Water determination is one of the most common titrations carried out in the laboratory today: now this can be carried out on-line using the ADI2016 Titro Analyzer from Applikon Analytical.

Water determination is one of the most common titrations carried out in the laboratory today and is performed using the analytical standard Karl Fischer method. New from Applikon Analytical is the latest version of the ADI 2016 Titro Analyzer configured for volumetric Karl Fischer determination. The ADI 2016 Titro Analyzer from Applikon Analytical is designed to bridge the gap between the process and the laboratory by carrying out the analysis on-line.

At the heart of the analyser is a precision burette and volumetric sampling system to provide laboratory accuracy within a robust, reliable analyser.

The ADI 2016 Titro Analyzer will perform volumetric Karl Fischer analysis using standard laboratory methodology and using commercially available reagents.

The sample is automatically introduced to the analyser when data is required and a full range of sample conditioning systems prevent contamination of the sample.

Housed in an IP65 cabinet constructed from stainless steel the ADI 2016 Titro Analyzer is suitable for mounting within the process environment without further protection.

Justice Laboratory Software has released an updated new version of its popular chromatography data system range, Chrom Perfect.

Justice Laboratory Software has released version 5.5.4 of its popular chromatography data system range, Chrom Perfect. One key new feature has been added to the peak detection algorithm, allowing Chrom Perfect to handle complex chromatograms far more effectively with the use of 'nested windows'. Chromatographers who have complex analyses, with many peaks, face difficulties automating their analysis and reporting accurate data when the search windows from two expected components overlap.

Starting with Chrom Perfect Spirit version 5.5.4, overlap is handled in a deliberate fashion, affording new strategies for peak identification.

Now, a large area under a window can be identified as a group, and 'nested windows' of smaller groups or individual peaks that are located within this larger window can be identified separately and excluded from the larger group.

This innovation will be of particular interest to laboratories with complex chromatographic analyses with many peaks over a short retention time.

The petrochemical industry for example will find this new feature particularly valuable.

Some new auditing features have been added for users in regulated environments, to allow modifications of raw and bound files to be audited by the inclusion of file version numbers.

Therefore with version 5.5.4 it is now possible for laboratories to provide additional advanced documentation to auditors and supervisory bodies to support their analysis.

There have been a number of other improvements added to the software to improve the chromatography reporting for general applications and also specific new functionality full-size exclusion chromatography users (SEC).

Additional features have also been added for any analysis that requires group reporting.

With nine new report variables to allow for group area and height normalisation and cumulative calculations to be made automatically and presented within a Chrom Perfect formatted report, Justice Laboratory Software are constantly improving the functionality and usability of their product.

There are a number of minor functional changes to key areas of the software, with specific enhancements to the data acquisition programme and batch reprocessing

Ideal for short term or routine applications such as industrial shutdowns, the new Draeger X-am 1100 Personal Air Monitor provides up to 120-days gas and vapour detection.

Ideal for short term or routine applications such as industrial shutdowns, the new Draeger X-am 1100 Personal Air Monitor provides up to 120-days detection of explosive gases and vapours, including diesel fumes, as well as oxygen (O2), carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S). Offering a cost effective, more convenient alternative to a rental device, this lightweight instrument eliminates the problems often associated with damage or loss and can simply be disposed of after use. Completely maintenance-free and no larger than a mobile phone, the pre-calibrated X-am 1100 is easy to use.

Designed for intuitive operation and featuring a practical two-key control panel and straightforward menu guidance system, it also benefits from a large liquid crystal display which provides all readings at a glance.

Incorporating the latest miniaturised XXS generation of powerful electrochemical DraegerSensors, the inclusion of a catalytic Ex sensor, calibrated to methane, also means that it can provide improved safety when facing unknown hazards.

This sensor not only responds quickly to explosive gases but it also offers a high level of sensitivity to combustible organic vapours and, as a result, ensures dependable warnings in the event of explosive hazards.

Fitted with a crocodile clip for secure attachment to clothing, the ergonomic design features gas inlets on both the top and front to ensure that, even if it is accidentally placed in a jacket pocket, it will still provide a reliable warning against gas hazards.

In alarm situations, three different types of warning are issued.

The audible multi-tone alarm is impossible to miss, whilst a visual 180-degree alarm helps to ensure that the warning is not ignored, as does the built-in vibrational alarm.

Dust and water-resistant to IP67, this rugged instrument remains fully functional and ready for use even after being dropped in water.

The integrated rubber protection and shockproof sensors provide additional resistance to impact and vibration and the unit is also able to withstand electromagnetic interference.

The X-am 1100 can be used with either the standard alkaline or optional NINH batteries.

In addition it can be fitted with a T4 battery, which can be recharged in the workshop or in a vehicle, whilst still inside the instrument.

Equipped with a data logger as standard, the unit allows data such as alarms, errors and the results of function tests to be transmitted via infrared interface to a PC.

The data can then be analysed using the DraegerGas Vision software.

A variety of options are also available such as the Draeger E-Cal automatic test and calibration station, the Draeger Bump Test Station and optional user registration via the Draeger CC-Vision software.

If you have a Carbon Monoxide concern and need to know more, the Lascar Electronics EL-USB-CO carbon monoxide data logger can help in determining the nature of the problem.

If you have a carbon monoxide concern and need to know more, the Lascar Electronics EL-USB-CO carbon monoxide data logger can help in determining the nature of the problem. Carbon Monoxide (CO) is a poisonous gas, which is both odourless and colourless. It is produced by equipment/machinery that isn't working correctly and often (as in the case of motor vehicles) also when it is.

The Lascar EL-USB-CO data logger monitors and records CO levels in an environment over a period of time.

This can help the user to determine where and when peak levels of CO occur, allowing corrective action to be carried out to remedy the problem.

Application areas include: construction sites, furnace rooms, ventilation systems, office blocks, homes near motor traffic (especially in enclosed areas such as tunnels and garaging).

The EL-USB-CO stores over 32,000 readings and can record CO levels from 0 to 1000 ppm.

Set-up of the data logger is completed using the supplied EL-USB software, with the EL-USB-CO plugging directly into the USB port of a PC.

Here the user can assign the logger a name, choose a sample rate (from a choice of once every: 10 secs, 30 secs, 1 mins, 5 mins), as well as determining a high-alarm level.

Once setup is complete the EL-USB-CO should be left in the environment where the study is to take place.

When ready, the data can downloaded onto the PC, graphed, printed and exported to other applications.

Technology: At the heart of the system is a state-of-the-art electrochemical CO sensor.

It has been chosen for its high-sensitivity, high accuracy, resistance to other gases and long-term stability.

Low-power processor technology allows the logger to run up to one year on its internal battery.

The logger is RoHS compliant.

Design History: The EL-USB-CO is the latest in the extremely successful line of the Lascar EL-USB data loggers, which have found numerous applications all over the world.

The entire design process is done in-house, using the Lascar team of graphic designers and electronic, mechanical and software engineers.

For this reason, customisation, from badged software or loggers to full bespoke design, can be carried out to ISO 9001 standard.

Lascar now offer a custom design and manufacture service, bringing together the best of Western design methods and Far-Eastern manufacture to provide our customers with a truly world class service.

The EL-USB-CO is available for purchase at GBP49 from the Lascar website.

If you have any queries regarding a potential application or would like to discuss the EL-USB-CO further please contact the Lascar sales team.

Enraf MeQ-Pak Turbine Driven Injectors, installed at a major oil terminal on the UK South Coast, are providing flow proportional marker dosing systems for ship import lines of kerosene and gas oil.

Enraf Fluid Technology has supplied and commissioned a dual pipeline marker system at a major oil terminal on the South Coast of England. Using its MeQ-Pak Turbine Driven Injector, Enraf has provided a highly efficient and cost effective solution to overcoming its client's restriction of only being able to import pre-marked product for its gas oil and kerosene storage tanks. With the MeQ-Pak, the end user is now free of this major restriction as the system enables marking to be performed in-line at the UK terminal.

The client's requirement was for their two ship import lines for kerosene and gas oil to be additivated with marker dye during receipt at 100ppm and 1000ppm respectively.

The solution was to install two 6 inch MeQ-Pak turbine injection units complete with marker storage tanks.

The Enraf MeQ-Pak is a simple mechanical device comprising an injection controller, pump system and pipeline interface which has been designed for mounting into the product pipeline.

The self-powered turbine operates purely by the power generated by the product flow through the pipeline, rotating the turbine and producing the energy to drive the injection system.

As a result, the unit does not require either a power supply or pump booster system.

The two MeQ-Paks were installed directly into each pipeline and fed with the respective marker from the fully bonded storage tanks.

With the MeQ-Paks, the end-user has the scope to inject additives up to 2500ppm at product flow rates of up to 300m3/hr.

Plus, with the inclusion of a high accuracy PD meter on the additive injection lines, our customer has the additional security of local or remote reconciliation of all marker injections.

As the power is generated by the product flow there is no need for additional power supplies, thereby making the system ideal for applications where cabling would make injection prohibitively expensive.

Coupled with this is its simple installation and low maintenance requirement, factors that make it a highly cost-efficient system to operate.

The Enraf MeQ-Pak is available in five sizes from 2 inches to 10 inches and is suitable for flow rates up to 960m3/hr.

It can provide injection ratios of 0.25ppm to 2500ppm and can accommodate up to four different additives simultaneously.

Injection rates are fully client configurable via vernier displacement controls on each pump head, allowing for increases or decreases of injection rates within each unit's specified range.

Jiskoot has supplied three Co-Jetix sampling systems to Independent Inspection Services AB, to replace the manifold samplers installed at the Preem, Gothenburg and Scanraff, Lysekil refineries.

Jiskoot has supplied three Co-Jetix sampling systems to Independent Inspection Services AB of Sweden for installation at the Preem, Gothenburg and Scanraff, Lysekil refineries to replace the manifold samplers previously installed in loading arms. Installed in the horizontal 32 inch pipelines from the jetty to the refineries, the Co-Jetix systems will sample a wide range of crude oils. They were specified by IIS as part of its contract to provide custody transfer cargo inspection services for both refineries.

Designed to fully comply with the mixing and sampling requirements of ISO 3171, the Co-Jetix systems have a measurement uncertainty of better than 0.025%, providing indisputable evidence in the event of a cargo quality being challenged.

Each system includes a Jiskoot JetMix, a 210 cell sampler ensuring highly accurate grab samples and on-line performance monitoring to comply with the sampling standards.

The Jiskoot InSight control system has an integrated GSM function providing automated SMS messages to operators on their mobile phones for total control of operations.

The system also includes Jiskoot sample receivers and laboratory mixing systems to ensure the samples are representative right up to the point of analysis.

A Hydramotion XL7 on-line viscometer is saving both time and money for Turkish chemicals manufacturer Ak-kim Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret, by allowing on-line control of resin viscosity.

A Hydramotion XL7 on-line viscometer is saving both time and money for Turkish chemicals manufacturer Ak-kim Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret. Amongst the company's products is a polyamidoamine-epichlorohydrin resin used to impart wet strength to tissue paper. Synthetic water-soluble polymers such as the resin made by Ak-kim Kimya provide wet strength to the paper by (1) reinforcing the cross-links between the cellulose fibres, which are weakened by water molecules, and (2) reacting with the cellulose to create an additional cross-linked network.

By controlling the viscosity of the resin solution, production staff can directly affect the quality of the finished product.

But until Ak-kim Kimya came to Hydramotion, viscosity could only be measured off-line in the laboratory, so viscosity control was slow, inefficient and unreliable.

Now, with the XL7 on-line viscometer up and running, the company is benefiting from the boost in productivity made possible by continuous real-time viscosity measurement.

'We can easily control and see the viscosity on a display', commented Process Engineer Serhat Zeytinci: 'This saves us a lot of time and labour cost'.

Ak-kim Kimya was immediately attracted to the XL7 because of its flexibility.

'We decided on Hydramotion because it gave us a choice of locations.

The viscometer could be installed in a reactor as well as on-line,' said Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer Nuri Basarici: 'The installation was very easy, and the instrument is very easy to use'.

The company was also impressed by the after-sales service.

'There was an initial problem with our power supply,' recalls Mr Basarici, 'but the Hydramotion service engineers were very helpful and it was quickly fixed.'

Hach Lange has transformed its reagent recycling service to help companies comply with waste management regulations and improve environmental performance.

Hach Lange has transformed its reagent recycling service to help companies comply with waste management regulations and improve environmental performance. As a result of recent legislation 'Where hazardous waste is produced at, or removed from, any premises other than exempt premises, the premises must be notified to the Environment Agency'. This means that any business producing hazardous waste has a legal duty to register accordingly.

In addition, each collection will be notified to the EA and a written document must be issued with all the relevant paperwork.

As a responsible manufacturer, Hach Lange has offered a waste recycling service since 1990.

However, the procedures involved are now more rigorous and it has become necessary to charge for this service, albeit on a not-for-profit basis.

The Hach Lange Recycling Centre is located at the company's European headquarters in Germany, however a fast and efficient collection system has been established to meet the needs of UK customers.

The Recycling Centre facilitates recovery of toxic materials from Hach Lange reagent tubes including, for example, COD tubes from which mercury, silver and chromium are recovered.

Over 70% of returned materials are either re-used or recycled.

On arrival at the Recycling Centre packaging material is removed and the waste is categorised into cyanide-containing, acid-containing, mercury containing and AOX-containing reagents in order to maximise the efficiency of treatment.

Naturally, following treatment, any effluent from the plant is monitored by some of the world's most advanced instrumentation.

Each of the Recycling Packages offered by Hach Lange includes.

* Pre-notification of the EA, the carrier and the waste producer within the 3 day collection period.

* Collection and transportation of used reagents with licensed carrier.

* Storage of waste at EA licensed transfer station.

* Documentation of waste by producer and summary statement sent to EA.

* Re-packing waste into UN approved cartons palletising and storage by licensed staff.

* Preparation of transfrontier shipment paperwork in accordance with EA requirements when sufficient quantity collected for transfer to recycling centre.

* Transportation to the Hach Lange European Recycling Centre.

* Paperwork sent to EA.

* Unpacking, sorting, recycling, re-use or treatment of waste.

* Certificate of recycling issued to customer.

Hach Lange says that there are four easy steps to implement the reagent recycling service - 1) Contact Hach Lange Recycling on +44 161 872 1487 for advice on which collection/recycling package would provide the most cost-effective service.

2) Complete recycling request form and place order.

3) Await pick-up confirmation.

4) Receive confirmation certificate of successful recycling (if requested).

The Hach Lange European recycling centre in Germany is available for customer audit.

The new Rosemount Analytical pH sensors are designed for increased life in elevated temperatures and harsh, corrosive applications.

Emerson Process Management has introduced a new generation of high temperature pH sensors, designed specifically for increased sensor life and greater performance in elevated temperature applications. The new Rosemount Analytical Model 3300HT and 3400HT high temperature pH sensors perform longer in temperatures up to 145C (293F). The Model 3300HT and 3400HT are the first releases of the PERph-X line, an entirely new sensor platform with many specialised design features, including AccuGlass pH glass formulations.

These resist cracking and maintain near theoretical response even at extreme pH values and after exposure to very high temperature applications.

These new formulations require less frequent calibration and increase sensor life.

The new sensors also feature an improved double junction reference that can be refilled, when used in extreme applications that deplete the reference electrolyte.

This is a common problem in elevated temperature applications that can coat, foul or produce large measurement offsets.

Reference flow into the process stream is controlled using a porous Teflon reference junction, which is replaceable when used in dirty or oily applications.

The titanium and Ryton outer body construction is resistant to high temperatures and pressures, and can be used cycle after cycle.

John Wright of the Rosemount Analytical Liquid Division in Emerson Process Management explains: 'The innovative design behind the new generation high temperature sensors establishes a new benchmark for performance and life in elevated temperature environments.

Testing at 145C indicated that the new sensors outperformed the competition in response time, sensor lifetime and accuracy.

While customers will seldom need to use the sensors at these levels, we wanted to demonstrate the significant long life potential of these new sensors in real-world applications, such as pulp and paper, and chemical processing.

Over the last 65 years, Emerson has consistently offered new standards in long life, high performance, low maintenance, and high accuracy analysis equipment, and our new generation of PERph-X high temperature sensors perform longer than previous technologies in elevated temperatures, offering further proof of technology leadership from Emerson'.

The new sensors are recommended for use not only at high temperatures, but also in harsh, dirty and abrasive applications such as lime slurry, paper machine headboxes, pigments and dyes, and other applications where suspended solids are present.

They feature pressure/temperature ratings of 100 psig at 145C or 250 psig at 100C.

Sensors are supplied with several mounting and cabling options, including Variopol connectors.

The Model 3400HT retractable design allows for the sensor to be removed from the process for calibration and maintenance without process shutdown.

The Model 3300HT insertion/submersion design allows for variable insertion depths and simple sensor removal without cable twisting.

Both models allow continuous measurement of diagnostics to indicate when cleaning or sensor replacement is necessary.

Rosemount Analytical liquid measurement technology is a key component of the PlantWeb digital plant architecture from Emerson, that delivers operating efficiency improvements.

Elcometer are pleased to announce the launch of their new range of rotational viscometers, suitable for non-Newtonian as well as Newtonian liquids.

Elcometer are pleased to announce the launch of their new range of rotational viscometers. The Elcometer 2300 range of rotational viscometers are ideal for determining the viscosity of liquids which do not depend solely on temperature or pressure, the behaviour of non-Newtonian as well as Newtonian liquids can be analysed. The Elcometer 2300 range are accurate, easy to use and reliable instruments which can be used in accordance with all relevant standards.

Available in four versions the Elcometer 2300, with a measuring range of between 3 - 20,000,000mPa, are available as either manually controlled or fully PC programmable and controllable for automated testing.

This allows the user to pre-define and store process variables, such as start RPM, end RPM, test duration, start time delay and temperature, for repeated and consistent testing.

Key features of all Elcometer 2300 Rotational Viscometers include.

* A backlit LCD display which clearly shows the viscosity reading in cP or mPa together with spindle rotation speed, % torque, sample temperature, auto range, shear rate and shear stress.

* An extensive range of accessories are available which enable the Elcometer 2300 to measure materials with a viscosity as low as 1cP, high viscosity materials such as creams, gels, pastes and epoxies, products where there is only a small sample available - up to 200C / 392F.

* Each Elcometer 2300 is supplied with the relevant set of quick connect spindles, liquid temperature probe and the Elcometer ViscosityMaster software where data can be stored with associated photographs, test notes and other relevant information.

* A range of test speeds from 0.3rpm to 200rpm.

The versatile Elcometer 2300 range is part of a comprehensive range of flow cups, dip cups, cone and plate and rotational viscometers offered by Elcometer to meet their customers' viscosity measurement requirements.

Following the success of their Accuscan 4600 vehicle emissions monitoring demonstrations in London and Glasgow this June, Enviro Technology have launched a Vehicle Emissions Monitoring Programme.

Following the success of their Accuscan 4600 vehicle emissions monitoring demonstrations in London and Glasgow this June, Air Quality Monitoring specialists - Enviro Technology - have launched a bespoke Vehicle Emissions Monitoring Programme aimed at local authorities. The launch of this programme comes about due to the overwhelming attendance and information requests which the company received both in the run up to, and during, the Accuscan 4600 demonstration events. Over 4,000 vehicles were tested in both London and Glasgow over a four hour period in June 2006.

Representatives from the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London Borough of Newham and Transport for London were just some of those in attendance.

Recorded findings from the sites showed the following.

* The percentage of vehicles emitting over 1,500 ppm NO was similar at both sites - around 7%.

* Of the two cities, Glasgow recorded the highest vehicle emissions, with an HGV recorded as emitting 5621 ppm NO and a 4x4 recorded as emitting 3334 ppm NO.

* In London the most prevalent vehicle, the black cab, averaged 800 ppm NO.

* It was noted that brand new (06) registrations were significantly lower.

Says Duncan Mounsor, Enviro Technology Operations Director: 'These demonstration events showed local authorities just how rapidly vehicle emissions testing technology has developed in the past few years.

Technology has become more rugged and commercially available, and many local authorities were surprised at just how simple it was to set up the Accuscan 4600 and thus start generating results.

Following the success of these events, Enviro Technology has launched their first 'Vehicle Emissions Monitoring Programme'.

This programme is specifically targeted at those authorities looking to embark on fleet characterisation studies.

ET will work with the authorities to identify suitable testing sites and will then provide the manpower and technology to monitor vehicles over a specific time period.

Says Duncan: 'Our new programme will enable us, on behalf of the LAs, to monitor vehicles at various pre-determined sites over a specified time period.

We will be able to provide data for over 20,000 vehicles and also provide post processing information.

Enviro Technology has already been commissioned to work on two fleet characterisation surveys using the Accuscan 4600 technology during the next few months.

Enviro Technology is planning on staging more demonstration events later in the year for those local authorities who didn't make it to London and Glasgow.

Further details will be available on the website.

For further information on the Enviro Technology Vehicle Emissions Monitoring Programme please call Stephen Hoskin.

A contamination-free aseptic sampling system, initially developed for the milk processing industry by leading hygienic valve specialists Sudmo, is now gaining recognition in the beverage industries.

A contamination-free aseptic sampling system, initially developed for the milk processing industry by leading hygienic valve specialists Sudmo, is now gaining international recognition in the brewing and beverage industries, ensuring they maintain the highest possible quality for their products. Qualified laboratory personnel and a suitably equipped laboratory require aseptic sampling to prove that filling systems are themselves aseptic. The Sudmo sampling system prevents germs entering the sampling process from the environment and thereby avoids contamination, which can affect any results through secondary infection.

A germ-free environment during continuous 24-hour production is one of the principle demands the beverage industry makes on the process periphery of cold aseptic filling (CAF) systems.

In order to prove sterility, any corresponding sampling system must provide an aseptic mode of operation.

This fully-automatic system for contamination-free sampling can be used for products with a viscosity of up to 100 mPas.

Essentially, it consists of a dead space-free valve block with an inline housing connection and is equipped with three miniature fold bellows valves.

One of the valves and the pipeline system to be sampled are connected via an inline connection.

The two other valves serve to import steam and flushing water into the sampling system.

A sampling station is connected to this valve block via a pipeline, into which a sampling bottle can be inserted via a special sampling lock.

The system is sealed by a combination consisting of a PT-100 resistance thermometer, a steam trap and two aseptic valves via which the condensate, flushing water and the CIP (cleaning in process) media can be separated.

Easy Dismantling.

During the design phase special consideration has been given to the sampling bottle stopper.

It is designed similar to a keg flat fitting and consists of a minimum number of parts that can be dismantled and reassembled with the minimum of effort.

The stopper has a spring-loaded locking pin, which can only be pressed towards the inside.

In contrast to other competitive systems, the bottle can be removed after sampling without other components.

After processing the specimen, the bottle and the dismantled stopper are cleaned, re-assembled and subsequently autoclaved as a complete unit.

This guarantees the sampling bottle is in perfect hygienic condition before the next sampling.

Handling the sampling bottle when placing it into the pick-up unit is extremely easy and can even be performed single handed.

A locking bar makes the operation ergonomic, simple and safe.

After the pick-up unit has been clamped and mechanically secured, the automatic sampling cycle can be started.

It automatically performs a series of steps, which carry out the following functions sequentially under temperature and/or time-controlled conditions:.

* Steaming of the inside of the sampling system at up to 150C in order to sterilize all areas.

* Defined cooling phase, in order to avoid a thermal change of the specimen when being transferred to the sampling bottle.

* Transfer of the specimen from the pipeline system to the sampling bottle, in which the drive of the pick-up unit presses the locking pin towards the inside during pulse/pause operation, thereby releasing the flow path of the liquid to be sampled into the sampling bottle.

* Flushing the sampling system to remove product residue.

The Sudmo aseptic sampling system unit is available in various design formats.

The simplest design is limited to the mechanical components.

The scope of delivery includes valve technology together with complete piping and adaptation in the process pipe.

This design offers customers the advantage of integrating the unit with an existing control system.

As an extended expansion level Sudmo offers automation and a switch cabinet with corresponding peripheral equipment.

In this case, the manufacturer also is able to carry out the commissioning.

A stand-alone unit, which is factory-fitted with a standard switch cabinet, can be integrated on site directly via aseptic flange connections with the higher-ranking process in accordance with the plug-and-play principle.

The operator has the option of choosing between individual and collective specimens and can start the function at the sampling system directly with the push of a button.

Overall, the complete system offers safe and simple operation providing companies with complete peace of mind; furthermore, the design fully meets all hygiene requirements.