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.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) are adding our AROMA technology to their ambient air toxics monitoring capabilities. CARB, which already has one AROMA instrument, plans to use the second one to enhance its ability to monitor critical air toxics in California. CDPHE will use AROMA-VOC to support monitoring of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene(s) (BTEX) in ambient air near oil and gas activities.
AROMA-VOC is a sensitive, real-time analyzer capable of measuring several volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as BTEX, 1,3-butadiene, and acrolein at part-per-trillion (pptv) concentrations. AROMA can also be outfitted with an additional capability to measure ethylene oxide at less than 10 pptv in ambient air. Contact us to learn more.
Our AROMA technology will be supporting several newly funded air monitoring projects, which are part of the largest investment in community air monitoring in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) history. EPA announced last week that it will award $53 million to organizations in 37 states to fund more than a hundred community air monitoring projects. These projects were funded under the Enhanced Air Quality Monitoring for Communities Grant Competition, which was enabled by funds from the American Rescue Act ($20 million) and the Inflation Reduction Act ($30 million).
During the application process, Entanglement Technologies partnered with multiple organizations to monitor air toxics, also called hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Our AROMA instruments provide real-time, lab-quality, field and mobile measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), allowing our partners to fill critical capability gaps in air quality monitoring applications without requiring an expert operator. We look forward to supporting current and future community air monitoring projects with this new funding. We will highlight each funded project as it kicks off, but you can read more about all of the awarded projects here.
If you are interested in implementing AROMA technology in your community, please reach out to discuss a project!
In mid-October, the Presto Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) will use AROMA-ETO for mobile monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the Pittsburgh, PA, area. The AROMA technology will be deployed in Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies Mobile Air Quality Lab, which houses several high-time-resolution and chemically specific pieces of equipment to identify emission sources. “We use the mobile laboratory to map both pollutant concentrations and impacts from specific emissions sources,” says Dr. Albert Presto, a Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies at CMU. “AROMA-ETO will allow us to better quantify sources of air toxics and other novel pollutants in Pittsburgh.” The Presto Lab also deploys low-cost sensors for long-term air quality monitoring with high spatial coverage of neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area.
AROMA-ETO is a high-performance chemical analyzer that provides near-real time measurements of ethylene oxide and other VOCs at part-per-trillion concentrations. The analyzer enables in-field, mobile, and long-term unattended VOC monitoring at the push of a button.
Contact us to learn more about how AROMA can meet your air quality monitoring needs.