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    Hydrocarbon gas molecules will absorb radiated energy  in certain bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.   When these bands align with a gas molecule's natural resonant frequencies the energy state of the carbon atom's electrons shift in discrete, discernable steps.

                This is The Quantum Effect.

   These resonant frequencies depend on the number, mass and strengths of each molecule's chemical bonds, C1, C2, C3 etc.

  If the structure of a gas molecule is sufficiently complex, it will  display a broad range of resonant peaks along the absorption spectum, 3.0µ-3.5µ (microns).

 Laser-trimmed tungsten emitters are pulsed with  digitally generated 4Hz Square Waves and output  filtered to interact only with molecular dipoles: Those molecules arranged non-symmetrically or with non-symmetrical vibrational modes.  Specifically, hydrocarbons. These include stretching and bending modes creating dipole or even multi-pole moments, producing absorption peaks along the radiated spectrum.

         Symmetrical molecules are unaffected. 

  Hydrocarbons are sensitive in these bands largely through Hydrogen-Carbon stretching modes. Generally, the greater the number of H-C bonds, the stronger the absorption lines, many of which merge into narrow bands in the broader 2µ (microns) to 20µ range. The shape of these clustered bands reveal  both the identity of the gas and its concentration in PPM. 

  Hydrocarbons will exhibit absorption lines at 3.0µ to 3.5µ, while C02 does so at 4.2µ, for instance.

  We utilize a null band at 4.0µ as a zero reference, comparing the gas readings four times per second to this static value to achieve near absolute long-term stability even under widely varying conditions. 

  The pellistor, in most common use today, developed almost 60 years ago was the final development of the "Hot Wire" method.

    * 'The pellistor was developed in the early 1960s for use in mining operations as the successor to the flame safety lamp and the canary."- Wikipedia

  Quantum Field Detection is the first Digital gas sensing and analysis technology available to the Hydroocarbon Extraction  Industry.

  Coupled with our Class Leading Chromatography, formation value clarity is assured.

  Quantum Field Detection® is better because:

   It is intrinsically fail-safe. 

   It cannot go to "zero" if a failure occurs. If it achieves "zero" in clear air it is working perfectly.

  A zero value requires 100% of the transmitted energy be received, measured and processed. Any reductions in this signal are compared to the reference detectors tuned to a null band and calculated as gas.

 It uses a physical sensing technique immune to adverse chemical environments.

  There is no chemical poisoning as with catalytic combustion .*   

  Oxygen is not required for operation.  Nothing is burned. The sample remains unaltered. We only looked at it.

 Hydrogen is not detected and causes no cross-sensitivity. Combustion temperature is irrelevent. Carbon dioxide is uniquely detectable and causes no reduction in sensitivity to combustible gasses. 

  Explosive levels of  hydrocarbons with CO2 present  can read as zero gas with conventional hot-wire sensors and FID's!

 No sensor ‘burn-out’ or "saturation" when exposed to high gas levels. 100% C1-C6  is easily tolerated.

 Stable long-term operation requires no re-calibration.

 Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) exceeds 10 years, much longer than conventional hot-wire sensors * which can self destruct on start-up in the presence of trace hydrocarbons; >5% Methane for example.

 No dilution, attenuation, multiplication, sensor switching, phase reversals or other error prone strategies are needed to measure or analyze varying levels or densities of hydrocarbons. Stable accuracy is assured.

  No error inducing "zero" or "set" knobs.  Our analyzer's programmable operational amplifiers are software tailored to individual sensors and need no field adjustment. Its zero point stability needs no field calibration.There is virtually no drift.

  Due to their non-destructive nature several discrete sensors can use the same sample for improved consistency and simpler, more robust construction best suited to field analysis.

   Our method employs thermal compensation rather than temperature dependency.

   It is unaffected by gas flow, rather than being critically dependent  upon it.

  Our consistency, stability, accuracy, reliability and most significantly our repeatibility is optimal.

  Field to field consistancy is a marked plus.