SEMI-GAS® Systems, a supplier of ultra-high purity gas source and distribution systems with robust control technology, presents two offerings in its line of Centurion™ gas cabinets, built to address the stringent safety codes put forth by the Compressed Gas Association (CGA) specific to silane storage and handling. Its 1CE200 x 1CE Automatic Gas Cabinet and 1CE200 x 1CE200 x 1CE Automatic Gas Cabinet (two-cylinder and three-cylinder formats, respectively) provide separate, side-by-side enclosures to house multiple silane cylinders and a dedicated purge cylinder. This system arrangement upholds the CGA G-13 mandates around silane cylinder separation to prevent flame impingement from valve sources of adjacent cylinders, and safeguards operators against the threat of immediate or latent ignition.
The CGA G-13 system standards for cylinder separation apply to pure silane and silane mixtures with silane content greater than 1.37%. For applications that use these types and concentrations of gases, the Centurion™ 1CE200 x 1CE and 1CE200 x 1CE200 x 1CE Automatic Gas Cabinets offer separate enclosures for individual cylinders that meet CGA G-13 requirements for separation by ¼” thick steel plates or enclosures to protect against flame impingement if any valve fails.