Hazmat Drone ?

[PWidmayer]

Looking for agencies that use drones in hazmat response. Is a drone just for oversight or can you do more? Monitoring with a drone, thermal drone - what is your vision of the best hazmat drone?

 

[TreeLineView]

A drone can be a great asset to Hazmat response. An RGB camera can be launched from a safe distance outside the hazard zone and quickly identify any UN or other identifying placards on the outside of a barrel or tanker that may have flipped, giving responders heads-up on what they may be dealing with prior to suiting up. With a good thermal sensor, you can evaluate spill zone and quantity as well as remaining liquid still in any damaged tanker or container. Thermal sensors can't detect the level of gas, but under some circumstances, they can detect the uncontrolled release of liquified flammables. Liquified flammables being released under uncontrolled circumstances (A leak) create a chemical reaction which results in a extreme decrease in temp which under the right circumstances can be detected by a thermal sensor

The attached thermogram (Raw and not tuned) is of the water tank behind my house. The distinct line near the top of the tank is the level of water. This tank is almost completely full. FYI Further tuning helped to determine that the mixer was in good working order and that there was not visible sediment build up in the tank

 

[TreeLineView]

Correction. I meant to say "pressurized" flammables like natural gas

 

[PWidmayer]

We have a thermal imaging camera in our tool box but no one has been properly trained in thermography. Point and shoot looks easy but we should be trained in how to read the image better. Anyway thanks for the response. I do appreciate it.

 

[Phaedrus]

I'm an environmental consultant. We use a drone in our work to do initial documentation of a site, monitor job progress, and to document completion. We do a lot of excavation of contaminated soils and some of the sites can be fairly large. The drone helps cover a site, especially on initial site visits.

We are also doing some oilfield work and are documenting several oil production sites in urban areas and may move into doing some fugitive emissions monitoring (mostly methane) in the future.

For straight up incident response a drone is a great tool to obtain a rapid high quality view of what is going on from a variety of angles. After that the type of incident will dictate what tasks a drone may be helpful with.

 

[PWidmayer]

Drones are great tools and every day there is a new task added to the portfolio. Now with Pix4d React quick incident mapping can happen. Thanks for the information.

 

[LUIS MARTINEZ]

Looking for agencies that use drones in hazmat response. Is a drone just for oversight or can you do more? Monitoring with a drone, thermal drone - what is your vision of the best hazmat drone?

RFRD brings air assets to chemical plant fire

Got a mutual aid call out to assist the City of Coolidge (AZ) last night. Eight FDs responded. Only RFRD (yours truly) provided UAS support...

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[Earthman]

A drone can be a great asset to Hazmat response. An RGB camera can be launched from a safe distance outside the hazard zone and quickly identify any UN or other identifying placards on the outside of a barrel or tanker that may have flipped, giving responders heads-up on what they may be dealing with prior to suiting up. With a good thermal sensor, you can evaluate spill zone and quantity as well as remaining liquid still in any damaged tanker or container. Thermal sensors can't detect the level of gas, but under some circumstances, they can detect the uncontrolled release of liquified flammables. Liquified flammables being released under uncontrolled circumstances (A leak) create a chemical reaction which results in a extreme decrease in temp which under the right circumstances can be detected by a thermal sensor

The attached thermogram (Raw and not tuned) is of the water tank behind my house. The distinct line near the top of the tank is the level of water. This tank is almost completely full. FYI Further tuning helped to determine that the mixer was in good working order and that there was not visible sediment build up in the tank

Interesting photo of the water tank.

I know a guy who managed a team at Hughes Aircraft in the ‘70s that developed FLIR technology or adapted it for military targeting applications. On test flights they photographed storage tanks at oil refineries in CA during the gasoline shortage in ‘73 and ‘74. This effectively inventoried oil reserves that the oil companies claimed were low, but the tanks were full! This weapon development work was secret at the time, so Hughes couldn’t mention what they saw to anyone. I saw copies of the B&W photos years later.

It’s amazing that FLIR cameras are so small and easy to use now.

 

[PWidmayer]

I agree, I mean FLIR for your android phone come on what is that!!

 

[Deleted member 98]

I’ve talked with a dept. that is beginning to use test strips attached to the drone........

 

[PWidmayer]

Nice

 

[AEKO_Drone]

Did anyone start using The FLIR MUVETM C360? I wonder if the turbulence produced by the propellers affects the reading, as the LEL for example

 

[Drone methane sensor]

我是一名环境顾问。我们在工作中使用无人机对场地进行初步记录，监控工作进度并记录完成情况。我们挖掘了大量受污染的土壤，有些场地可能相当大。无人机有助于覆盖场地，尤其是在初次访问场地时。

我们还在进行一些油田工作，并记录了城市地区的几个石油生产站点，将来可能会开始进行一些逸散排放监测（主要是甲烷）。

对于直接的事件响应，无人机是一种很好的工具，可以从各个角度快速高质量地了解正在发生的事情。之后，事件的类型将决定无人机可能有助于执行哪些任务。

检测甲烷用什么设备