A hydrogen sulfide (H.sub.2S) detecting apparatus for measuring the concentrations of hydrogen sulfide species in a given sample is disclosed. The hydrogen sulfide detecting apparatus can comprise a plurality of reaction chambers separated from a plurality of trapping chambers by a (H.sub.2S) permeable membrane, with the reaction chambers and trapping chambers each having buffer component(s) and/or reactive agents that expose the incoming sample to a particular pH and chemical environment in order to allow for the selective liberation and trapping of hydrogen sulfide from the sample.

An apparatus, for detecting mercury and total organic carbon, includes a first three-way T connected to a tube furnace, an absorption cell, and a three-way solenoid valve connected to a pressure regulator and a halogen trap. The tube furnace generates burnt products of samples including carbon dioxide, halogen acid, and mercury. The tube furnace is connected to a cylindrical outlet containing a mercury collection tube, which contains an absorptive material comprising gold particles and is disposed in the cylindrical outlet such that gases passing through the cylindrical outlet pass entirely through the mercury collection tube. The pressure regulator regulates a flow speed of an air or oxygen flow fed into the second three-way solenoid valve. The halogen trap removes the halogen acid from the burnt products. The apparatus further includes a non-dispersive infrared detector coupled to the halogen trap and detecting the carbon dioxide in the burnt products.

A system and method to measure the amount of a gas dissolved in a fluid is described. The fluid is transferred to an equilibrator and pH is adjusted so that the equilibrium between the gas and its ions in the fluid is displaced towards more gas, so that the measurement may be carried out when there is proportionally more gas in the fluid.

A method for identification of a vapor sample or chemicals in a vapor sample includes introducing a vapor sample to a sensor array including a plurality of sensors, adjusting a temperature of one or more of the plurality of sensors between at least two temperature levels, and identifying the vapor sample or one or more chemicals in the vapor sample based on a plurality of response patterns of the sensor array, each of the response patterns being a collection of responses of the plurality of sensors to the vapor sample with the one or more sensors being at a different temperature level from among the at least two temperature levels.

An electronic device includes a casing, a compartment and an actuating and sensing module. The casing has an opening. The compartment is disposed within the casing and in communication with the opening of the casing. The actuating and sensing module is disposed within the compartment. The actuating and sensing module comprises a fluid transportation device and a sensor. The fluid transportation device is driven to transport a fluid from outside the casing into the compartment through the opening of the casing to make the fluid sensed by the sensor.

Provided is an analysis device capable of obtaining sufficient sensitivity to a gas phase component, which is the analysis target, by a mass spectrometer even when a reactive gas is used as a carrier gas in evolved gas analysis. An analysis device 1 includes a heating device 3, a first carrier gas introduction device 4, a connecting conduit 5, a capillary tube 6, an oven 2, a mass spectrometer 7, and a second carrier gas introduction device 8. The second carrier gas introduction device 8 is configured to introduce helium, hydrogen and/or nitrogen into the connecting conduit 5.

A filter includes a filter media material through which a gas is transportable, a first metal salt immobilized upon the filter media material and a second metal salt immobilized upon the filter media material, wherein the first metal salt and the second metal salt are immobilized upon the filter media material from an aqueous solution comprising the first metal salt and the second metal salt.

A gas detection apparatus for detecting the concentration of a first gas component contained in a gas under measurement includes a gas conversion section for convening the first gas component to a second gas component, a gas detection section whose electrical characteristics change with a change in the concentration of the second gas component when the gas detection section is in an activated state, and a detection state setting section. During a detection period, the detection state setting section sets the state of gas detection by the gas detection section to a detection executed state in which the gas detection section can detect the second gas component. During periods which are not the detection period, the detection state setting section sets the state of gas detection by the gas detection section to a detection suspended state in which the gas detection section does not detect the second gas component.

The present invention provides a catalytic conversion-type sensor that detects a detection target gas by detecting a conversion gas produced through a reaction, the catalytic conversion-type sensor including: a gas flow path that allows the detection target gas to flow down; and a conversion portion that is connected to the gas flow path, the conversion portion including, on a side partitioned by a diffusion means that allows the detection target gas to naturally diffuse, a heated catalyst portion that produces a conversion gas by causing the detection target gas to come into contact with a heated catalyst and react with the heated catalyst, and a sensor element portion that is capable of detecting the conversion gas produced through the reaction.

A microhotplate comprising a membrane suspended over a substrate by a plurality of tethers connected between the substrate and the membrane. The membrane comprises a resistive heater comprising an electrically conductive material having a varying width from a peripheral portion of the membrane to a center of the membrane. The electrically conductive material comprises a first portion spiraling in a first direction and a second portion spiraling in a second direction and in electrical communication with the first portion at the center of the membrane. The microhotplate further comprises a first electrically conductive trace extending over a first tether and in electrical contact with a bond pad on the substrate and the first portion and a second electrically conductive trace extending over another tether and in electrical contact with another bond pad on the substrate and the second portion. Related chemical sensors and related methods of detecting at least one analyte are also disclosed.