What are the ways to tell if there is a gas leak in your daily gas usage? Take a look!
First, smell
Natural gas itself is colourless and odourless, in order to ensure the safety of delivery and use, and to detect leaks in a timely manner, home gas will be odourized before entering the residents’ homes, making it smell like rotten eggs.
If you smell something like rotten eggs at home, it is likely that there is a gas leak.
Check the gas meter
Turn off the gas cooker at home, in the case of no gas at all, if the end of the gas meter in the red box figures go, it can be judged as a gas leak.
Listen to the sound
In the process of using gas, if you hear the sound of ‘bared’, it may be a gas leak, and you should pay attention to it immediately.
Bubbling method
When suspected of gas leakage, you can use soapy water in the possible leakage places (such as hoses, interfaces, pipelines, plug valves, etc.) coated, if the appearance of small bubbles and increasing, it indicates that the part of the leakage occurred.
Fifth, the installation of household gas alarms
Household gas alarm is a professional instrument to detect the concentration of gas leakage, can be detected in real time, when the gas leakage concentration reaches or exceeds the preset value, it will immediately send out sound and light alarm signals, effectively preventing the occurrence of disasters and accidents.
In addition to the installation of home gas alarms, users can also through the following methods to effectively prevent gas leakage.
Residents commonly used in the home gas emergency cut-off device is generally a solenoid valve and robot. Solenoid valves and robots are generally used in conjunction with household gas alarms, when a gas leak is detected, the alarm can also be linked to solenoid valves, robots to close the gas valve, cut off the gas source, to further protect the safety of gas.
According to the standard requirements of ‘Commercial Gas Burning Appliances’ that came into effect on 1 March 2019, all types of commercial gas burners must be installed with flame failure protection devices for each burner.
When using gas, residents should pay attention to open windows and ventilation, develop good gas habits, so that the fire does not leave people, the use of high temperature resistance, not easy to fall off the metal bellows, etc., always pay attention to gas safety.
