The present invention relates to a method and system for measuring total chloride content in a process product stream. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of measuring hydrogen chloride and organochloride content, in situ, for a gaseous refinery process product stream. This method allows for measurement of hydrogen chloride and organochloride content in a single test method, which allows for optimised performance and maintenance schedules for chloride guard beds used within the refinery process.

Methods and systems to monitor and analysis unconventional reservoirs with wellbores with a substantially horizontal section. Monitoring and analysis is conducted in three dimensions using high-resolution geochemical fingerprinting analyses of rock samples and produced oil samples. The invention uses methods to preserve, prepare, extract, and/or analyze hydrocarbons in the pore spaces of or adsorbed in organic-rich rock samples, such as, but not limited to, drill cuttings and drill cores, using one or more combinations of physical energy sources, including, but not limited to, thermal, vapor pressure, and mechanical stress. The collected samples are transported and prepared in low temperature conditions, with parts of subsequent processing at very low temperatures, thereby allowing a fuller measurement of geochemical fingerprints for the extracted hydrocarbons using various analysis tools. More particularly, the treatment and process allows geochemical fingerprinting to very low carbon number ranges. The techniques of the present invention may be used to optimize well stacking and spacing, completion design, and cluster efficiency evaluation to improve unconventional reservoir economics.

Techniques for detecting cannabinoid, opioid, and virus aerosols in an exhaled breath are provided. An example method of identifying a virus-containing aerosol in exhaled breath includes capturing a breath input in an aerosol filter cartridge, disposing the aerosol filter cartridge in an optical path in a spectroscopy system, detecting one or more infrared spectral features of the breath input with the spectroscopy system, and identifying the virus-containing aerosol based on the one or more infrared spectral features.

The present invention relates to a method for simultaneous analysis of radiocarbon and tritium, the method including (i) mixing a radioactive waste sample containing a radiocarbon nuclide and tritiated water, and an oxidizing agent; (ii) oxidizing the radiocarbon nuclide in the radioactive waste sample to a gas containing an oxide of the radiocarbon nuclide by the oxidizing agent while suppressing volatilization of compounds containing gamma radionuclides other than the radiocarbon nuclide and tritium; (iii) discharging the gas containing an oxide of the radiocarbon nuclide by injecting an inert gas to the mixture; (iv) vaporizing and discharging the tritiated water in the mixture; and (v) analyzing radioactivity of radiocarbon and tritium from the discharged gas containing an oxide of the radiocarbon nuclide and tritiated water, and an apparatus for analysis of the same.

A microfluidic preconcentrator is provided, designed to receive a gas sample containing gaseous pollutants such as volatile organic compounds, to concentrate the gaseous pollutants and to transfer them to an analysis device. An assembly comprising an enclosure, a microfluidic preconcentrator, connectors and a means for holding the microfluidic preconcentrator inside the enclosure, a heating device and a cooling device, are provided.

The invention relates to a device and method for in situ temperature-induced antigen retrieval of samples wherein all steps are performed under a pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure on a sample immobilized on a sample support which can be further subjected to staining and imaging on the same sample support, optionally by cycle multiplexing that enables imaging of various molecular targets through multi-molecular read-outs on the same sample in a rapid, highly sensitive and reliable manner.

The present invention relates to a system for detecting biological viral particles emitted into the air by a living being by means of an expiratory air volume, comprising at least one detecting and processing device of said expiratory air volume, capable of detecting a sample of said expiratory air volume and of condensing it into a condensed sample to be analyzed, and at least one analyzing device, connected to said detecting and processing device, capable of receiving said condensed sample, of detecting electrical signals associated with said condensed sample and of processing said electrical signals, so as to detect the viral biological particles contained therein.

Methods for determining the hardness and/or ductility of a material by compression of the material are provided as a first aspect of the invention. Typically, compression is performed on multiple sides of a geologic material sample in a contemporaneous manner. Devices and systems for performing such methods also are provided. These methods, devices, and systems can be combined with additional methods, devices, and systems of the invention that provide for the analysis of compounds contained in such samples, which can indicate the presence of valuable materials, such as petroleum-associated hydrocarbons. Alternatively, these additional methods, devices, and systems can also stand independently of the methods, devices, and systems for analyzing ductility and/or hardness of materials.

A sheath flow device for an evaporation light scattering detector comprises an evaporation pipe fastener (110), an evaporation pipe heat insulating component (120), a sheath flow nozzle blocking plate (130), a sheath flow nozzle (140), a sheath flow sleeve (150), a sheath flow outlet piece (170) and a stainless steel spray needle (160). The evaporation pipe fastener, the evaporation pipe heat insulating component, the sheath flow nozzle blocking plate, the sheath flow nozzle, the sheath flow sleeve and the sheath flow outlet piece are concentrically connected orderly from front to back, and all provided with concentric inner holes. Said device is applicable to ELSD sheath flow devices ranging from nanoliter-scale to microliter-scale. On one hand, material particles entering a testing pool are enveloped and aggregated so that the formation of eddy and turbulence can be reduced, the chromatographic peak shape of a sample can be improved and the stability of sample detection can be enhanced; on the other hand, the testing pool can be cleaned so that baseline noise can be reduced and the signal to noise ratio can be increased.

Methods for preparing a biological sample for testing by Maldi where such methods are selected based on sample parameters. Maldi scores are obtained for a range of sample parameters (e.g. McFarland, dispense volume and number of dispenses). From the data, sample preparation parameters can be selected for a biological sample being prepared for Maldi testing. One sample preparation strategy uses multiple dispenses of sample with an intervening drying step, which yields more accurate Maldi scores, particularly for samples at the low range of McFarland values (e.g. below about 2).