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Aerosol Newsletter December 2010

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Featured Event - The International Aerosol Conference 2010 Review

LATEST NEWS

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Biral AFS design is updated for use with Biral Aspect

The new design was launched at the recent IAC2010 Conference (see review below).

To read more about either the AFS for standalone use or combined with the Aspect please click Aerosol Size, Shape and Fluorescence.

Photo - Simon Tebb and Don Clark try-out the new Biral AFS with an Apsect

The Biral ASPECT measures aerosol size and shape data for Tata Steel Europe and the University of Sheffield.

Tata Steel Europe's Research and Development Centre at Moorgate in Rotherham, UK, have an ongoing project with the University of Sheffield to characterise particulate matter in the air around their UK manufacturing sites.

A poster based on the work so far, with the Biral Aspect and a Rotating Drum Sampler at the Health and Safety Laboratories, won a prize at the recent Royal Society of Chemistry Young Members' Symposium. It was presented by the Society of Chemical Industry, who are interested in the collaboration between the University of Sheffield and industry and commented on being impressed by the use of the Biral Aspect in this new application.

To read the abstract from the poster session please click "Development of a novel experimental design for the characterisation of particulate matter from the iron and steel making process".

To read about the Biral Aspect please click aerosol size and shape.

OTHER NEWS IN BRIEF

The School of Physics at the University of Bristol, UK, take delivery of a Dekati ELPI. The School of Physics is a vibrant and world leading research department, with innovative and dynamic research groups working across the whole breadth of physics. To find out more about their work please click School of Physics website and to read about the Dekati ELPI please click ELPI electrical low pressure impactor.

Quantum Air Technology choose the MetOne GT-321 Partcile Counter for Controlled Environment Cabinets. Quantum Air Technology are global leaders in providing clean air & containment equipment & services into defence, medical & biotech life sciences sectors. To find out more about this company click QAT website, to read more about the MetOne Range click handheld particle counters

Review of the International Aerosol Conference 2010 in Helsinki

With more than 1300 delegates this IAC was easily the largest to date. This is hugely encouraging in terms of the continually growing interest in aerosol science but makes the organisation of such conferences increasingly difficult. The diversity of the field is clearly illustrated by the fact that, including special sessions, there were up to eight parallel sessions at any one time. These were further enhanced by the very large number of posters that, combined with the platform sessions, gave a comprehensive picture of the range of research being carried out world-wide. However, the numbers meant that it was only possible for an individual to cover a small proportion of the subject areas in the course of the conference.

Given the scope of the conference everyone’s highlights will be different but some things did seem to stand out. Perhaps the foremost aspect was illustrated by the opening plenary on “Aerosols from Biomass Burning”. The urgent requirement for the world to reduce reliance on fossil fuels brings with it new potential problems from particulate pollutants and it was encouraging to hear that numerous research groups are devoting effort to both anticipate and address these problems. The closely related field of climate change modelling continues to grow with the increasing awareness that the dynamics of the atmospheric aerosol is a major factor in predicting the progress of climate change.

It is quite rare for aerosol science to figure prominently in the news but the past year was an exception with the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland causing havoc in European airspace. A special session on the efforts of a number groups to monitor the cloud proved to be very popular indeed.

The ash cloud is clearly an exception but otherwise the major focus of measurement and instrument development remains in the nanometre size range with interesting developments in extending the reliable measurement range of instruments to single nanometre sizes. The use of nanoparticles in the construction of micro-engineered surfaces and structures was the subject of an excellent plenary lecture by Professor Mansoo Choi, which illustrated many exciting developments in this area.

The increasing importance of bioaerosols was illustrated with two special sessions on characterisation and field measurement issues. These highlighted the growing awareness of the importance of aerosols in disease transmission and requirement for specialised tools for discrimination and measurement.

The overall picture brought back from the conference was of a field of science and technology that is of growing importance in very diverse areas. These extend from climate modelling to construction of complex micro-engineered surface and from novel forms of power generation to disease transmission. We can only speculate as to what will be new at IAC 2014 in Korea.

Don Clark
dclark@biral.com

FEATURED PRODUCT - The new Dekati ELPI+

As the official Dekati Distributor for the UK & Ireland, Biral are proud to announce the launch of the ELPI+™ (Electrical Low Pressure Impactor), a new, improved version of the widely used and well characterized ELPI™ system.

ELPI+™ enables measurement of real-time particle size distribution and concentration in the size range of 6nm - 10μm with 10Hz sampling rate.

The ELPI+™ can be used in wide range of particle measurement applications including combustion aerosol and engine exhaust studies, pharmaceutical inhaler development, air quality monitoring and general aerosol research.

To read more please click on NEW Dekati ELPI+

Meet the Biral Aerosol Team . . .

Simon Tebb, Aerosol Sales Engineer

stebb@biral.com

Simon Tebb joined the Biral sales team at the beginning of the year as Aerosol Sales Engineer for our aerosol products.

Simon joins us from TSI Instruments and has responsibility for all geographic areas for the Biral product range. Simon graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with an honours degree in Engineering; after an initial period working as a project engineer he moved in to technical sales and now has eleven years experience of selling scientific and industrial instrumentation at the national and international level.

Over the next few months Simon will be out and about demonstrating the new ELPI+, the Aspect and AFS sensors. If you would like to arrange for Simon to visit you please email him.

Simon will also be on the exhibition stand at the forthcoming DDL21 conference in Edinburgh in December. So please introduce yourself to him if you are also attending (see more information about DDL below).

Another event which Simon is attending which may also be of interest to you:

The ASFERA 2011 Conference in Paris, France on 25th and 26th January 2011. ASFERA is the French Aerosol Society. Together with our distributor Intertek (www.intertek-ics.com) we will be exhibiting the Aspect and AFS size, shape and flourescence analysers and the new ASAS+ software at the conference.

www.asfera.org/fr/conference_cfa2011.php

Don Clark, Chief Scientific Officer

(also known as Professor James Clark)

Most of Don's career was spent with Dstl and its predecessors at Porton Down. He worked on biological detection techniques for about 15 years until retirement in 2005. Since then he has worked with Biral on both biodetection and aerosol characterisation instruments.

Don will be on the exhibition stand with Simon at the forthcoming DDL21 conference in Edinburgh in December so please introduce yourself if you are attending.

Baukje Zitman, Met-One instrument sales and internal Sales Coordinator

After receiving a Master degree in Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands, Baukje Zitman, a Dutch national, has worked in the field of Sales ever since.

In the Dutch port city of Rotterdam she gained experience whilst working for the world’s leading container shipping company and, after a brief period in South Africa, came to the UK where she joined Biral.

Baukje has responsibility for the Met One product range of handheld particle counters and she is also, as the Internal Sales Coordinator, the first point of contact for all our customers. She ensures all your queries will be handled accurately and efficiently by the Biral sales team.

If you have any question or need any information please feel free to drop her a line:

Email: sales@biral.com
Tel (from UK): 01275 84 77 87 ext. 26
Tel (international): + 44 1275 84 77 87 ext. 26

FORTHCOMING EVENT - DDL21

We will be exhibiting the Biral Particle Aerosol instrumentation at the DDL21 conference.
Drug Delivery to the Lungs is Europe's premier conference and exhibition dedicated to pulmonary and nasal drug delivery.

DDL21 is on 8th - 10th December 2010 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

This year, DDL21 topics will include:

Methods of investigating in-vivo pulmonary drug deposition and their application to assessing bioequivalence

Increasing chances of success in early inhaled product development

Advances in formulation and analytical science

What on earth? Bizarre and quirky science relevant to inhalation therapy

To find out more about DDL21 please visit the conference website at: http://ddl-conference.org.uk/

Biral will be exhibiting on Stand 52

Other Events . . .

European Aerosol Conference

A date for your diary is the next European Aerosol Conference in Manchester UK on September 4 - 9, 2011

Event Website: www.eac2011.com

BIRAL will be exhibiting and we look forward to seeing you there.

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