Quality Control Applications

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, both at 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.

Solution: KIN-TEK's 491M Systems are versatile enough to create the required test atmospheres for both the toxic levels and the 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 Span Pac™ I Series Industrial Standards Generator and 491M Series Laboratory Standards Generator provide calibration standards for all these compounds, using KIN-TEK's NIST-traceable Trace Source™ disposable and refillable permeation tubes.

The standards are generated fresh, eliminating the storage/deterioration problem.

KIN-TEK's NIST-traceable Trace Source™ Permeation Tubes improve the accuracy of the analysis.

Our Gas Standards Generator systems perform multi-point calibrations with ease.