Mass spectrometer provides sophisticated, precise, and continuous monitoring of a wide range of components in gas streams
Agilent Technologies Europe has announced the release of a new describing the applications and features of its new real-time gas analyser (RTGA), which provides sophisticated, precise, and continuous monitoring of a wide range of components in gas streams - all in a rugged, easy-to-operate package.
"New technologies, such as fuel cell development, have accelerated the need for real-time gas analysis," said Mona Burke, fuel cells market manager.
"Understanding gas stream composition at various points in the fuel cell system is critical to efficient operations.
Although other instruments can provide multi-component analyses for steady-state operations, the real-time gas analyser is ideal for monitoring multi-component transients." According to the brochure, real-time monitoring can also expedite the determination of volatile solvent residues in pharmaceuticals and can more efficiently monitor off-gas-stream components from reaction processes, even complex ones such as fermentation.
The brochure reviews not only the applications, but also the features and capabilities of the RTGA, including easy-to-use software that enables the user to import results into third-party spreadsheets, statistical analysis and modeling packages for off-line analysis.
The new instrument offers customers a real-time response as fast as two seconds for multiple components with sensitivity in the parts per billion range, and a typical dynamic range of four to five orders of magnitude.
And the selectivity of this mass spectrometer - capable of discriminating less than 1amu - provides confidence in each reported value and largely overcomes the compound/matrix interference often observed with other less selective detection systems.
'The Agilent 5000A Real-Time Gas Analyser' (publication number 5988-5957EN) brochure is available free of charge from the Agilent website (see above) or from any Agilent sales office worldwide.
