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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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Appendix C
Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation

OVERVIEW

While commercially available ambient ionization mass spectrometry instrumentation in the specific configurations recommended by the committee in Chapter 4 may not be currently available off the shelf, the major components have been commercialized and a number of analytical instrument vendors are capable of designing, assembling, and demonstrating instruments meeting potential ACWA specifications. A concise summary of commercial analytical instrument companies producing ambient ionization mass spectrometry instrumentation is presented below. This list should be considered indicative rather than exhaustive and should not be considered an endorsement by either the committee or the National Research Council.

AMBIENT IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNOLOGIES

Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART)

JEOL USA, Inc.
11 Dearborn Road, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960; 978-535-5900

salesinfo@jeol.com
www.jeolusa.com/HOME/tabid/174/Default.aspx

U.S. subsidiary of JOEL Ltd. Japan; core owner of DART patents. Its key product is AccuTOF DART, which couples the DART ion source with the high-resolution, accurate mass capability of the AccuTOF time-of-flight mass spectrometer.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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IonSense, Inc.
999 Broadway, Saugas, Massachusetts 01906; 781-484-1043

Info@IonSense.com
www.ionsense.com

U.S. licensee of JOEL DART patents. Key products are DART ionization sources, DART SVP controllers, DART-related experimental modules. Also offers atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP).

Waters Corporation
34 Maple Street, Milford, Massachusetts 01757; 800-252-4752

customerservice@waters.com
www.waters.com

The company’s key products are mass spectrometers and integrated atmospheric solids analysis probes (ASAP).

Desorption Electro Spray Ionization (DESI)

Prosolia, Inc.
351 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202; 31 7-278-6171

info@prosolia.com
www.prosolia.com

The key products are Omni Spray (DESI) ion sources compatible with a range of commercial mass spectrometers.

Laser Ablation Electrospray Ionization (LAESI)

Protea Biosciences, Inc.
955 Hartman Run Road, Morgantown, West Virginia 26507; 877-776-8321

stephen.turner@proteabio.com
www.proteabio.com

The key products are LAESI DP-1000 ionization probes.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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Liquid Extraction Surface Analysis (LESA)

Advion
10 Brown Road, Ithaca, NewYork 14850; 607-266-9162

info@advion.com
www.advion.com/biosystems/triversa-nanomate/LESA/

Advion’s key product is LESA nano-electrospray ionization source compatible with a range of commercial mass spectrometers.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Commercial Sources of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry Instrumentation." National Research Council. 2012. Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13431.
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January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chemical weapons. CMA completed destruction of the chemical agents and associated weapons deployed overseas, which were transported to Johnston Atoll, southwest of Hawaii, and demilitarized there. The remaining 10 percent of the nation's chemical weapons stockpile is stored at two continental U.S. depots, in Lexington, Kentucky, and Pueblo, Colorado. Their destruction has been assigned to a separate U.S. Army organization, the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (ACWA) Element.

ACWA is currently constructing the last two chemical weapons disposal facilities, the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants (denoted PCAPP and BGCAPP), with weapons destruction activities scheduled to start in 2015 and 2020, respectively. ACWA is charged with destroying the mustard agent stockpile at Pueblo and the nerve and mustard agent stockpile at Blue Grass without using the multiple incinerators and furnaces used at the five CMA demilitarization plants that dealt with assembled chemical weapons - munitions containing both chemical agents and explosive/propulsive components. The two ACWA demilitarization facilities are congressionally mandated to employ noncombustion-based chemical neutralization processes to destroy chemical agents.

In order to safely operate its disposal plants, CMA developed methods and procedures to monitor chemical agent contamination of both secondary waste materials and plant structural components. ACWA currently plans to adopt these methods and procedures for use at these facilities. The Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants report also develops and describes a half-dozen scenarios involving prospective ACWA secondary waste characterization, process equipment maintenance and changeover activities, and closure agent decontamination challenges, where direct, real-time agent contamination measurements on surfaces or in porous bulk materials might allow more efficient and possibly safer operations if suitable analytical technology is available and affordable.

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