Author: Liz Roberts

 

Meet Kore scientists and challenge us to solve your analytical problems! Over the upcoming months, Kore scientists will be attending several conferences and exhibitions. Do come and meet us face-to-face, to discuss your analytical challenges. We’ll do our best to help!

 

The Joint European Vacuum Conference, European Conference on Surface Science, Vacuum Symposium and RGA User’s Meeting

On 17^th to 21^st June 2024, we’ll be at the Harrogate Convention Centre for this joint European conference, which provides scientists, researchers and engineers from across Europe, and working in academia, national labs and industry, the opportunity to meet and discuss the latest advances in the physics and chemistry of surfaces, plasma physics, gas dynamics, vacuum metrology and vacuum technologies  as well as their industrial applications.

 

International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials

On 1^st to 5^th July 2024, you can find us at Queen Mary University of London, participating in the world’s leading platform for ion beam experts and educators to exchange and report their most recent significant findings in the ion beam community. The scope of the conference ranges from fundamental radiation materials science to industry applications. We expect vibrant interdisciplinary interaction among physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers, and anybody who is interested in the use of ion beams for surface and material modification in their research and/or industrial application.

 

International Symposium on Gas Kinetics and Related Phenomena

On 15^th to 18^th July 2024, Kore scientists will attend the University of Leeds for this Symposium, which provides an open forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest experimental and theoretical research on a wide range of topics related to gas phase chemical kinetics. The Symposium is organised under the auspices of the Gas Kinetics Interest Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, covering all aspects of atmospheric and combustion chemistry, as well as astrochemistry and planetary atmospheres, with an increasing role for kinetics of heterogeneous and surface chemistry.

 

Joint Water, Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring (WWEM) and Air Quality and Emissions (AQE) Show

On 9th and 10^th October 2024, come and meet us at the NEC, Birmingham. WWEM focuses on instrumentation and services for water and wastewater process monitoring, and AQE focuses on instrumentation and services for air quality and emissions monitoring. This large show offers a technical program to update delegates on the latest trends, regulations, methods, techniques and technologies. We expect to meet suppliers, regulators and end-users who monitor, test and analyse water and air.

 

With over 30 years at the heart of innovative analysis, we are experts in creating bespoke solutions across a spectrum of applications in vacuum physics, surface analysis and TOF-MS. If you’re attending the above conferences, come and challenge us! We would love to learn about your real-world analytical problems and use our practical and theoretical know-how to create an innovative solution customised for you.

 

Curious? A quick glance at the product pages of our website will give you a good sense of what we offer.

 

We look forward to meeting you.

AIR-QUALITY MONITORING AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS 2022 AND ASIAN GAMES 2023

Air-quality measurements have increasingly become mandatory at large sporting and cultural events, and the Kore PTR 3c is perfectly designed to provide real-time, sensitive air-quality monitoring. Our collaborators and partners in China for volatile organic compound (VOC) and environmental monitoring applications (Beijing SDL Technology Co. Ltd.,) have deployed the Kore PTR 3c for real-time VOC monitoring at major events in China, to support this growing need.

The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing provided a high-profile opportunity for the PTR 3c to be deployed locally by SDL, to provide the air-quality assurance demanded by the Chinese Environmental Protection Agency. SDL mobilized three continuous-monitoring teams across the Olympic park, reliably generating multiple hours of spatiotemporal VOC profiling for real-time feedback to the Olympic organizing committee.

During the Asian Games and Para Games in 2023, SDL once again responded to the call from the Asian Games Committee to ensure air quality around Hangzhou, China, with their vehicles monitoring VOCs using the Kore PTR 3c, as well as other atmospheric pollutants such as PM2.5, NOx and SO2. Kore’s PTR 3c instruments have been deployed for measurement of VOCs released from industrial parks across China and globally, as well as onboard drone and aircraft flights to monitor atmospheric air quality.

We are excited to be working closely with SDL on these important Kore PTR 3c deployments for major sporting and cultural events and look forward to continuing our successful partnership.

More information on the Kore PTR 3c can be found here: PTR-MS – PTR 3c | Kore Technology

 

As well as being highly detrimental to marine ecosystems, oil spills can have heavy financial implications for marine operators. Oil spill researcher Dr. Brian Mitchell, at MERL-Consulting SAS (France), used Kore’s portable mass spectrometer, the MS-200, to investigate the possibility of analysing oil spills in real time out in the field (quite literally). Rapid analysis or ‘fingerprinting’ of the oil can pinpoint the origin of the spill, expediting intervention and thereby reducing the financial and environmental toll of the spill.

MERL-Consulting and Pierre Briallart of Expert Pollution Control collaborated with Kore scientist Fraser Reich to develop their analytical protocol on the CEDRE artificial beach. They then carried out their experimental measurements at the site of a real pipeline spill that had occurred two years previously.

Mitchell and colleagues found that the MS-200 was able to identify the spectrum of the oil pollution, even though the oil was two years old. Brian Mitchell presented his important work at the 45th Arctic and Marine Oilspill Program (AMOP) Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response, hosted by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). This seminar provides a significant international forum for professionals working in the field of oil and hazardous materials spills, facilitating the transfer of scientific results and linking the operational and research communities. Kore is proud to support the valuable work of Brian Mitchell and his colleagues in this endeavour.

Publication: Mitchell JBA, Le Garrec J-L, Le Bris N, Briallart P, Reich F, Le Floch S and Jézéquel R (2023) In-situ Identification of Spilled Oils Using Mass Spectrometry. In: Proceedings of the Forty-Fifth AMOP Technical Seminar, Environment and Climate Change. Ottawa, ON, Canada. pp470-480.

 

 

Main image: The CEDRE artificial beach provides a controlled environment for marine and coastal experiments.

Left image: Fraser Reich (Kore Technology, left) and James Brian Mitchell (MERL-Consulting, right) at the CEDRE artificial beach.

Right image: Tests using the Kore MS-200 being carried out by Pierre Briallart (Expert Pollution Control Co.) at the site of the pipeline spill.