The SAAFShield Detecting Unit is the sensing side of the SAAFShield Reactivity Monitor technology. It is part of a system that allows users to monitor corrosion in real time or on a periodic basis to determine equipment or material vulnerability to corrosion. The Detecting Unit works together with the SAAFShield Reading Unit to display and trend corrosion data over time, which allows users to evaluate operational procedures, environmental factors, or other items that occur at specific times for their impact on producing a corrosive environment.

Additionally, the Detecting Unit features compensating hardware that reduces interferences of non-corrosive environmental factors on the quartz crystal microbalances. Since the Detecting Unit is non-powered, it allows a low cost option that can be easily deployed at multiple locations without power and read periodically with the SAAFShield Reading Unit. Alternatively, it can be combined with a Reading Unit to provide constant trending of corrosion data.

Applications and Locations

The SAAFShield Detecting Unit is ideal to monitor air reactivity for sites housing electronic control equipment or other reactive materials. These applications include the following:

Commercial Facilities:

• Museums

• Archives

• Data Centers

Industrial Plants

• Pulp & Paper Mills

• Petrochemical Refineries

• Geothermal Power Plants

• Chemical and Industrial Plants

• Tire Manufacturing Plants

• Rubber Manufacturing Plants