Measuring and testing – Sampler – sample handling – etc. – With constituent separation
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-27
2007-11-27
Williams, Hezron (Department: 2856)
Measuring and testing
Sampler, sample handling, etc.
With constituent separation
Reexamination Certificate
active
11286015
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for controllably releasing contaminants from a contaminated porous metallic mesh by thermally desorbing and releasing a selected subset of contaminants from a contaminated mesh by rapidly raising the mesh to a pre-determined temperature step or plateau that has been chosen beforehand to preferentially desorb a particular chemical specie of interest, but not others. By providing a sufficiently long delay or dwell period in-between heating pulses, and by selecting the optimum plateau temperatures, then different contaminant species can be controllably released in well-defined batches at different times to a chemical detector in gaseous communication with the mesh. For some detectors, such as an Ion Mobility Spectrometer (IMS), separating different species in time before they enter the IMS allows the detector to have an enhanced selectivity.
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Arakaki Lester H.
Bouchier Frank A.
Linker Kevin L.
Theisen Lisa
Fitzgerald John
Sandia Corporation
Watson Robert D.
Williams Hezron
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