The Analyzer Source

Join us on the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses Program Track at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans to hear @pidguy's *true story* 26 - Developing and marketing an environmental instrumentation company: A forty year perspective Jack N. Driscoll , PID Analyzers, LLC, Sandwich, MA 02563, United States HNU Systems, Inc., was founded by Driscoll & Spaziani in December 1973, intending to develop a new technology, photoionization detection (PID), for the analysis of environmental pollutants. We went to NIOSH in Cincinnati to explore potential uses of PID in industrial hygiene. During our visit, a scientist at NIOSH said, "If you had a portable instrument that would measure vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at 1 ppm, we would be very interested." We went to a gas company the next day to get a lecture bottle of VCM and that afternoon we had a VCM monitor. A working prototype portable (battery operated) PID was built for the AIHCE show and, two months later,

Accepted for presentation at the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting 2013 in New Orleans, LA in the Air Monitoring Symposium in the ACS Division of  Environmental Chemistry.   Co-sponsored by the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry . 508 - Monitoring ppb levels of ambient air pollutants via hyphenated techniques: HRGC/ in-series selective detection Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:30 AM Air Monitoring (08:30 AM - 11:55 AM) Location: New Orleans Downtown Marriott at the Convention Center Room: Blaine Kern B Jack N Driscoll , Jennifer L Maclachlan.  PID Analyzers, LLC , Sandwich, Massachusetts, MA 02563, United States High resolution gas chromatography (HRGC) with a capillary column (50,000 to 100,000 theoretical plates) is an efficient and effective means for separation of a complex mixture of chemicals in the ambient air. Since retention times are used for identification, either a second column with a different polarity or the ratio

  Arsenic contamination in food and water~featured thematic program track at #ACSNOLA     Speakers and Affiliations for Arsenic Contamination in Food Water two day event at #ACSNOLA     Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water~An AGRO Division co-sponsored program

Microsoft Office clip art found using keyword *soil* HNU DL101 being used on a hazwaste site Photo courtesy: PID Analyzers, LLC I came across this HNU PID inspired clip art depicting a hazmat suit clad worker taking readings on a hazardous waste site with an analyzer: our Model 101 series PID analyzer . The PI101 was the field analytical instrument of choice based on performance, reliability and ruggedness on Superfund Sites in the 1980's. In fact, since this was such an essential part of our business, we developed a "hazardous waste site" version of this analyzer in the late 1980's  called the HW-101. The PI101 utilized a fan to pull in the air sample, but the HW101 employed a pump. 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the commercialization of photoionization by Jack Driscoll . We celebrated the Chemistry of Industrial Hygiene during the International Year of Chemistry and garnered some sensational press from our local newspaper. Stay tuned to see wha