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ABSTRACT SYMPOSIUM NAME:  Entrepreneurs' Poster Session ABSTRACT SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM AREA NAME:  SCHB CONTROL ID:  2861977 PRESENTATION TYPE:  Poster Only : Consider for Sci-Mix TITLE:  Learn how SCHB assists innovators and entrepreneurs in the chemistry enterprise AUTHORS (FIRST NAME, LAST NAME):  Peter C. Lauro 1 ,  Mukund Chorghade 1 ,  Abhishek Kantak 1 ,  David J. Deutsch 1 ,  Joseph E. Sabol 1 ,  Jennifer L. Maclachlan 1 ,  Carlyn A. Burton 1 ,  Erika L. Oltermann 1 ,  Janet L. Bryant 1 , Thomas Siepmann 1 ,  George W. Ruger 1 ,  Pete J. Bonk 1 ,  Rajeev Chorghade 1 ,  Niteen A. Vaidya 1 ,  Anis Rahman 1 INSTITUTIONS (ALL):  1. SCHB, Boston, MA, United States.  ABSTRACT BODY:  Abstract:  The ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses (SCHB) has objectives “To aid in the formation, development, and growth of small chemical businesses.” SCHB helps chemists working in small enterprises, including self-employed, with the legal, social, educational, legislative, regulatory, a

On January 1, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency required large emitters of heat-trapping emissions to begin collecting greenhouse gas data under a new reporting system. Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and are considered the main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. These gases absorb strongly in the infrared trapping heat in the atmosphere and affecting the temperature on the Earth. These gases have been measured using expensive long path infrared analyzers or complex gas chromatography using as many as three detectors and three valves. We developed a far UV absorbance detector (FUV 1) that we will apply to analysis of all three gases. It will just require a concentrator to detect ppb levels of these gases. The FUV detector recently has been improved so that it can detect low ppm levels of these compounds. We had developed a concentrator for N 2 O that could also be used for CO 2 and plan some additional changes to the FUV to i