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Uses For Specialty And Calibration Gases

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Whether you are familiar with them or not, specialty and calibration gases play a very large role in your life.
Specialty or calibration gases or cal gases as some call them help monitor processes that govern our lives and
keep us safe. A specialty gas or calibration gas is simply a mixture of gases that is used to calibrate a gas
chromatograph. A gas chromatograph is an instrument very common in the field of analytical chemistry that
analyzes samples of liquids or gases and breaks a mixture down into it's individual components and also quantifies
them. Gas and liquid mixtures are used to calibrate them. Cal gases serve two roles in analytical chemistry. First,
they reveal the elution time for certain chemicals with respect to a certain set of parameters on a Gas
Chromatograph (GC). Additionally, they help set response factors that allow the quantification of identified peaks in
a mixture sample. So, what are some examples where cal gases used to calibrate GC's influence our lives behind
the scenes?

Commodities. Natural gas prices is the first and most common example. The pricing of natural gas is determined by
the components in natural gas as well as their concentrations. BTU reference standards a prepared by chemists
using known components and known concentration of those components carefully measured out so as to prepare a
reference standard of known component identification, concentration as well as known BTU value per cubic foot of
gas. BTU reference standards such as this are use to monitor and price the gas that passes through pipelines and
ultimately to our homes.

Safety. Calibration gases are use to monitor atmospheres that are worked in by plant employees, city workers and
personnel entering into confined spaces. Of the most common types of monitoring is monitoring for Hydrogen
Sulfide, Carbon Monoxide, the Lower Explosive Limit of fuel type gases such as natural gas and gasoline fumes, as
well as oxygen in a potentially oxygen deficient atmosphere such as is common in confined space entry jobs such
as tank maintenance.

Environmental Science. Industry can be a very dirty business if it is not controlled responsibility. Many industrial
facilities have the potential to release very harmful chemical into the environment if not remediated properly before
release. Incineration is the most common method of remediation in the chemical industry, particularly in sectors of
the petrochemical industry. Reference standards referred to as "refinery gas" standards are used to monitor the
components and concentrations of potentially harmful gases before they are incinerated. The point of incineration
is referred to as a flare. A flare converts the majority of harmful chemical so simple carbon dioxide and water, very
similar to what you breathe out when you exhale. In the specialty and calibration gas industry, reference standards
are formulated so as to calibrate GC's specifically set up to analyze refinery gas or flue gas as it is referred to by
some.

Chemistry is a fascinating field of study. Specialty gas is only a slice of this fascinating field of study. If you are
interested in science, chemistry is a great avenue to pursue.

Are you interested in setting up a home, high school, college or industrial lab with chemistry lab equipment? If so,
then check out chemistry-lab-equipment.com to find basic chemistry lab supplies.

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