Licensing Opportunity: Tandem Pyrolysis – Evolved Gas – Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry
Closed Special Notice Posted
- Solicitation number
- 2024-09-11-N
- Agency
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Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- Place of performance
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
- Points of contact
Notice details come from SAM.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
This Special Notice from the Department of Energy describes a licensing opportunity for a novel tandem pyrolysis-evolved gas-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Tandem Pyrolysis-EGA-GC-MS) technology. This analytical technique provides a more efficient and comprehensive characterization of materials compared to traditional EGA-MS and GC-MS methods.
The purpose of this Special Notice is to offer a licensing opportunity for the Tandem Pyrolysis-EGA-GC-MS technology. The technology allows for both EGA-MS and GC-MS analyses to be conducted on a single sample, reducing experiment time, sample requirements, and the need to exchange columns between tests. This provides a more streamlined and interconnected analysis of thermal profiles and product identification. The Special Notice outlines the key benefits of the technology, including time and cost savings, as well as the wide range of potential applications across industries such as polymers, forensics, and contamination analysis. No set-aside or eligibility criteria are specified, and interested parties are instructed to contact the Department of Energy by the due date of October 26, 2024 to learn more about licensing this technology.
Notice text
Invention Reference Number: 202405631
Pyrolysis evolved gas analysis – mass spectrometry (EGA-MS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography – MS (GC-MS) – are powerful analytical tools for polymer characterization. However, to obtain both EGA-MS and GC-MS data two separate experiments must be performed requiring twice the amount of sample, and an exchange of columns between experiments. This leads to significant down time between experiments and a disconnect between the thermal profile from EGA-MS and detected products from GC-MS. This technology solves these problems by running EGA-MS and GC-MS in tandem from the gas stream of a single pyrolysis experiment providing both data sets for one sample.
Description
Pyrolysis evolved gas analysis – mass spectrometry (EGA-MS) provides the thermal profile of a material distinguishing thermal events such as thermal deposition and pyrolysis. Once identified, further characterization of these events is performed via pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) which offers identification of the specific products released during these thermal events. When combined, both techniques deliver an exhaustive characterization of a material of interest. However, to get information from both EGA-MS and GC-MS two separate experiments must be performed requiring twice the amount of sample in addition to exchanging the internal column between experimental modes shortening lifespan of the columns. This also leads to a disconnect between the thermal profile and observed products due to sample-sample variability and/or sample inhomogeneity. This invention resolves these disadvantage by allowing for tandem EGA-MS and GC-MS of a single sample increasing the analytical value of a single experiment.
Benefits
- Saves time and costs
- Reduces experiment time by half
- Uses one sample so multiple samples not required
- No column exchange required
- Only one instrument needed, not two
Applications and Industries
- Polymer industries and manufacturers
- Forensics
- Microplastic pollutants
- Contamination
- Any industry using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
Contact
To learn more about this technology, email partnerships@ornl.gov or call 865-574-1051.
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