Portascanner® AIRTIGHT

Supports building and fire codes that require airtightness testing, air leakage testing, air permeability testing or room integrity testing. It identifies leak locations and quantifies the air flow through them to help achieve sufficient airtightness in the room for reasons of energy efficiency, CO2 emissions or, as in the fire industry, the effectiveness of a fire suppression system in extinguishing a fire. is released with a value for air permeability.

7 inch Touchscreen Handheld Ultrasonic Air Tightness Quantifier for buildings and fire safety.

Ultrasonic leak detector launched in January 2021.

• For maintenance of buildings and facilities in response to new building codes requiring testing for airtightness, air leakage and air permeability
• For integrity testing in fire safety rooms to complement door fan testing.

Portascanner® AIRTIGHT 520 evolved from the development of the Portascanner® COVID-19 and in response to new building codes requiring airtightness testing, air leakage testing and air permeability testing in buildings and facility management , to ensure that HVAC systems are effective and efficient, to reduce operational costs and CO2 emissions.

It also has applications within the fire safety sector and assists in installation and maintenance to help meet the  ISO 14520, EN15004 and NFPA regulations . 

Indoor air quality is now recognized as a major problem in homes, offices, hospitals, schools and factories, of which integrity can only be maintained if the air inlet and outlet are controlled in an airtight environment. However, existing tests for airtightness are disruptive, costly, difficult and only provide information about the overall "leakage" of the room or building. A separate test is needed to detect any leaks, and there is currently no way to quantify these leaks.   

• Portascanner ® AIRTIGHT 520 is an instrument with which an operator , with minimal training, leaks in a particular space or structure can locate and then can quantify them based on their cross section.
• This can then be used to an air flow through the leak at calculate . By itself, however, air flow rate does not provide sufficient information to quantify the airtightness of a room.
• This is because the air flow rate depends only on the physical size of the leak, the thickness of the structure through which the leak occurs and the relative pressures on either side of the leak.
• Therefore, a certain size of leak would cause air to flow at the same speed,  regardless of the size of the room into which / from which the air flows.
• Clearly, when a volume of 5 m 3  air per hour flowed through a leak in a compartment of 5m 3 , will have a much more significant effect than the same airflow in a compartment of 1000 3 .
• As such, refer the regulations usually go to  air permeability  or  air changes per hour , which take into account the size of the room . Portascanner ® AIRTIGHT 520 ,  with some  additional  dimensional data about the room can quantify leaks in terms of each of these statistics, plus  provide  the  rough  airflow  and  the cross-sectional area of each leak  separate .  

Portascanner® AIRTIGHT 520 is another vital technology developed by Coltraco Ultrasonics, which provides a complements HVAC and air filtration systems by first ensuring the airtightness of rooms and quickly locating any air leaks . One without the other would somehow make the latter redundant.

Key features 

Portascanner® AIRTIGHT 520 offers the ability to fully assess a room before FPE (Fan Pressurization Equipment) is installed, which means that significant resources can be saved by significantly reducing the risk of installing FPE in an unsuitable space

1. 8 megapixel camera
2. Dual function
3. Energy Settings
4. Record and export data via USB
5. Filter records by date or location
6. Maintenance tool (non-medical)

Advantages

1. NAIVE - Determine air leakage through walls, doors, seals.
2. BASED ON RESULTS - Calculate the number of leaks, leak area, total air flow rate and air permeability.
3. NATURE - Find the exact location of leaks so that corrective action can be taken. This means not having to go through the "patch and hope" procedure that currently being used.
4. FAST & EASY - Much faster and easier than the alternative.