Newson Gale’s new road tanker static grounding system, the Earth-Rite RTR, was runner up in the “Technical Innovation” category at this year’s Hazardex 2010 awards. Each year the Hazardex conference hosts a prestigious awards ceremony to celebrate people and companies who have made significant contributions to innovation and safety within the hazardous process industries.
Ernest Kochmann, CEO of Newson Gale, said “this award reflects the leadership position of Newson Gale within static control for hazardous areas worldwide and we will continue to innovate and engineer reliable and high performance products for our customers well into the future.”
Earth-Rite RTR - runner up in the "Technical Innovation" of the year award 2010
The Earth-Rite RTR performs three checks that verify if a road tanker is grounded prior to, and during, product transfer processes into and out of the tanker.
The grounding system verifies:
- when it is connected to a road tanker (tank truck) based on the unique electrical characteristics of road tankers.
- verfies the quality of the sytem’s static dissipative earth (ground) connection.
- ensures the connection resistance to the truck and the circuit back through the earthing system is 10 ohms or less.
Additional unique features aid electrical installers through a single power supply that can be powered off either 230 V or 115 V ac mains supply. Installers also benefit from a flexible means of providing a static ground connection for the system. The system can be connected to any metalwork that has a proven path to ground (e.g. loading gantry support beams entering the ground). Every time the RTR is operated it will confirm that this ground connection is of a sufficient quality to dissipate static charges that would otherwise accummulate on the truck during product transfer operations.
The system is IECEx and ATEX certfied and carries a SIL2 rating in accordance with IEC 61508. CSA approvals for the U.S. and Canada are expected within the next few months. Additionally, the system has been designed so that operators can demonstrate full compliance with international recommended practice for static control in hazardous areas, most notably NFPA 77, CLC TR: 50404 and API RP 2003.
Click here to learn more about the new Earth-Rite RTR from Newson Gale.