Selective detection of vapors
CA 2020753 A1 · Owner: Carroll, Alf L. · Inventors: Wendel, Gregory J.; Fraim, Freeman W.; Hainsworth, Eugenie
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A highly selective sensitive, fast detection, system and method are disclosed for detecting vapors of specific compounds in air. Vapors emanating from compounds such as explosives, or stripped from surfaces using heat and suction from a hand-held sample gun, are collected on surfaces coated with gas chromatograph (GC) material which trap explosives vapors but repel nitric oxide, then are desorbed and concentrated in one or more cold spot concentrators. A high speed gas chromatograph (GC) separates the vapors, after which specific vapors are decomposed in two pyrolyzers arranged in parallel and the resulting nitric oxide is detected. A low temperature pyrolyzer with silver produces NO from …
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- Filed July 9, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 9, 2010.
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