I. Quality Control in Military Applications
Example Problem: A wide range of safety equipment such as gas masks, hazmat
suits, etc.
are used by military and law enforcement personnel for protection from
chemical and biological agents. Effective testing of these materials
requires test gas mixtures, bothat toxic levels and safe levels. Toxic
levels are used to challenge the safety equipment. Safe levels are used
to calibrate analyzers which test for breakthrough.
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Solution: KIN-TEK's FlexStream™ and 491M gas standards generators are versatile enough to create the required test atmospheres for both toxic and safe levels. |
II.
Quality Control in
Petrochemical and Refinery Applications
Example Problem:
Impurities in polymerization grade
Ethylene and propylene.
Ethylene and propylene producers are primarily faced with product
concerns.
The most common impurities are:
| COS | H2S | Total Sulfurs | Ethylene | |
| Propylene | Arsine | CO | CO2 | |
| Acetylene | Methanol | Other Oxygenates | H2O |
These compounds are monitored both on-line for process control
and in the
laboratory for product quality. Calibration and routine
validation
of these systems are primary issues. All of these chemicals
are reactive
and/or polar, and do not store reliably as static mixtures in
cylinders.
This makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to know the
accuracy
of the standards being dispensed by these cylinders.
Solution: KIN-TEK's
FlexStream™ and 491M Series Laboratory
Standards
Generators and Span Pac™ I Series Industrial
Standards
Generator provide calibration
standards for all these compounds, using KIN-TEK's Trace
Source™ disposable and refillable permeation
tubes.
Benefits include:
- The standards are generated fresh, eliminating the storage/deterioration problem.
- KIN-TEK's permeation tubes improve the accuracy of the analysis.
- Our Gas Standards Generator instrumentation perform single-point span checks or multi-point calibrations with ease.