Featured in Pipeline Magazine: Things Will Never Be the Same
September 26, 2010
Monitor Instruments, US-based developer and leader in miniature mass analyser technologies, along with scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently detected a plume of hydrocarbons that is at least 22 miles long and more than 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a residue of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Anthony Duryea, President of Monitor Instruments said: "Our Sea Monitor™ (Mass Spectrometer) unit's size and sample specificity gave the scientists the ability to make their determinations. The small size and weight of the system allowed it to be integrated into an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for rapid and comprehensive analysis of the underwater plume. In conjunction with scientists from WHOI we are now in a position to track this plume and to seek out other underwater petroleum leaks, both naturally occurring and leaks from other well sites.
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About Monitor Instruments
Monitor Instruments Company LLC was founded in 1992 as the Monitor Group, to develop chemical analysis instrumentation for emerging requirements in laboratory, industrial, biomedical and field portable applications. There was, and continues to be, a growing unfilled need for smaller, faster, reliable and economically priced instruments with high-end performance. Mass spectrometry – specifically cycloidal designs - was identified as the technology most likely to satisfy this emerging market need.
The initial research and development program was focused on linear cycloidal technology. The intent was to miniaturize this design while maintaining the performance characteristics needed by the market. This effort produced a patented miniature ionizer and ion optics design, which was incorporated in prototype instruments used in field testing. Lessons learned in this extensive four-year field test and evaluation program were continuously incorporated in both hardware and software. The result was the field tested Series 3000 cycloidal mass spectrometers.
