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5 Steps to Precise Gas Calibration
Gas chromatography (GC) is a workhorse technique used to separate, identify, and quantify chemical compounds contained in a carrier gas. It is renowned for its accuracy and repeatability, but—as with any tool used to determine quantity values under set conditions— the quality of GC results depends upon operators carrying out precise gas calibration to guarantee that measured signals ...
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Commonly Asked Questions About Calibration Gas
Argus-Hazco's Becky Schneider answers the most commonly asked questions about calibration gas. The questions range from disposal and refilling protocol to shelf life to MSDS availability. Argus-Hazco offers a complete line of reactive and non-reactive gases in cylinder sizes that range from 17 to 221 liters. We have a large collection of common blends and we can also accommodate virtually any ...
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Gas Sensor Support: Calibration, Servicing and Repairs
Founded in 1971, Edinburgh Sensors has become one of the world’s leading manufacturers of gas detectors for cutting-edge gas sensing solutions. With a global reputation for high performance, our gas detection products are manufactured in the UK and provide an ideal solution for those applications where accuracy, safety and reliability are paramount. Our services don’t stop there. We ...
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What is Multi-Gas Calibration?
Multi-gas analyzers are a very important part of ambient monitoring, where low-level concentrations of certain species can have a dramatic impact on air quality. They are deployed across a wide spectrum of applications from environmental monitoring to workplace health and safety. However, these analyzers are subject to interference from numerous factors that can cause inaccuracies. Here we will ...
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How Often Should You Calibrate Your Gas Equipment?
Gas detectors and analyzers are used for an extensive range of applications including workplace safety, scientific research and environmental monitoring. Keeping your gas equipment properly calibrated is the only way to ensure they’re performing at their best – making gas calibration equipment essential. This article explains why you should be using gas calibration equipment and how ...
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Achieving accurate gas flowmeter calibration
The calibration of gas flowmeters and/or flow controllers is one of those important, inescapable tasks that can be something of a nuisance to the engineer responsible for getting the job done. Sending flowmeters back to the manufacturer for recalibration can be expensive and cause production delays. For this reason, most big users of flowmeters opt for in-house calibration. This approach is often ...
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Gas Detector Calibration
What Is ‘Calibration’?Gas detector calibration is vital for ensuring the safety and efficacy of gas detectors.Calibration ensures that the actual measured value of a detector is correct against a known measurement, or a standard.Why Do We Need To Calibrate Gas Detectors?Our CO2 sensors utilise non-dispersive infrared technology to detect carbon dioxide molecules. Over time, the infrared light ...
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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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A portable calibration gas generator for H2O, HCl, NH3 and Mercury
Abstract The calibration of emission measurement systems for water vapor, hydrogen chloride, ammonia and mercury is difficult and span gas is not available for every component. On the principle of the dynamic evaporation of liquids and the continuous addition of carries gas, a portable calibration gas generator was developed. Linearity, accuracy and the reproducibility is comparable with the ...
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Ease of Calibration & Maintenance
Conventional PIDs may use humidity suppression/compensation techniques but each of them has disadvantages: Humidity sensor – these typically have a slower response than the PID sensor itself which causes a drifting compensation Desiccant tube – these both slow the PID response and also reduce it by adsorption plus they need replacing from time to time which adds cost Humidify the ...
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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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New gas calibration method eases TOC analysis
LAR Process Analysers AG of Berlin, Germany expanded the range of feaiures of its measuring device QuickTOC, which facilitates the monitoring of ultra pure and cooling water, boiler feed and condensate measurement, and industrial wastewaters. For many years, the Berlin company lias been developing, high quality measuring devices and processes for the TOC analysis of condensates and boiler feed. ...
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What is Gas Dilution?
In many industrial or research applications, gases need to be diluted from a high concentration to a variety of lower concentrations. A frequently used application of gas dilution is in the calibration of gas detectors, analyzers and sensors. If gas dilution equipment is not to the correct specifications, the end product can be negatively impacted. Often, it is necessary to have a level of ...
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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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Sonic nozzles for gas calibrators, when simplicity provides accuracy!
Gas analyser’s calibration is a task required in many applications according to either legislation or quality systems management. This is the case for Air Pollution Monitoring or Continuous Emissions Monitoring devices installed in cabinets, for continuous analysis in remote locations. Measurements in traces range are performed and analytical devices specifications need to be validated and ...
By LNI Swissgas
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Calibration and Spectrum Troubleshooting: Span Calibration (Series Part 3 of 4)
In the previous blog, we learned about the general process for zero calibrations for AirSentry® II analyzers. In this entry, we learn how the next step after installation, span calibrations, empirically determine the influence that local atmospheric pressure has on AMC detection. Before you begin, the reactant peak (charged dopant) and target peak (charged AMC) should be identified in the ...
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Did you know: airmoHCHO?
The airmoHCHO enable the analysis of acetaldehyde and methanol in addition to formaldehyde Simultaneous on-line monitoring of formaldehyde (HCHO), acetaldehyde and methanol is achieved without interferents. The new configuration includes a carrier gas back-flush to clean the GC of heavy components in the matrix. Total cycle time is only 30 min as sample preparation is not required. They are ...
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Gas Detector Maintenance and Calibration: Keeping Your Equipment in Top Condition
Background: A gas detector is a basic safety device for monitoring potentially harmful gases in the environment. Their maintenance and calibration are essential to ensure accurate and reliable testing, protecting human health and the environment. This article explores the importance of gas detector maintenance and calibration, the factors that affect detection accuracy, and the steps needed to ...
By JXCT
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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 Often Should Gas Detectors be Calibrated and by Whom?
Calibration frequency is one of the most commonly asked questions concerning the use of gas detection instruments. Common factors to consider when deciding how frequently to calibrate are: type of sensor, type of gas detector (fixed vs. portable), the required use and accuracy of the detector, manufacturer’s recommendations, how confident you are about the functioning of your instrument ...
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