A device (1) for detecting a concentration of predetermined particles, particularly viruses, in air (3) with organic and/or inorganic aerosol particles, has a supply unit (10), an imaging unit (20), an image acquisition unit (40) and an evaluation unit (50). The supply unit (10) binds the aerosol particles as particles in a fluid (4). The imaging unit (20) operates on the functional principle of a scanning electron microscope in order to generate an enlarged image of the particles contained in the fluid (4). The image acquisition unit (40) acquires and transmits the image. The evaluation unit (50) evaluates the particles depicted in the image. The evaluation unit (50) automatically detects morphological properties of the particles depicted in the image and compares the detected morphological properties with morphological properties of the predetermined particles. Through the comparison, it determines a proportion and/or number of predetermined particles in the image and the concentration of the predetermined particles in the air (3).

The techniques disclosed in the present specification relate to devices, systems, and methods using the same that generate cigarette smoke and then separate and collect substances of the cigarette smoke generated into particulate and gaseous substances for the preparation of a whole cigarette smoke condensate, which may comprise: a cigarette mount on which one or more cigarettes are mounted; an automatic ignition device for igniting the one or more cigarettes; a cigarette smoke collection unit for collecting substances of cigarette smoke generated from the ignited one or more cigarettes; one or more cigarette smoke intake lines configured to suck the cigarette smoke; one or more cigarette smoke exhaust lines configured to discharge the cigarette smoke; and one or more collection unit connecting lines connected to the cigarette smoke collection unit.

The present invention relates to a shale gas extracting device, and provides a shale gas extracting device comprising: a canister, which is vertically and rotatably provided on a canister support vertically provided on both sides of a base, has an receiving space for accommodating a drilled rock sample and a ball mill together in a sealed manner, and has an injection opening at one side of a top thereof; a driving means for vibrating the canister such that the rock sample is crushed by mixing with the ball mill accommodated in the canister; a heating means for heating the canister; and a vacuum pipe, a pressure pipe, a sensor pipe, an injection pipe and an extracting pipe sequentially and detachably coupled to the injection opening of the canister.

A method for collecting particles or gaseous chemicals is provided. The method includes providing liquid to a tube of a droplet generator, heating, with a heater of the droplet generator, the tube to provide vapor to a gas flow channel inside the tube, passing a gas flow containing the particles or gaseous chemicals through the gas flow channel inside the tube to obtain droplets including the particles or gaseous chemicals, and passing the droplets including the particles or gaseous chemicals to a wall of a collecting device such that the droplets including the particles or gaseous chemicals hit the wall. The temperature inside the gas flow channel is higher than a temperature inside the collecting device.

According to one embodiment, a chemical sensor includes a sensor element. The sensor element includes a sensitive film and a treatment material. Physical properties of the sensitive film vary as bonding of a target substance to the sensitive film. The sensor element is configured to detect the variation in the physical properties. The treatment material is configured to carry out a treatment onto the target substance before the target substance bonds to the sensitive film. The treatment enhances the variation in the physical properties as compared to a case without the treatment.

The present invention provides a method for determining hydrogen sulfide (H.sub.2S) by headspace single-drop liquid phase microextraction and intelligent device colorimetry, which comprises: taking a silver-gold core-shell triangular nanosheet (Ag@Au TNS) as a nanodetection probe, in combination with an analysis method of headspace single-drop microextraction (HS-SDME), specifically extracting H.sub.2S volatilized from a sample to be detected by the nanodetection probe, and detecting H.sub.2S in the extracted sample with the help of the photographing function of an intelligent device and a color picking software. Compared with the prior art, the present invention adopts intelligent device colorimetry, with the limit of detection of about 65 nM and the linear range of 0.1-100 μM, and the established method can be applied to the determination of H.sub.2S in actual samples such as egg white, milk and other opaque samples, and has the advantages of few procedures, simple operation, high detection efficiency and the like.

A system for collecting a biological sample from a passenger cabin includes a collector for collecting particulate samples positioned within at least one of an outlet flow path or a recirculation flow path. The system includes at least one of an outflow valve positioned in the outlet flow path downstream from the collector or a HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter positioned in the recirculation flow path downstream from the collector. A method for collecting particulates from cabin air includes capturing particulates in at least one of an outlet flow path or a recirculation flow path with a collector for a period of time, removing the collector from at least one of the outlet flow path or the recirculation flow path for testing, and inserting a clean collector into at least one of the outlet flow path or the recirculation flow path for use during another period of time.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems associated with aerosol collection devices (such as, but not limited to, breath-aerosol collector devices, breathalyzers) are provided. An example aerosol collection device includes a sample transfer adapter configured to receive a sample and a device body connected to the sample transfer adapter. In some examples, the device body defines a flow channel that guides the sample to a filter component, and the filter component contains a buffer solution.

The techniques disclosed in the present specification relate to devices, systems, and methods using the same that generate cigarette smoke and then separate and collect substances of the cigarette smoke generated into particulate and gaseous substances for the preparation of a whole cigarette smoke condensate, which may comprise: a cigarette mount on which one or more cigarettes are mounted; an automatic ignition device for igniting the one or more cigarettes; a cigarette smoke collection unit for collecting substances of cigarette smoke generated from the ignited one or more cigarettes; one or more cigarette smoke intake lines configured to suck the cigarette smoke; one or more cigarette smoke exhaust lines configured to discharge the cigarette smoke; and one or more collection unit connecting lines connected to the cigarette smoke collection unit.

Methods for sampling the particulates and substances emitted from a test sample when the surface of the sample is ablated. The disclosed sampling chamber and methods avoids the need for clean rooms and other expensive testing apparatus and can be used to test a variety of materials in accordance with standard measurement procedures. Use of the testing chamber and methods assists with safety and risk evaluation in applications such as painting and removal of coatings.