The challenge for airports operating fuel hydrants
It’s recommended in A4A’s specifications and the industry standards set by the Joint Inspection Group (JIG) and the Energy Institute (EI) that airport fuel hydrant operators perform monthly integrity checks on fuel hydrant pit valves to determine if they have a “hot valve”.
However, the manual process for pit valve integrity checks is intrusive, labor intensive, costly, requires heavy equipment and increases the risk of jet fuel leaking into the pit box.
Considering there can be up to 1,000 pit valves to inspect monthly in some airports, manual checks can be time consuming and disruptive to operations too.
We recently launched Atmos Pit Sentry, a new technology which can digitize the pit valve integrity testing process while saving time and streamlining operations.
Ardova plc recently wrote a feature on our hardware innovation for their flagship magazine, Inside Air AP. Read it on pages 41-42 or click the image to read.