SBIR/STTR Research Award
A NOVEL MASS SPECTROMETER FOR THE DETECTION OF VAPORS FROM EXPLOSIVE, INCENDIARIES AND NOXIOUS GASES
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Transportation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- SOUTHWEST SCIENCES INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Y7BFRF1G8539
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
SOUTHWEST SCIENCIES, INC. PROPOSES A NOVEL MASS SPECTROMETRIC METHOD, * IONIZATION ENERGY MODULATED MASS SPECTROMETRY (IEMMS), FOR THE RAPID DETECTION OF VAPORS FROM EXPLOSIVES, INCENDIARIES AND NOXIOUS GASES. IEMMS COMBINES ELECTRON IMPACT IONIZATION USING A MONOCHROMATIC ELECTRON BEAM WITH ION DETECTION USING TWIN TIME-OF-FLIGHT (TOF) MASS ANALYZERS. ONE ANALYZER QUANTIFIES POSITIVE IONS WHILE THE OTHER OBSERVES NEGATIVE IONS. BY MODULATING THE ELECTROL ENERGY IS IT POSSIBLE TO GENERATE REPRODUCIBLE, NONLINEAR CHANGES IN THE MASS SPECTRA WHICH CAN BE USED TO FINGERPRINT KEY SPECIES WITHIN A GAS MIXTURE. WE ANTICIPATE THAT IEMMS WILL BE COMPETITIVE WITH SEQUENTIAL MASS SPECTRAL METHODS (MS/MS TECHNIQUES) NOW BEING STUDIED FOR EXPLOSIVES DETECTION.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Compact Low Power Sensor for Measurement of Multiple Trace Gases
- High speed measurements of velocity, temperature and water content in hypersonic flows
- Low Power Instrumentation for Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces
- Low Power Instrumentation for Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces
- Diode Laser Hygrometer and Thermometer for Aerial Vehicles
Research funding history
258 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1987–2025). Reported award amounts total $60,611,964. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services