Vapor monitoring & Detection System
(VMDS)
An enhanced vapor monitoring and detection system (VMDS) is being developed to detect and monitor vapor emissions and potential exposures experienced in the Hanford tank farms
Below please find the current list of all the items related to VMDS and the pilot scale testing program available on this website.
- Quicklinks-VMDS
- Vapors weekly update – July 12
- Stack Analyzer (UV-DOAS and UV-FTIR)
- Area/Stack Automatic Sampler and Cases
- Fixed Forward Looking Infrared Camera (FLIR)
- SKC-HAZ Scanner
- Ultra-Violet Differential Optical Adsorption Spectrometer (UV-DOAS)
- Gastronics Fixed Instrument Skid
- Meshguard Ammonia Sensor
- Loner GPS
- Wirelessly Integrated Installed Direct Reading Instruments (DRIs)
- VMDS Pilot-Scale Testing
- Ultra Violet – Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy being tested
- Vapor Monitoring & Detection System (VMDS) Technologies
- Direct-Reading instrument under evaluation aims to improve vapor detection
- Sensors under evaluation aim to improve vapor detection
- WRPS begins pilot-scale testing at Hanford’s tank farms
- WRPS evaluates vapors monitoring and detection technology