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Laser Particle Counter
a) Oil Analysis b) Water Quality c) Pharmaceuticals and Medical d) Sedimentology e) Contamination Control f) Chrystal Growth etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Laser Particle Counter

Oil Analysis

1.	A MAJOR US OIL LAB CRITIQUES THE SPECTREX PARTICLE COUNTER Kurt Parker, Chief Chemist and Particle Count Manager, Oil Analysis Lab - March 24, 2006
2.	INFLUENCE OF PARTICLES ON PARTIAL DISCHARGES AND BREAKDOWN IN OIL K.N. Mathes and J.M. Atkins, General Electric Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY. From Conference Record of 1978 I.E.E.E. International Symposium on Electrical Insulation.
3.	EVALUATION OF OIL SAMPLES FROM CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATORS. Amitabh Jam, S. Biswas, Sadhna Shrivastava and L.R. Jagga. Reprinted from Tribology International May 1993.
4.	PARTICLE-SIZE ANALYSIS OF ENGINE OILS (pdf) A supplement to spectrometric analysis.

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Water Quality

1.	HOW TO GET PARTICLE FREE WATER FOR DILUTING SAMPLES RUN ON THE SPECTREX PARTICLE COUNTER Spectrex Application Note 11-04.
2.	THE USE OF THE SPECTREX PARTICLE COUNTER IN WATER FILTRATION TESTING William Huml, R&D laboratory at Fibredyne Inc., November 18, 2002.
3.	THE USE OF PARTICLE COUNTING FOR THE EVALUATION OF FILTER PERFORMANCE. Nancy E. McTigue and David A. Cornwell, Environmental Engineering & Technology, Inc., Newport News, VA.
4.	COMPARISON OF TECHNIQUES IN DETERMINING WATER QUALITY FOR OIL WELLS T. Bates
5.	USING A BATCH, SPECTREX, PARTICLE COUNTER AND PARTICLE STANDARDS TO MONITOR AND CONTROL IN-LINE, MET ONE, PARTICLE COUNTERS FOR CALIBRATION PURPOSES (Abstract) David Eugene Kimbrough, Water Quality & Laboratory Supervisor Lo Labisi, Water Quality Scientist II
6.	EVALUATION OF THE SPECTREX LASER PARTICLE COUNTER MODEL PC-2000 (Absctract) By Water Quality Monitoring Dept. Glenmore, Waterworks Calgary, Alberta Canada
7.	SCREEN FILTRATION TECHNOLOGY AS APPLIED TO PRETREATMENT OF REVERSE OSMOSIS AND ULTRA-FILTRATION SYSTEMS By Thomas E. Hamilton, Power Products & Services Co., Battle Ground, WA

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Pharmaceuticals and Medical

1.	STATEMENT BY USP THAT THE SPECTREX, LIGHT DIFFRACTION METHOD OF COUNTING PARTICLES IN PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS IS ACCEPTABLE BY USP James W. Kelly, Ph.D,Scientist and Liaison, Parenteral Products-Industrial Expert Committee, U.S. Pharmacopeia. September 2005.
2.	DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING RATE OF SOLUTION OF SOLID PRODUCTS. M.W. Henley and J. B. Porinoff, Merck, Sharp & Dohme, West Point, PA. Reprinted from Pharmaceutical Technology. September 1980.
3.	SONICATED ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC CONTRAST AGENTS: REPRODUCIBILITY STUDIES (Extract) Steven B. Feinstein, MD, ¹ Mark W. Keller, MD,² Richard E. Kerber, MD,³ Byron Vandenberg, MD,³ John Hoyte, MA (Cambridge),4  Chris Kutruff, RN, 5 James Bingel, MD, 6 Theodore D. Fraker, Jr., MD, 6 Richard Chappell, BS, ¹ and Alan H. Welsh, PhD, 7 Chicago, Ill., Charlottesville, Va., Iowa City, Iowa, Indianapolis, Ind., Toledo, Ohio, and Redwood City, Calif.

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Sedimentology

1.	THE SPECTREX PARTICLE COUNTER USED FOR SEDIMENT ANALYSIS Joan F. Steurer and Michael B. Underwood, Ocean Drilling Program (Click here to view in PDF format)
2.	USING A LASER PARTICLE COUNTER TO ENHANCE SEDIMENTOLOGY LABORATORY EXERCISES. Mary Jo Hall, Rider College, Lawrenceville, NJ. Reprinted from NAGT Journal of Geological Education. Volume 40 Number 2. March 1992.
3.	THE EFFECT OF COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL TRAFFIC ON THE RESUSPENSION OF SEDIMENT IN NAVAGATION POOL 9 OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Miles M. Smart, Ronald G. Rada and Thomas 0. Claflin, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, WI, Dept. of Biology. Dennis N. Nielsen, Winona State University, Winona, MN, Dept.of Geology.
4.	COMPARISON OF SPECTREX LASER PARTICLE COUNTER WITH COULTER COUNTER AND PIPETTE SIZING METHODS Extract from: Poster presentation by Dr. Mary Jo Hall of Rider University at the N.E. GSA Meeting in Portland, Maine, March 1988
5.	PARTICLE-SIZE ANALYSIS OF SILTS An Optical Method of Size Analysis for Silt Sized Particles by Zack Alan Clayton, Department of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Florida

Contamination Control

1.	CONTAMINATION CONTROL PROCEDURE FOR HARD DISK DRIVE PARTS Worksheet of one of several uses for ultra clean components.
2.	CONTAMINATION CONTROL THROUGH IN-SITU PARTICLE COUNTING John Hoyte, Spectrex Corporation, Redwood City, CA. Proceedings-Institute of Environmental Sciences. 1997

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Chrystal Growth etc.

1.	BREAKING NEWS REPORT DEPENDENCE OF NUCLEATION KINETICS AND CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGY OF A MODEL PROTEIN SYSTEM ON IONIC STRENGTH V.Bhamidi and C.A.Schall, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, The University of Toledo, E.Skrzypczak-Jankun Instrumentation Center, The University of Toledo.
2.	CRYSTAL SEED GROWTHS AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF A CONTROLLED CRYSTALLIZATION FROM SOLUTION Roland Boese and Markus Nusse, Universitat-GH Essen

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Vreeland Spectroscope

1.	A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE VREELAND SPECTROSCOPE Geology Department University of Iowa
2.	SPECTROSCOPE EVALUATION BY BARON MINING CORPORATION Reith D. Brecheisen, President, Baron Mining Corporation.
3.	SPECTROSCOPE EVALUATION BY SYNTHETIC PRODUCTS COMPANY Robert W. Cook, Analytical Laboratory Manager, Synthetic Products Company.
4.	USING THE VREELAND SPECTROSCOPE IN A GEOSCIENCE MINERALOGY COURSE D. Brooks McKinney, Professor of Geoscience, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. January 21, 2001.
5.	USING THE VREELAND SPECTROSCOPE FOR TEACHING MINERALOGY. Dr. William R. Brice, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. August 1998
6.	THE USE OF THE VREELAND SPECTROSCOPE FOR PLATINUM METALS J & J Materials, Inc., Neptune City, NJ. August 1980.
7.	APPLICATION OF THE VREELAND SPECTROSCOPE FOR RAPID ANALYSIS OF STONY METEORITES. Jerry K. Bitner and Bruce D. Dod, Wayland College, Plainview, TX. Reprinted from Meteoritics The Journal of the Meteoritical Society Volume 14, Number 4,1979.
8.	QUALITATIVE EMISSION SPECTROSCOPYIN FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY. Leonard F. Druding and Roger A. Lalancette, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ. Reprinted from the Journal of Chemical Education
9.	USING PROFESSIONAL EQUIPMENT IN THE BEGINNING GEOLOGY COURSE. John L. Roberts, Bradford Junior College. Reprinted from the Journal of Geological Education, Volume 18, Number 4, September 1970.

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