Program

This page provides the outline of the programme and an overview of the lectures in each of the parallel sessions including the abstracts available. Detailed information on the symposium programme can be obtained by downloading the programme below.

Outline of program

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Registration and sandwiches 

Welcome and opening (by P. van Essen, Port of Rotterdam & L. Reijnders, professor of environmental sciences - University of Amsterdam & Open University (NL))

Start of parallel sessions on "Natural gas and LNG", "Metrology, accreditation and chemometrics" and "Trace contaminants: towards ppt detection"

Opening drinks

Thursday 12 February 2009

Continuing of the parallel sessions on "Natural gas and LNG", "Metrology, accreditation and chemometrics" and "Trace contaminants: towards ppt detection"

Start of parallel session on "Hydrogen & fuel cells" 

Lunch

Continuing of the parallel sessions on "Metrology, accreditation and chemometrics" and "Hydrogen & fuel cells" 

Start of parallel sessions on "Process analysis" and "Health and environmental measurements"

Scientific poster session

Symposium dinner

Friday 13 February 2009

Business relations day

Continuing of parallel sessions on "Process analysis" and "Health and environmental measurements"

Start of parallel session on "Sampling; equipment and techniques"

Lunch

Concluding session with awards for best lecture and best scientific poster 

Company workshops

Sessions

Natural gas and LNG

This session was chaired by L. Scheers of Shell Global Solutions (NL) and dealt with issues like gas-to-liquid, mercury detection, and hydrogen production. The session included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Field experiences with hydrocarbon dew point and water dew point analysers in the high pressure transport grid of natural gas in the Netherlands - H.J. Panneman, Gasunie (NL)
• Mobile analytical solutions for hazardous area's: composition and trace analysis like H2S, H2O, MeOH, etc. - H.-P. Visser, Analytical Solutions and Products(NL)
• What do we mean by C6+? - C. Cowper, Effectech (GB)
• Preparation and certification of hydrocarbon standards for the refinery industry - A. van der Veen, NMi (NL)
• Assurance of traceability of natural gas calorific value measurements - M. Rozhnov & O. Levbarg, Ukrmetrteststandart (UA)
• Water concentration analyzer for natural gas utilizing tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy - F. Gerritse, GE Sensing (NL)
• EnergyMEDOR: on-line measurement of sulphurs in natural gas - J.-M. Comets, Chromatotec (FR)
• LNG sampling with use of validated system - A. Ménard, Cegelec (FR)
• Direct in situ measurement of BTU/Indices for LNG/NG with Raman analyzers - J. Slater, Kaiser Optical Systems / Scientific Instruments (US)
• Natural gas analysis using visible light Raman spectroscopy - J. van der Grinten, NMi Certin (NL)

Metrology, accreditation and chemometrics 

This session was chaired by M. Milton of NPL (GB) and dealt with issues like multivariate analysis, precision matters, uncertainty calculations, accreditation, data handling and purity analysis. The session included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Demonstration the comparability of national measurement institutes worldwide through key comparisons and published measurements capabilities - M. Milton, NPL (GB)
• FTIR and GC as complementary tools for analysis of impurities in corrosive gases - J. Tshilongo, National Metrology Institution of South Africa (ZA)
• Internal PT-scheme within Linde's major production sites for traceable gas reference material - L. van Leeuwen, Linde Gas (NL)
• Methods of metrological control of certified reference materials; calibration gas mixtures commercially produced in Russia - V. Belobodorov, D.I. Mendeleyev Institute for Metrology (RU)
• Certified NOx under an ISO17025 calibration lab accreditation - W. Weterings, Scott Specialty Gases (NL)
• The production of ISO guide 34 accredited gas calibration standards and evaluation of their stability - K. Cleaver, BOC/ Linde Group (GB)
• Quantifying the equivalence of gas measurements between NMIs: the bivariate case - W. Bremser, BAM (DE)
• Dynamic generation of NO2 standards by permeation tubes: performance evaluation using FTIR and UV techniques - E. Flores, BIPM (FR)
• Measurement of mass-loss rate using magnetic suspension balance in diffusion-tube humidity - A. Hisashi, National Metrology Institute of Japan (JP)
• Uncertainty in measurement of breath alcohol contents - J.-C. Woo, KRISS (KR)
• Only one piston pump for the production of calibration gas mixtures? - P. Schierjott, Forschungszentrum Karlruhe (DE)
• Establishing full traceability of piston pumps by modelling of dynamic flow processes - W. Bremser, BAM (DE)
• Certification of calibration gas mixtures for use in legal metrology in Germany - P. Schley, E.ON Ruhrgas (DE)

Trace contaminants; towards ppt detection
This session was chaired by P. Krüsemann of Philips Research MiPlaza (NL) and addressed different techniques, gases and detection apparatus). The session included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Determination of (im)purities in organic chemicals used in the preparation of binary and multi-component primary gas mixtures - A. Baldan, NMi (NL)
• Laser applications for sensitive chemical sensing - F. Harren, Radbout University (NL)
• Dynamic generation of trace levels of formaldehyde standard gas mixtures and measurement by cavity ring down spectroscopy - S. Persijn, NMi (NL)
• Compact water analyzer at ppb-level utilizing dynamic absorption technology for semiconductor industry - F. Gerritse, GE Sensing (NL)
• The challenges of trace generation and detection of VOCs - R. Hamans, Owlstone (GB)
• Simultaneous detection of low parts per billion CO, CH4 and CO2 in nitrogen - M. Janse van Rensburg, National Metrology Laboratory of South Africa (ZA)
• Ozone precursor VOCs: international comparison and extended stability study - R. Grenfell, NPL (GB)

Hydrogen and fuel cells

This session was chaired by T. Jacksier of Air Liquide (US) and included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Overview of the effects of H2 impurities on fuel cell performances and durability - O. Lemaire, CEA (FR)
• Hydrogen as an energy carrier: lessons learnt - J. Reijerkerk, Linde Gas (DE)
• Hydrogen as an energy carrier in transport applications - E. Bruneau, Air Products (BE)
• On-line H2 ppb impurity analysis using FTIR - A. Ultsch, MKS Instruments (US)
• The Prismatic: Cavity ring-down spectroscopy with multi-species measurement capability - H. Chen, Tiger Optics (US)
• Multi-species trace gas analysis in fuel cell grade hydrogen using WS-CRDS - C. Rella, Picarro (US)

Process analysis
This session was chaired by H. Mahler of Siemens (DE) and included issues like on-, at- and off-line analysis, process automation, and assessment of gas analyzers. The session included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Innovations in process analytics: trends and future demands - H. Mahler, Siemens (DE)
• Natural gas; certification of "Secondary Reference Gas Mixtures (SRGMs)" using process gas chromatography - H.-J. Heine, BAM (DE) 
• GERG 1.52: comparing and defining a relation between experimental and calculating techniques for hydrocarbon dew-point - A. Yackow, Gaz de France (FR)
• Photoacoustic instrumentation for process control applications - Z. Bozóki, University of Szeged (HU) 
• New miniaturised gas chromatograph for on-line analysis using new standardized sampling platform - J. Elders, C2V (NL)
• An investigation into on-line hydrogen sulphide analysis - P. Stockwell, IMA (GB)
• Development of a tracer method for in-situ checking of flow meters for natural gas - A. van der Veen, NMi (NL)
• Field mount process gas chromatographs reduce response time make analyzer systems more compact and cost effective - S. Malcharek, Siemens (DE)
• Gas phase process composition measurement using off-the-shelf Raman analyzers - J. Slater, Kaiser Optical Systems / Scientific Instruments (US)
• Measurement of methanol contamination in an industrial F22 cooling circulation system - M. Rijpkema, Synspec (NL)

Health and environmental measurements
This session was chaired by T. Hafkenscheid of RIVM (NL) and dealt with issues like greenhouse gases, air quality, landfill or waste water gas, and external safety. The session included the following lectures (an abstract is available by clicking on the name):

• Stability of gas mixtures in small packages - L. van Leeuwen, Linde Gas (NL)
• High accuracy standards and analysis for adsorptive compounds at low concentrations - G. Vargha, NPL (GB)
• Measurement of greenhouse gases with a GC - T. Meuwese, Synspec (NL)
• Cross sensivity in the analyses of stack gas components - G. Nieuwenkamp, NMi (NL)
• Development and traceability of a gaseous Hg calibration standard - S. Mandel, Spectragases (US)
• Low level HF standard mixtures for reliable emission monitoring - M. Carré, Air Liquide (FR)
• A technology comparison of ammonia concentration analyzers - M. Haaima, RIVM (NL)
• The use of FTIR for certification of EPA protocol gas standards and similar applications environmental measurements - B. Marshik, MKS Instruments (US)

• Natural gas sampling and the revision of ISO 10715 - J. Knight, EnDet (GB)
• Hydrogen as a carrier gas as replacement for helium - W. Bayerl, Linde Gas (DE) 
• Gas analysis in NiMH batteries using mass spectrometry - P. Krüsemann, Philips MiPlaza (NL)
• Influence of gas handling equipment on the analytical results - L. van Leeuwen, Linde Gas (NL)
• Is GC carrier gas an important consideration for petrochemical analysis? - J. Duan, Air Liquide (US)

Invitation ACQUAL

Participants in GAS2009 are still invited to submit manuscripts related to their presentations (either lectures or posters) for a topical issue of Accreditation and Quality Assurance (ACQUAL). Please read more in the invitation.