger Tubes have advantages compared to electronic measurement equipment and are comparatively inexpensive to purchase and very easy to use.
Dräger is committed to offering customers a full safety solution and the Tubes go hand in hand with the company’s training offer, service, maintenance and rentals, and bespoke product offer – based around customer requirements.
For more information about Dräger in the UK, visit www.draeger.com