In accidents of all types involving vehicles, one of the big hazards (especially for burning vehicles) is toxic emissions into the air. When exposed to extreme heat/fire, batteries can rupture leaking corrosive material and/or emit toxic fumes. Burning batteries may emit acrid smoke with irritating fumes, and especially toxic fumes of fluoride containing compounds like HF.
DOD Technologies brings years of experience measuring halogens and acid gases in the semiconductor industry to HazMat responder teams. Already a significant hazard in all kinds of vehicle accidents, the potential problems will be increasing in the future as electric vehicles with a large number of batteries compared to the vehicles of today become more and more commonplace. The ease-of-use and flexibility to measure many families of toxic compounds makes the DOD Technologies CLPx an indispensable tool for first responders everywhere now and in to the future.
To learn more about the CLPx portable gas detector, please visit the product page on our site or contact us.