Environmental Odor Analysis

Syft instruments provide a consistent, objective measure of odor. Applications include odor source profiling, landfill and biogas analysis, and fenceline monitoring.

Real-time SIFT-MS analysis enables comprehensive characterization of odor sources

SIFT-MS is an ideal instrument for simply and quantitatively characterizing odor sources in diverse industries and applications. Once characterized, odor issues can be detected immediately and traced back to the source, leading to faster issue resolution. The figure shows odor compounds identified from the emission sources at a gelatin factory. The odor sources have very different emission profiles, facilitating remote identification of each odor source when odor issues arise.

Odorants arising from odor different sources in a gelatin factory (notice that the concentration axis is logarithmic).

Odor Analysis benefits

Comprehensive analysis of inorganics and chromatographically challenging compounds

High sensitivity and wide linearity range for all odor compounds

Mobile instrument solutions

Real-time and high-throughput analysis options

Appropriate for laboratory, on-site, and mobile applications

Sample customers


Odor Analysis resources

Application Note

Real-Time Ambient Air

The sensitivity, selectivity and real-time analysis offered by the SIFT-MS provides simple, reliable and continuous analysis of trace volatile organic compounds in ambient air.

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Environmental Solutions Utilizing SIFT-MS

SIFT-MS has a unique combination of features that allow it to quantify VOCs in real time, with very high selectivity, at the required ambient concentrations, and with wide linear and dynamic ranges.

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Measure Ethylene OxIde In Real-Time

Syft offers a robust, field-deployable solution utilizing state-of-the-art SIFT-MS technology.  Multiple, rapidly switching reagent ions provide high selectivity, allowing for targeting of specific targets such as the epoxide ring of ethylene oxide or the aldehyde group of acetaldehyde.

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Sensory Analysis of Wastewater Odor with SIFT-MS

Can SIFT-MS mimic the response of the human nose and provide “instrumental sensory analysis” characterization?
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Rapid, Comprehensive Landfill Gas Analysis Using SIFT-MS

SIFT-MS provides rapid and comprehensive analysis of landfill gas, making it ideally suited to the complete range of environmental and industrial applications.

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Enhanced Environmental Monitoring 1: Fenceline and Odor Applications

This webinar is the first in a three-part series on enhanced environmental monitoring using SIFT-MS: a direct mass spectrometry (DMS) technique that utilizes ultra-soft chemical ionization to provide continuous sample analysis with high sensitivity and selectivity.
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Odor Characterization

At A Gelatin Factory, Using Sift-Ms

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A Sensory Expert Shares His Experience with SIFT-MS

We asked Mike McGinley, President, St. Croix Sensory, Inc. about his experience using SIFT-MS.  Hear what he had to say about the speed of analysis and flexibility inherent to Syft's product solutions.

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Rapid Odor Screening of Paperboard Using Static Headspace-SIFT-MS

Automated SIFT-MS analysis coupled with multivariate statistical analysis provides rapid sensory screening of paperboard packaging, overcoming the low sample throughput of sensory panels.  The ability to use HS-SIFT-MS to achieve throughput of 12 samples per hour is demonstrated.

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Syft Tracer: The Next Generation of Volatile Impurities Analysis for Enhanced Workflows

This app note introduces the next generation of SIFT-MS, Syft TracerTM, which launched at Pittcon 2023.  It revolutionizes volatile impurities analysis workflows through unparalleled speed, performance stability, and reproducibility.  Learn about how this innovation to real-time trace gas detection outpaces chromatography-based methods in the analysis of challenging analytes such as formaldehyde in a PEG excipient.

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Recent developments and applications of selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT‐MS)

SIFT‐MS is now recognized as the most versatile analytical technique for the identification and quantification of trace gases down to the parts‐per‐trillion by volume, pptv, range. This statement is supported by the wide reach of its applications, from real‐time analysis, obviating sample collection of very humid exhaled breath, to its adoption in industrial scenarios for air quality monitoring. This review touches on the recent extensions to the underpinning ion chemistry kinetics library and the alternative challenge of using nitrogen carrier gas instead of helium. 

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SIFT-MS: Quantifying the Volatiles You Smell . . . and the Toxics You Don’t

SIFT-MS has been widely applied to quantitative analysis of a broad range of VOCs in applications from food products to workplace safety to environmental monitoring, and most recently to pharmaceutical testing. This review surveys the applications of SIFT-MS in odor analysis and in workplace, environmental and consumer protection, with a particular focus on the complementarity of this real-time mass spectrometry analyzer to sensor technology and conventional laboratory techniques—in particular, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC/MS).

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The Latest Innovation of Real-Time, High-Throughput Volatile Impurities Analysis by SIFT-MS

Join us for this webinar to learn about Syft Tracer, the latest advancement of real-time, trace gas analysis by SIFT-MS which launched at Pittcon 2023. Hear how the recent product innovations unlock analytical bottlenecks and enable faster decisions to be made in critical process steps.

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