PETROLEUM DIRECTORY: RAE Systems provides wing tank entry monitors

RAE Systems Inc. has shipped 280 kits to the U.S. military for mechanics who service airplane wing tanks. It’s part of a five-year contract that calls for the company to ship at least 150 of the kits each year.

The RAE product is customized for entering and servicing aircraft wing tanks. Its alarms, gas measurement scales and calibration gases are specially tailored for use in environments containing jet fuel vapors.

The kit uses photoionization detectors instead of traditional Wheatstone bridge LEL, lower explosive limit, sensors for measuring jet fuel vapors, although the RAE package includes the traditional LEL sensor, plus an oxygen sensor.

“This contract further extends our growing role in military aviation worker safety, and builds on our previous successes in providing Wingtank Entry Kits to the U.S. military,” said Robert I. Chen, CEO of RAE Systems, in a March 14 statement.

RAE Systems is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. More information on the entry kits or other products is available at www.RAESystems.com.

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