MicroGuard™

ABB Ability™ Portable Gas Leak Detection Solution

MicroGuard™

With MicroGuard™, walking surveyors can pinpoint leak locations as well as generate and share comprehensive digital reports within minutes. MicroGuard™ can detect, locate, and map natural gas leaks faster and more reliably than any other technology.

Fast

Accurate

Immediate

Simple

Applications

Advantages

Find leaks fast

Leak surveyors no longer need to use slow, outdated and insensitive equipment to detect gas leaks within distribution pipelines, storage facilities, or anywhere within the natural gas infrastructure.

This unique portable gas leak detection solution comprises ABB’s OA-ICOS™ ultrasensitive gas analyzer, a ruggedized phablet (large phone/tablet) with GNNS capability and high-brightness screen, an ergonomic air sampling wand, and proprietary software.

MicroGuard™’s advanced software provides a rich graphical user interface, a computational platform for geospatial mapping and advanced analytics, and also automatically produces investigation reports compatible with all major geographic information systems.

Most importantly, MicroGuard™ can integrate drive survey data (emissions indications), recorded and shared in the cloud by MobileGuard™, to enable walking surveyors to pinpoint sources in minutes.

Proven and accurate technology

Patented OA-ICOS™ is the most reliable gas sensing technology available
Deployed worldwide for scientific research in remote locations
Fast, high precision measurements enable pinpointing of emissions sources quickly
Realtime methane/ethane ratios provide source attribution
Data reported at 10 Hz with high sensitivity
No cross interferences
Fast gas flow response (2.5 Hz)
Secure internet connectivity
Reads digital maps generated by MobileGuard™
User interface (Android) maps real-time data
Automatically generates digital reports for import into user’s GIS

Data reported immediately

Customer owns, and has access to, all data always.
Data stored on the analyzer and, if desired, securely shared to the cloud
Electronic data facilitates compliance reporting and creation of digital workflow
System communicates using cellular wireless technology
Data exportable to geographical information systems (GIS)

Simple to use

Intuitive user interface and system operation
Rich graphical display shows survey route, survey area, digital data, time chart, leak indications and source attribution (pipeline gas or naturally occurring methane), and integrated data from MobileGuard™ (if shared)
Records data within one minute after power on (other methods either require calibration, long warm-up, and/or are 1000x less sensitive)

Applications

Distribution pipelines, services, storage sites
Gathering lines
Odor investigation
Construction verification
Post disaster evaluation
Frost line evaluation
Public gatherings
Landfill monitoring
Agricultural studies
Research studies

The OA-ICOS™ technology advantages

The unique advantages of the patented OA-ICOS technology make ABB’s gas analyzers the preferred choice.

Highest Precision and Sensitivity - combines rugged, reliable near-IR diode lasers with an optical cavity to yield measurements with the highest precision and sensitivity in a simple, robust package. Allows to detect leaks from further away and to locate hard-to-find small emissions.
Widest Dynamic Range - OA-ICOS provides linear response over a much wider dynamic range than conventional CRDS and TDLAS methods allowing to quantify emissions from small or large leaks.
Best Performance - provides unsurpassed overall performance in every important metric (accuracy, speed, linearity, reliability).
Field Serviceable / Minimal Downtime - designed for ruggedness and reliability, in addition to performance. Overall simplicity allows easy service, if necessary.
Better Value - analyzer performance unaffected by minor shifts in optical alignment enabling the use of simpler components and sub-systems.
Comprehensive Platform - ABB uniquely provides a comprehensive platform of solutions based on OA-ICOS technology designed to address any leak detection application.