Join us at the 2023 AWMA Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology conference in Durham, NC from November 14 – 16th, 2023. Our Director of Sales and Business Development, Aurelie Marcotte, will be delivering two insightful presentations about our AROMA analyzers:
Entanglement Technologies will also be exhibiting at Booth #16. Please stop by throughout the conference to connect with our Inside Sales Specialist, Pedro Benavides, and Applications Scientist, Jake Margolis, to discuss your ambient air monitoring applications and learn about our high-performance VOC chemical analyzers.
Interested in scheduling some time to speak directly with our team at or outside of the conference? Contact us.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference and exploring ways to support your air quality monitoring initiatives!
The Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is partnering with Entanglement Technologies to monitor benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene(s) (BTEX), ethylene oxide, and other VOCs with AROMA. Awarded the American Rescue Plan Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring Competitive Grant, Utah DEQ will integrate and deploy AROMA in underserved communities through mobile monitoring and community partnerships with a goal to enhance VOC monitoring and to promote air quality monitoring partnerships between communities and regulatory agencies.
The American Rescue Plan was passed by Congress in spring 2021, providing EPA with a one-time supplemental appropriation of $100M to address health outcome disparities from pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic. $20M of those funds was allocated for a grant competition for community air pollution monitoring. In August 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which provided additional funding to EPA for community air monitoring programs and grants allowing EPA to expand the initial award to $53.4 million to support 132 projects. Read more about the selected projects here: https://www.epa.gov/arp/selections-arp-enhanced-air-quality-monitoring-competitive-grant.
AROMA is ideally suited for mobile air quality monitoring with real-time monitoring, reporting, and part-per-trillion detection limits. The AROMA is easily transitioned from a stationary monitoring site to running in a vehicle in less than 30 minutes with no specific buildout requirements. Contact us to learn more about AROMA or to discuss your mobile monitoring and ambient air monitoring applications.
AROMA instruments are shipping across the United States, filling critical air quality monitoring needs. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) are the latest state agencies to add AROMA-TOX to their arsenal.
The Maine DEP Bureau of Air Quality (BAQ) will be using AROMA-TOX trace chemical analyzer for monitoring benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene(s) (BTEX), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and other relevant volatile organic compounds (VOCs), with an in initial focus on hydrogen sulfide (H2S). AROMA will also be used to support monitoring for the Maine CDC Ambient Air Guidelines (AAGs).
Responsible for most of the ambient air quality monitors located in Maine, the Maine DEP BAQ has been monitoring air quality in Maine since its establishment in 1972. Maine DEP will integrate and deploy Entanglement Technologies’ AROMA-TOX as part of their air monitoring network.
In Colorado, CDPHE is acquiring two AROMA-TOX units, which have the capability to measure BTEX, H2S, HCN, ethylene oxide (EtO) and other VOCs as part of their growing Air Toxics and Ozone Precursor Section. This is the second AROMA acquisition from CDPHE: The Air Pollution Control Division has been using an AROMA-VOC analyzer that is deployed in their CAMML (Colorado Air Monitoring Mobile Laboratory) for monitoring near oil and gas operations.
Entanglement Technologies’ AROMA-TOX is a thermal desorption, cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyzer with the broadest compound coverage in the AROMA family. Equipped with an innovative dual-laser system design, it measures methane, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, H2S, HCN and other small molecules at part-per-billion concentrations in real time. AROMA-TOX also provides parts-per-trillion level speciated VOC data in the field in a short analysis method.
Entanglement Technologies is excited to support Maine DEP and CDPHE in their efforts to identify and control hazardous air pollutant emissions, as part of our commitment to helping organizations manage their environmental obligations. Reach out to us to discuss your application needs and to learn more about our AROMA instrument suite.
Coming soon to an environmental monitoring conference near you: Entanglement Technologies will be exhibiting and showcasing the AROMA instruments, high-performance chemical analyzers that enable the collection of accurate chemical data in the field. Come visit us at one of the following conferences this summer and fall to talk with Director of Sales and Business Development Aurelie Marcotte, and Inside Sales Specialist Pedro Benavides about how AROMA can meet your current and future environmental monitoring needs.
July 25-27, 2023 Durham, NC
Air Sensors Quality Assurance Workshop
Exhibiting at Booth #2.
July 31-August 3 2023 Minneapolis, MN
2023 Environmental Measurement Symposium (EMS)
Exhibiting at table #29.
Presenting on Monday July 31st at 1:30PM: Aurelie Marcotte, an experienced atmospheric chemist and analytical instrumentation specialist, will present “Real-Time VOC Measurements in Ambient Air Using Thermal Desorption, Broadband Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy”.
Additionally, join us on Tuesday, August 1st at 3:30PM, for the New Technology Showcase to learn more about our technology and applications.
November 14-16 2023 Durham, NC
Air Quality Measurement Methods and Technology Conference
Exhibiting at Booth #16Platform Presentations include “Review of Ethylene Oxide Monitoring and Measurements with AROMA-ETO” and “Utilization of Broadband Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy for Mobile Leak Detection in the Port of Rotterdam”
Entanglement Technologies has become a member of the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL) to further explore AROMA-technology-led solutions for process monitoring in biomanufacturing. NIIMBL is a public-private consortium composed of more than 200 members and federal stakeholder agencies across a diverse set of groups, including large and small companies, research institutions, community colleges, non-profit organizations, and government. Their mission is to “accelerate biopharmaceutical innovation, support the development of standards that enable more efficient and rapid manufacturing capabilities, and educate and train a world-leading biopharmaceutical manufacturing workforce, fundamentally advancing U.S. competitiveness in the industry.”
Entanglement Technologies will be presenting a poster at the NIIMBL 2023 National Meeting June 27 – 29th in Washington D.C. The work is in collaboration with the North Carolina Biotechnology Training and Education Center (NC BTEC) to monitor methanol and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in bioreactor headspace during a Pichia pastoris fermentation process.
If you are interested in how AROMA can meet your VOC monitoring needs, please contact Aurelie Marcotte.
Learn more about NIIMBL on its website.
Four years after chemical fires sent chemicals billowing for weeks in a Houston-area community, regulators are still reflecting on how to mitigate the effects of such accidents in the future. In a new 2-part series, the Texas Tribune documents the events leading up to the fires and in the aftermath, exposing gaps in air monitoring efforts and highlighting the significant health and environmental impacts of such events.
Shortly after the ITC fires in March 2019, Entanglement Technologies was on the ground in Deer Park, Texas, with the Environmental Defense Fund, monitoring benzene and other hazardous chemicals with our AROMA platform. Using AROMA-VOC, the Entanglement team detected elevated levels of benzene days after the fires were extinguished, as far as 12 miles downwind of the ITC facility. The second part of the new Texas Tribute series details the immediate, and potential long-term, effects of these benzene levels on local residents, underscoring the need for high-quality data collection and dissemination.
The Tribune articles highlight that the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board should be issuing their final report on the 2019 ITC Terminal Fire later this year, and some Houston-area residents are suing ITC. In the years following the fire, Harris County Pollution Control Services unveiled a new mobile monitoring unit called the rapid ambient air monitoring (RAAM) and acquired their own AROMA analyzer to rapidly respond to air quality concerns in the wake of future industrial accidents. In 2022, community groups in Houston and the City of Houston Health Department were also selected to receive funds from an EPA grant to conduct air monitoring of hazardous air pollutants such as 1,3-butadiene, acrolein, and ethylene oxide.
The events surrounding the ITC chemical fires are powerful reminders of the importance of air quality monitoring both in industrial settings and to the broader surrounding communities.
To learn more about how Entanglement Technologies’ AROMA platform can enhance rapid response air and water capabilities, please contact us.
From London, England, to Panama City Beach, FL, Entanglement Technologies will be showcasing its novel platform for measuring contaminants of emerging concern at various conferences this spring. Our Director of Sales and Business Development Dr. Aurelie Marcotte will lead efforts to attend, present, and exhibit at conferences this year, including the Institution of Environmental Sciences Measuring Air Quality Conference in London (March 28, 2023) and the 44th Annual Stationary Source Sampling and Analysis for Air Pollutants (SSSAAP) conference in Panama City Beach (April 2, 2023).
Dr. Marcotte will be highlighting our development efforts to measure contaminants of emerging concern such as ethylene oxide (EtO) and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in ambient air. Sensitive and accurate measurements of EtO and fluorotelomer alcohols (FTOHs) are challenging to make in the lab by traditional techniques such as GC-MS. Entanglement Technologies’ AROMA analyzers meet or exceed the capabilities of laboratory equipment and can be deployed in the field for long-term stationary monitoring or can turn any vehicle into a mobile lab.
We look forward to sharing our recent developments and connecting with air quality professionals in the U.S. and internationally. Feel free to contact us if you are attending either conference and are interested in speaking with Dr. Marcotte.
PSE Healthy Energy, in collaboration with Stanford University, has been using AROMA-VOC to measure volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from indoor sources of natural gas over the past year. This month, they permanently added our AROMA technology to their analytical measurement capabilities.
The average American spends around 90% of their time indoors, so better understanding the potential health effects associated with indoor emissions of hazardous chemicals, such as from gas stove tops or fireplaces, is critical. AROMA-VOC is easy to transport and set up in homes to make continuous measurements of VOCs in real-time for longer term research studies.
To learn more about PSE Healthy Energy’s Kitchen Pollutants Studies in California and Australia go to the PSE website.
Check out the write up about some of Stanford’s recent monitoring effects and see pictures featuring AROMA-VOC in the New York Times.
Entanglement Technologies’ AROMA platform features advanced sensors for many applications, including indoor air quality, ambient air quality, continuous emissions monitoring, process control, and fenceline monitoring. Universities, air monitoring professionals, and community groups around the world have chosen to add AROMA to their air monitoring capabilities. Please contact us to learn more about integrating AROMA into your air monitoring work.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investing further in Entanglement Technologies AROMA-ETO, using it to monitor ethylene oxide (EtO) across the country. EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) has been using AROMA over the past couple years, and just invested in their second AROMA analyzer.
Understanding and improving the ability to measure the EtO has been a top priority for the U.S. EPA. In 2016, EtO was determined to be far more hazardous than previously thought for lifetime chronic exposure by an Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessment conducted by the EPA. The 100-in-a-million excess cancer risk for a lifetime of continuous exposure to EtO is 0.02 µg/m3, or approximately 11 parts per trillion by volume (pptv).
AROMA-ETO has been deployed at multiple sites across the United States. Taking advantage of its ability to detect EtO at single digit pptv concentrations, EPA scientists have used the instrument to help improve current measurement methods and better understand ambient background concentrations of EtO. Due to previous analytical limitations (i.e. EPA Method TO-15), measuring ethylene oxide at relevant ambient concentrations has been challenging; however, this is an essential step to helping communities have a better understanding of their potential risk and also to reducing emissions to protect human health.
Entanglement Technologies’ ethylene oxide monitor, AROMA-ETO, is a high-performance thermal desorption, cavity ring-down spectroscopy (TD-CRDS) system that provides near-real time measurements of ethylene oxide at single digit part-per-trillion concentrations. AROMA-ETO can also provide analysis for other key volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including 1,3-butadiene, acrolein, methanol, and isopropanol in the same analytical method.
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Our AROMA technology excels at real-time, continuous measurement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for process control in critical industries. Scientists at the Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center integrate AROMA-VOC into their small-scale yeast process to monitor methanol feed and volatile metabolites in bioreactors. The direct measurement of these VOCs allows the researchers to monitor cellular activity and gather data in real-time for development of automated process control. Such direct measurement eliminates potential contamination of the cell culture due to sampling, bypasses extensive offline analytical testing, and limits the waste of raw materials.
The Golden LEAF Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) is located on North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, NC. BTEC provides educational and training opportunities to develop skilled professionals for the biomanufacturing industry. Its facilities feature industry-standard equipment and a simulated cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) pilot plant facility.
Entanglement Technologies continues to expand into new markets with their AROMA platform. Contact us to learn more about how AROMA can meet your VOC monitoring needs. We are committed to serving our customers in a variety of application areas.