Integration of Photoionization Sensor CES into Oil and Gas Industry and Medicine

The main advantages of the CES detectors are low price, small size, high sensitivity (1 ppm and better), a wide dynamic range of measured concentrations, the ability to determine a wide range of simultaneously analyzed substances including complex organic molecules. This is owing to the ionization of all the present molecules that have a corresponding ionization potential without fragmentation and their classification according to the photoelectron energy spectrum when the CES cell of the VUV is irradiated with photons.

The features of the method, which have no analogues, made it possible to create a portable analyzer that is capable to become a personal device of the people health monitoring. Owing to its advantages, this device can be effectively used both at hazardous production facilities and for medical purposes. In the oil and gas industry, the CES microplasma sensor can monitor workers' health (a silicone bracelet with a built-in sensor). It is possible to conduct an air analysis with an express method to detect exceedances of maximum permissible concentrations, control drilling and blasting operations and create a reference point for building aeroecological map. It can analyze the main biomarkers in outpatient clinics removed from equipped medical centers.