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Multi-Component Benchtop Gas Mixer: Specifications and RFQs
There are many applications which require gas mixtures at relative concentrations that cannot simply be bought as pre-mixtures. Therefore, being able to blend your own gas mixtures in-house with good accuracy can be highly advantageous – which is where multi-component gas mixers are useful. Gas mixing is often used to make gas calibration standards. For a mixer to be suitable for creating ...
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Oizom Multi- Level Calibration System For Environment Monitoring Solution
In laboratory calibration, assembled Oizom devices POLLUDRONE, DUSTROID, ODOSENSE, WEATHERCOM are calibrated with pure air and calibration gases with high range concentrations. In a laboratory setting, zero and span calibration are performed in order to validate the manufacturer’s sensor calibration and determine the sensor offset or gain error if any. In order to perform zero and span ...
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How to Calculate Mass Flow Conversion Factors
The preparation of accurate calibration gas standards depends on the precise regulation of gas flows by devices known as mass flow controllers (MFCs). Ensuring MFCs are performing accurately requires careful evaluation of each process mass flow’s gas conversion factors (known as K-factors or GCF). Here, we take a look at why gas conversion factors are important, and explain how to calculate ...
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Gas analysis implications of the new non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) regulation
On September 2014 the European Commission proposed a new regulation to harmonise across the EU the emissions limit values (ELV’s) from engines installed in Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM). This new regulation replaces a number of national laws and, with effect from 1 Jan 2017, repeals a complex directive including 15 annexes and amended 8 times since 1997. Implementation timeframe for ...
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Global Defence and Aerospace
Product: GasCheck 3000is Industry: Global Defence and Aerospace Application: Detecting refrigerant leaks on the wing tips of Typhoon Euro Fighter Jets Customer: BAE Systems Introduction The GasCheck 3000is was purchased by BAE Systems to meet the need for leak detection. This was used alongside the CalCheck equipment. The big advantage of the GasCheck 3000is was the ATEX approval, which met ...
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What is a Permeation System?
A permeation system is a simple yet effective device used to generate precise gas blends for a wide range of applications, from biological/medical mixing to sensor calibration. Users typically opt for permeation if they require gas mixtures with low-level concentrations, or if their gases are not readily available in bulk formats. Permeation ovens subsequently tend to be custom systems designed ...
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Gas Chromatography Calibration: How to Calibrate GC
Gas chromatography, often abbreviated to GC, is a staple analytical tool in all manner of quality control and research facilities. It is used to detect specific volatile elements in a gas-phase mixture, to quantify the concentration of specific chemicals, and/or to generate a full spectrum of chemical content. This is extremely valuable in a wide range of application bases, from ...
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5 Benefits of Custom Gas Mixers for Chromatography Calibration
Gas chromatography (GC) is one of the main techniques in separation science. It is used to analyze and quantify the individual constituents of sample mixtures by first vaporizing the sample and injecting it into a column filled with a solid or semi-solid packing media. Different components elute from the column at different rates based on their unique physicochemical properties and their ...
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PID Calibration for Oil & Gas Industries
Photoionization detectors (PIDs) are crucial equipment for those working with gas and oil as they help to measure a range of gases, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Because of how frequently PIDs are used and the importance of their accountability and reliability, PID calibration for the oil and gas industries need to be carefully implemented. In this article, we will look at PID ...
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How Do Gas Blenders Work?
As the name might suggest, gas blenders are designed to mix different gases for academic, commercial, and industrial purposes. Sometimes referred to as blends, specific gas mixes are defined by the concentration of their constituent species; usually as a percentage, molar fraction, or a parts-per unit. Many applications require specified gas mixtures with finely controlled compositions; hence ...
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Why Gas Mixers are More Cost-effective than Cylinders in GC Calibration
Gas mixers are not a novel option for gas chromatography calibration, but they are more cost-effective than gas cylinders and becoming a more favorable option. Not only are pure gases cheaper to purchase than pre-mixed gases, but they offer numerous benefits that result in reduced costs and increased profitability. This blog post will look at why gas mixers are a more cost-effective solution ...
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How Mass Flow Controllers Enable Accurate Calibration Standards
Calibration is a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of benchtop chromatography. Guidance on the frequency that gas chromatographic workflows should be calibrated is generally aligned, with the consensus being once every three months is sufficient. However, some believe that calibration can remain stable for up to six months, while other users calibrate as a matter of course before any ...
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How Does Trace Level Gas Calibration Work?
To carry out accurate trace gas analysis, it’s essential that trace level gas calibration is carried out regularly and with precisely prepared calibration gas mixtures. In this blog post, we explore the basics of trace gas analysis and take a closer look at why trace level gas calibration is so important. Trace level gas analyzers (or trace gas analyzers) are systems that detect and ...
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On-Demand Gas Delivery Systems from Environics
Gas delivery systems are used in a broad variety of work environments and a range of applications. The Environics Series 3000 gas blending and gas delivery system provides an on-site blending of 100% pure bulk gases and is configured to offer an alternative to using expensive premixed cylinders of gas. Rather than using premixed cylinders, the gas delivery systems from Environics mean that ...
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A Tale of Two Thermals: Capillary & Immersible
About: The Core Technology White Paper Series is a four part series detailing the flow technologies that allow Sierra to offer a flow solution for nearly any gas, liquid and steam application. Part 1 focuses on Sierra’s two types of thermal mass flow technologies for gas mass flow measurement and control—Capillary Thermal & Immersible Thermal. Part 2 will focus on our ...
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Primary Standard Gas Flow Calibration—The Only Guarantee of Accuracy
At Sierra, we have a saying: “An instrument’s accuracy is only as good as its calibration.” The accuracy of your mass flow controller (MFC) is essential in assuring the efficiency, performance, and quality of your flow meter. In many cases, if your instrumentation is not calibrated, then a decline in performance is possible due to sensor drift from the factory calibration. ...
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Measuring carbon dioxide (CO2) along ocean surfaces case study
Customer: Confidential Application: A research team needed to study the levels and variations of one of the major greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) along the ocean surfaces. The research team required CO2 analysers to be installed in commercial ocean liners to monitor the “dry” level of CO2 on ocean surfaces as well as the ability to calibrate automatically and accurately ...
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ION Science PID Response Factors
PID Response Photoionization Detectors (PIDs) respond to a broad range of organic and a few inorganic gaseous and volatile chemicals (‘volatiles’). In order for PID to respond to a volatile, the photon energy of the lamp must be greater than its ionization energy (IE). ION Science PIDs are available with lamps emitting light of maximum energy of 10.0 eV, 10.6 eV, and 11.7 eV. This ...
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Case study : VOC analysis in ambient air by FID dectection - Complete system airmOzone
Ozone concentration has been multiplied by 5 in the last century in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere from 10 PPB in 1874 to approximately 50 PPB today. This is an increase of 1.6% per year; the trend is probably higher (2.4% a year) over the last decades. (Chapter 1 of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program - World Climate Research Program) In order to stop this global ...
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airmOzone: 88 VOCs from PAMS and TO14 lists - Case Study
Ozone precursors by FID from WATER or AIR 0 - 325 μg/m3 or higher Context & Challenges Ozone concentration has been multiplied by 5 in the last century in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere from 10 PPB in 1874 to approximately 50 PPB today. This is an increase of 1.6% per year; the trend is probably higher (2.4% a year) over the last decades. (Chapter 1 of the International ...
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