Thermal Desorption-Direct MS: A Breakthrough in Analysis Speed and Throughput


  • Date
    June 18, 2020
  • Time
    8:00 a.m. PDT, 11:00 a.m. EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST - Duration: 60 Minutes

Date : June 18, 2020
Time : 8:00 a.m. PDT, 11:00 a.m. EDT, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CEST - Duration: 60 Minutes
  • Overview

    Sample throughput is often a critical bottleneck for thermal desorption tube (TDT) analysis in the contract testing or research laboratory. By coupling in-line thermal desorption (TD) with selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry, throughputs of up to 20 tubes per hour can be achieved per instrument. This webinar will introduce SIFT-MS, a direct mass spectrometry technique that provides real-time detection of volatile organic compounds and many inorganic gases to sub-part-per-billion concentrations (by volume; ppbV), and explain the rationale behind seamlessly integrating TD with SIFT-MS. In short, the benefits of coupling TD and SIFT-MS are economic distributed sampling (such as for US EPA Method 325) and much higher throughput for an industry-standard sampling media. Analytical performance of TD-SIFT-MS will be described together with a variety of case studies drawn from:
    • Vehicle interior air quality (VIAQ) analysis
    • Environmental monitoring, and
    • Breath research.

    Brought to you by:


    Syft Technologies and GERSTEL

  • Speakers

    Vaughan Langford, Ph.D.
    Principal Scientist,
    Syft Technologies, New Zealand
    Kurt Thaxton
    International Product Manager, Pyrolysis and Thermal Desorption,
    GERSTEL, Germany
    Catherine Dold
    Health & Environment Writer,
    C&EN Media Group