<br/>Analyzing petroleum samples, performing hydrocarbon analyses and testing substances such as gasoline, biodiesel and natural gas can be time-critical and very costly if labs suffer delays in testing due to equipment downtime. In many cases, laboratories procure instruments strictly based on their ability to generate fast, accurate results. On-site gas generation is the preferred source of carrier and FID gas supply for chromatography equipment in the petrochemical industry due to its benefits of safety, reliability and consistent composition. Further, on-site hydrogen generators are compact, streamlined systems that produce the hydrogen gas required on demand with zero inventory. Supporting petrochemical, refining and chemical processing applications, Proton OnSite’s hydrogen gas “Lab Server” is ideally suited for testing environments that require multiple gas chromatographs. Proton’s “Lab Server” platform provides the only generators large enough to handle<b> </b>all hydrogen gas requirements from a single source. This unit employs Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) cell stack technology to produce a reliable stream of ultra-high purity hydrogen (99.9999%) for analytical use. This presentation aims to illustrate the advantageous results yielded by a hydrogen gas Lab Server at a customer site supporting petrochemical analyses. In this instance, the customer sought alternatives to hydrogen delivery and explored procurement of   on-site gas generation equipment. Rather than opting for multiple gas generators, to support the hydrogen demand at their facility, this customer elected to implement a single centralized unit to conserve lab footprint, cost, and maintenance requirements.<br/>

Hydrogen gas lab servers provide many advantages to laboratory operations

254th National Meeting (2017)

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