Indoor Air & Safety

Real-time, comprehensive evaluation of indoor air quality.

This study demonstrates the ease with which construction materials can be evaluated for their formaldehyde adsorption efficacy, by utilizing direct analysis with selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS). With this approach, merino wool is shown to be extremely effective in adsorbing formaldehyde from air.

Exposure to chloramines is a recognized health hazard in the home, recreation centers, and the workplace.  SIFT-MS easily resolves all chloramines and chlorine and provides results in real-time.  Learn more about how to protect the indoor air safety of your environment.

This brochure outlines several SIFT-MS solutions that provide protection for employees and the general public including fumigant and toxic chemical detection, border security and customs, chemical warfare agent identification, and indoor air safety.

SIFT-MS is the first technology proven capable of rapidly, simply and accurately detecting and quantifying a broad range of fumigants and TICs, without unnecessarily disrupting movements through freight-handling facilities. With an ability to identify compounds well below risk levels for long-term exposure, SIFT-MS is successfully protecting workers in the shipping and border security industries.

SIFT-MS is a proven technology used for real-time monitoring of air quality and non-invasive testing of human breath.
It provides analysis of raw whole-air samples – that is, analysis without sample preparation.  This whitepaper provides an overview of SIFT-MS and its suitability for OSH applications, particularly the monitoring of toxins on workers' breath.

In this webinar, we discuss applications in these areas:

• Real-time IAQ monitoring
• Formaldehyde adsorption by furnishings
• Breath-based monitoring of exposure to volatile compounds
• Protection of frontline workers from fumigation chemicals
• Vehicle interior air quality analysis

A system to differentiate and quantify liquid and headspace leaks from closed system transfer devices (CSTDs) is presented by Dr. Amos Doepke.  Dr. Doepke is a chemist and Senior Service Fellow at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

Direct mass spectrometry (DMS) techniques invariably struggle to speciate ethylbenzene from the xylene isomers, yet increasingly regulators are imposing different emission and exposure limits for these compounds. This application note describes a significant breakthrough for DMS, because selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) can readily achieve direct, realtime speciation of the xylenes from ethylbenzene.

This app note introduces the next generation of SIFT-MS, Syft Tracer^TM, 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.

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. 

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).

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.

In this application note, the performance of SIFT-MS is evaluated for analysis of odors from diverse sources at a modern wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). SIFT-MS provides comprehensive, quantitative profiling of odor sources and can identify operational abnormalities.  In particular, the results presented demonstrate that methyl mercaptan is almost always a more significant odorant at this WWTP than hydrogen sulfide and confirm that the relative abundances of these odorants vary significantly.

SIFT-MS easily detects toxic volatile compounds in container air space such as fumigants and TICs.  Trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are detected in real-time, keeping shipping container workers safe.  Learn about how SIFT-MS is used in the detection of fumigants, TIC, and contraband.