Industries with the need
for environmental compliance products for stationary source, mobile source
and ambient monitoring rely on Prest-O-Sales & Service to provide efficient,
reliable solutions. We also supply laboratories with pure gases and customized
mixtures for everything from culturing micro-organisms to the calibration
and operation of analytical instruments. Prest-O-Sales & Service has decades
of knowledge and experience in supplying institutions and companies with high
quality gas mixtures and instrument calibration and process control.
Component Raw Material
All blending source gases
and liquids are qualified to ensure that they are appropriate for each specific
application. Because certain impurities affect the performance or stability
of the final mixture, our suppliers use special proprietary purification techniques
for the removal of critical impurities.
Cylinder Preparation
Our suppliers utilize a series
of computer controlled automated heating, vacuum and purge cycles to prepare
both aluminum and steel cylinders. For low concentration or highly reactive
components they use additional, proprietary cylinder treatment processes.
By use of these unique cylinder preparation processes, we are able to supply
accurate part per billion and low part per million concentration reactive
gas mixtures with guaranteed stability.
Blending Systems
We and our suppliers prepare
mixtures utilizing high load, high sensitivity Gravimetric Balances, Micro
Balance Capillary Injection, Computerized Dynamic Blending Systems and Volumetric
Manifolds. This ensures that your product mixture is produced to your exact
specifications promptly, accurately and repeatedly.
Analytical Instrumentation
Mixture composition is certified
analytically using a variety of highly accurate, state-of-the-art analytical
instrumentation including Gas Chromatography with a variety of detectors,
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), Atomic Absorption (GFAA), Process Instrumentation
(NDIR), chemiluminescence and gas specific process analyzers. This instrumentation
is calibrated with a broad set of gas reference standards including NIST Standard
Reference Materials, NTRM's and Praxair Primary Laboratory Standards. All
this ensures the accuracy and traceability of the final analytical results.
Quality Assurance
Production technology combines
procedures such as BAR and EPA methods, ISO certification and interlab audit
programs with worldwide standards from NIST. The right procedures and the
right standards help ensure the highest quality gases.