Trace VOC Real-Time Analysis from ppqv- to ppmv-Level in High-Resolution

IONICON, the Austrian based manufacturer of PTR-MS real-time trace VOC analysers presents the new PTR-QiTOF and the PTR-TOF 1000. Two of a kind, these two products cover everything from a robust, field deployed entry-level instrument namely the PTR-TOF 1000, to the new scientific flagship model, the PTR-QiTOF, with utmost resolution, sensitivity and the lowest possible detection limit in the ppqv-region.

Featuring a Quadrupole ion guide (Qi), the new PTR-QiTOF achieves a performance, no other commercial PTR-TOFMS system has ever been able to demonstrate before.

Scientists can expect up to 25x more sensitivity, one order of magnitude lower detection limit and 20% higher mass resolution.

This boost in sensitivity is especially beneficial for cutting edge applications like eddy-covariance flux measurements, where ultra-low VOC concentrations have to be quantified with more than 10 Hz. The high time-resolution and sensitivity of IONICON PTR-TOF instruments enable flux measurements of biogenic VOCs, providing new insights to our understanding of the atmospheric VOC budget by studying active atmosphere-ecosystem exchange of a vast number of BVOCs.

The PTR-TOF 1000 is by far the most affordable, smallest and also lightweight system available on the market. It has already been successfully deployed on NASA flight measurement campaigns and will continue being used on challenging flight campaigns as well as in laboratories all around the world. It provides all the advantages of a powerful time of flight based solutions: the entire mass range in split-seconds and higher resolution for better separation and identification.

Both instruments can optionally be equipped with the award-winning fastGC module, offering a seamless combination of a fast Gas Chromatographic separation and real-time, extremely sensitive trace gas analysis by IONICON PTR-TOFMS series instruments.