YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT MANY ADVANCES IN HARDWARE, SENSORS AND CONTROLS THESE HIGHLIGHT THE NEED FOR IMPROVED SAMPLING TECHNOLOGIES

(New Sampling/Sensor Initiative) NeSSI ExxonMobil, Dow, CPAC

Today’s Typical Production Sampling Technology Courtesy of a major petrochemical facility

NeSSI Pilatform photo courtesy of Swagelok ® Now commercialized by Swagelok, Parker Hannifin, and Circor

NeSSI™ - objectives Facilitate the acceptance / implementation of modular, miniature & smart sample system technology based on ANSI/ISA SP76 standard Provide a technology bridge to the process for...“sensor/lab-on-a-chip” micro-analytical devices Promote the concept of field-mounted (By-Line) smart analytical systems Lay the groundwork for Pipe to Pixel™ open connectivity architecture for intrinsically safe transducer communications and industry standard communication protocols

Metering Valve Adapter Regulator Manual & Air Op 2-way Diaphragm Inline & By pass Filters - Sintered & Borosilicate Toggle Relief Check Needle Non-Spill Quick Disconnect Surface Mount Flow Components Many different physical controls and conditioning components available

Programmable Substrate Heater NeSSI “Sandwich” concept Ethernet LAN Analyzer Controller V A P F SAM CANbus PDA Auxiliary Heating/Cooling Substrate T T Standard Sampling Interface dcs o&m user Standard Connectivity Interface Development Focus can be on Sensors ! R. Dubois, Dow

The NeSSI Platform Will Also Become the Base for a Micro-Analytical Lab NMR MS NIR RAMAN LC GC FIA Particle Size Viscosity Moisture Conductivity Mass Flow Etc.

UV, NIR, Dielectric, Raman, and IR for NeSSI ♦

Interfacing NeSSI™ to ASI microFast GC™ Complete gas/vapor sensing test platform on the bench top Gas delivery, vapor generation, and blending in NeSSI™ Real time verification of composition using GC and EP-IR Easily extended to include other analytical and sample treatments Vapochromic sensor optical cell GC sipper port EP-IR gas cell

Liquid Chromatography for NeSSI™ micromixer diluent in column mobile phase in sample in Scott Gilbert, CPAC Visiting Scholar Crystal Vision Microsystems LLC Atofluidic Technologies, LLC Split flow approach to sampling  -fluidic LC Chip for On-line Sample Pretreatment Pulsed electrochemical detection (on-chip) Liters per minute microliters per minute nanoliters per minute

Sensing Technologies for NeSSI Gas Chromatography Thermal Desorption Thermal DesorptionDielectricSpectroscopies IR, NIR IR, NIR UV- Vis UV- Vis Raman Raman Fluorescence FluorescenceImpedanceConductivity Refractive Index Vapochromic Sensors GLRS Particle Sizing Light scattering Light scatteringTurbiditypHRGA Mass Spectrometry LC, SEC, IC Terahertz ?

Introduction: the NeSSI generations

Marketing Publications –increasing number of articles and reviews of NeSSI Media pack –media pack prepared Wiki –we’re in the world’s encyclopaedia History –we’re so old that we have an auto-biography And our home library is still at the CPAC site

Publications

Media pack

Wiki

Autobiography

CPAC NeSSI website

The big issues Gen I: fluid handling Demonstrating the value proposition Generation II: networked connectivity Commonality of network design / avoiding bus wars Establishing and maintaining comms standard Establishing and maintaining a data standard  Topics for this evening’s workshop Generation III: microanalytical systems Getting the momentum of an initiative