Mr. Balkanski delivered the opening keynote at the 2024 EtO Conference, emphasizing the importance of collaboration within the sterilization industry to address regulatory challenges and technological advancements. He began by acknowledging the contributions of industry professionals and emphasized the need for a collective approach to navigate the complexities posed by evolving environmental regulations.

Topic: Facts Alone Will NOT Save Us Dusty Abney opened the session with an engaging presentation on facility design and emissions control in the context of evolving regulatory standards. He discussed practical strategies for integrating emissions abatement systems into existing facilities, addressing challenges such as legacy system upgrades and optimizing layouts to reduce worker exposure.

Topic: Panel 1: Quirks of the New NESHAP Subpart O Regulation Ms. Moore from Trinity Consultants presented an in-depth discussion on regulatory compliance for EtO emissions. With over a decade of experience in environmental consulting, she focused on the historical evolution of regulatory standards and offered practical guidance on current compliance options.

Topic: Control of Fugitive EtO Emissions in the Post-Aeration Supply Chain Melissa Petruska from Sonata Scientific introduced Sonata Scientific's control technology focused on eliminating fugitive EtO emissions. With support from the FDA, Sonata developed a portable air purification solution, targeting abatement for mobile and localized sources.

Topic: Automating SWEL and Workplace Compliance from Chamber to Stack: Smart, Sustainable, Integrated Solutions for the new EtO NESHAP and FIFRA Mr. Martinez from Telstar explored the transformation of sterilization facilities through digitalization, emphasizing the shift from manually operated to fully automated plants. He outlined Telstar’s role in providing turnkey projects for EtO sterilization, highlighting solutions such as integrated sterilization chambers, preconditioning, and aeration cells. Jordi emphasized that automation not only streamlines processes but also significantly

Topic: Advanced Air-purification Solutions for Ethylene Oxide Jens Hermann, representing LESNI, discussed LESNI's approach to catalytic abatement technology, detailing innovations in emission control for facilities handling ethylene oxide (EtO). His talk highlighted LESNI’s wide expertise in air purification across multiple industries, with a special focus on the medical device sector.

Topic: Optimizing Medical Device Sterilization - A Facility Enhancement Roadmap Panel 2 brought together experts from Pond & Company and Picarro to discuss strategies for optimizing medical device sterilization facilities, focusing on emissions monitoring, facility design enhancements, and compliance with emerging regulations.

Topic: Innovative Monitoring Technologies and Their Applications Mr. Cronin discussed Picarro’s innovative approaches to emissions monitoring, particularly for EtO, and highlighted the importance of customizable systems that can adapt to the evolving regulatory environment. His presentation covered a variety of monitoring types—continuous, fenceline, and workplace exposure monitoring—each essential for full regulatory compliance.

Topic: Determination of Optimal Parameters for Ethylene Oxide Destruction Using CARULITE® 500 catalyst Joseph Sigmund, representing Carus LLC, presented on the application of the Carol 500 catalyst in catalytic oxidizers for efficient EtO destruction. With over a century of experience in environmental treatment solutions, Carus has leveraged their Carol series catalysts to achieve high destruction efficiencies for EtO emissions.

Topic: From Innovation to Impact: Picarro's Journey in EtO Sterilization

Mr. Miller highlighted Picarro’s advancements in emissions monitoring technology for industrial applications, particularly in managing ethylene oxide (EtO) emissions. He emphasized the limitations of traditional concentration-based detection and presented Picarro’s emissions-based approach as a game-changer for facilities needing precise, actionable data to meet regulatory demands.

Topic: Best Practices in Data Management and Reporting Sean Cronin’s workshop delivered an in-depth exploration of best practices for managing and reporting emissions data. He began by outlining the complexities of federal, state, and local reporting requirements, emphasizing the need for systems capable of generating accurate and compliant reports.

Topic: Strategies for Destruction and Removal Efficiency (DRE) and Compliance Jonathan Bent provided a comprehensive overview of achieving destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) in compliance with NESHAP and FIFRA regulations.

Picarro ETO Conference Day 2 Presentations

Picarro ETO Conference Day 3 Presentations

Picarro ETO Conference Workshop A: Best Practices in Data Management and Reporting

Humorously unpack terms like "LISA," "FoV," and "Super Emitter" with the Picarro Gas Team'

MI Best: Consumers Energy

Retired President & COO of PG&E, Nick Stavropoulos, shares his goals for partnering with Picarro in order to boost efficiency. 

At the 2023 GRIDTech Conference, Picarro received a notable endorsement from none other than Pier Lorenzo Dell'Orco, CEO of Italgas Reti.

"We have reduced dramatically the number of odor calls, which in my view... is the most reliable KPI because it's completely guided by people and not by the company itself. We have reduced our [odor] calls by about 40% compared to the baseline of 2018. So it has been a really successful story." - Pier Lorenzo Dell'Orco, CEO of Italgas Reti

Catch the highlights from GRIDTech Conference 2023, where Dr. Renato Winkler, Sr. Director at Picarro, delivered his GRIDTech Talk on cutting-edge solutions for reducing methane emissions in gas infrastructure. Explore the journey from measurement to mitigation as Dr. Winkler shares insights on addressing methane emissions in this impactful session. 

Picarro's Field Application Engineer, Tanner Orland, and Product Manager, Andrew Kidd, share how Picarro's hardware picks up methane from the atmosphere.

Attendees of this webcast delved into the captivating realm of cloud migration and its profound impact on various data sources, including edge devices, databases, and systems. Attendees of this webcast learned about the value of migration to the cloud on various data sources including edge devices, devices, databases, and systems and how to derive business value from data.

Dave Moon, Director of Asset Investment at Cadent Gas shares his experience with Picarro.

Picarro recently spoke with Anders Feilberg, a Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark about ammonia emission abatement technology protocols for livestock production. Learn why the Picarro CRDS technology’s speed and precision are so effective for this and other Climate-Smart Agriculture applications. 

In this 3-part interview, he explains:

Picarro recently spoke with Anders Feilberg, a Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark about ammonia emission abatement technology protocols for livestock production. Learn why the Picarro CRDS technology’s speed and precision are so effective for this and other Climate-Smart Agriculture applications. 

In this 3-part interview, he explains:

Picarro recently spoke with Anders Feilberg, a Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark about ammonia emission abatement technology protocols for livestock production. Learn why the Picarro CRDS technology’s speed and precision are so effective for this and other Climate-Smart Agriculture applications. 

In this 3-part interview, he explains:

Paolo Gallo, Italgas CEO discusses Picarro at our recent Pica

5% of leaks account for 50% of your emissions. Find them using advanced leak detection and analytics.  Learn how you can identify and eliminate super emitters at unprecedented speed and scale with Picarro.

WEI, Picarro, and PG&E Webinar 2021

Picarro's Director of Sales & Client Engagement in LATAM, Malvin Delgado, giving an overview of Picarro's vehicle hardware.

Picarro's Senior Director of Business Development in EMEA, Renato Winkler, gives an overview of Picarro's vehicle hardware.

Picarro's Field Application Engineer, Tanner Orland, and Product Manager, Andrew Kidd, share how Picarro's hardware picks up methane from the atmosphere.

Surtigas buscando siempre soluciones tecnológicas e innovadoras, implementó un piloto para la detección móvil de fugas en las redes de gas natural, el novedoso sistema, único en Latinoamérica, se compone de un equipo de última generación, que detecta desde un vehículo en movimiento.

Advanced Leak Detection with ALS Asset Integrity & Reliability and Picarro

Italgas: Picarro Surveyor, Advanced Laser Technology to Monitor Gas Networks

Picarro is a leading provider of asset management solutions for the natural gas industry.

Picarro is the global leader in emissions measurement and reduction, pipe replacement, and advanced leak survey solutions. Watch this quick video to understand how we enable Natural Gas Operators to reduce methane emissions and improve the safety of their infrastructure.

This webinar was co-presented by Picarro Inc., CenterPoint Energy, and the Southern Gas Assocation.

Conventional Distribution Integrity Risk (DIM) models typically rely on historical and static parameters to predict risk. In this webinar, you'll learn how mobile Advanced Leak Detection (ALD) enables you to augment your DIM program with real-time methane data. With this improved model you can produce a more predictive and granular view of risk and optimize important capital investment decisions such as pipe replacement initiatives.

Although agriculture contributes substantially to air pollution and climate change, there is rather little discussion on how to mitigate the three major greenhouse gases and ammonia simultaneously from agricultural soils. In this webinar, Dr. Eri Saikawa, Emory University, will present findings from a project that aims to tackle this question in a corn field, while keeping the yield intact. Dr.

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Shutting Down the Picarro Analyzer with a Desiccant Column

Picarro uses the same type of KNF pump in some of our systems but they might be in different housing:
* Inside a CPVU of a G1000 series analyzer
* G2000 pump (p/n S2000 or A2000)
* Vaporizer pump (p/n S1100)

This video shows one for the S2000 pump housing but the diaphragm replacement part is applicable for all pumps above.

This is a brief Picarro tutorial on how to replace your A2000 pump diaphragms.

This is a brief tutorial on how to replace the CPU fan on your Picarro analyzer (for MI970 Motherboards).

Link to download "Measuring Emission of Agricultural Greenhouse Gases and Developing Mitigation Options using Nuclear and Related Techniques": link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-55396-8

New 'Express mode' will allow measurements of up to 50 samples per day while maintaining excellent precision.

The new 'Survey mode' will allow measurements of up to 150 samples per day.

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Learn more at our Isotopic Water Microsite

How to remove the inlet on your Picarro analyzer.

This customer video summarizes some of the research being conducted by the Southern Cross University Geoscience team and Dr. Luke Jeffrey, investigating methane emissions from tree stems.

The Picarro PI2114 gas concentration analyzer measures hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) levels as low as 3 ppb to help avoid oxidation and safeguard drug stability. Major pharmaceutical, CMO, and isolator companies use Picarro hydrogen peroxide analyzers in high-potency API and biologics manufacturing and in aseptic fill and finish. The PI2114 analyzer is fast and easy to use. It doesn’t need chemicals or consumables. And it requires infrequent calibration and maintenance to minimize operating costs.

This instructional video serves as a tutorial on how to cut tubing and install Swagelok® fittings and it provides an overview of Picarro's dry gas kit. All product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners.

This is a brief tutorial on how to avoid memory effects during calibration procedures by flushing old gas or room air out of your regulator.

Inlet particulate filters on Picarro instruments should be changed at least every 2-3 years. This tutorial takes users over the steps required to replace and leak check their inlet filter. Filters can be found on the webstore at the links below.

Metal: store.picarro.com/For-Analyzer/Parts/Particulate-filter-kit-all-models-except-HF-NH3.html

Installing the Vaporizer Salt Liner on Isotopic Water Systems.

Swap out the salt liner every time you change the septum, about every 200-300 injections. Soak in DI water until clean, or sonicate without the gasket to remove residue.

Salt Liners: store.picarro.com/For-Peripherals/Vaporizer/Salt-Liner.html

This is a brief tutorial on how to replace the vaporizer septum on your Picarro analyzer.

View septa on our web store:
store.picarro.com/For-Peripherals/Vaporizer/Injection-Port-Septa.html

Video showing Picarro analyzers going through severe shock and vibration tests before shipment.

 

In light of recent rulemaking around Ethylene Oxide, Medical Device Sterilization facilities are considering facility enhancements that leverage state-of-the-art emissions monitoring, collection, and destruction technologies.

Join Picarro and guest industry subject matter experts from Pond & Company as they discuss what to consider when determining how to maintain compliance without disrupting your business operations.

The webinar will explore:

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With the publication of the US EPA’s amendments to the Ethylene Oxide (EtO, EO) NESHAP rules impacting commercial sterilizers and chemical companies, many are wondering how to maintain operational continuity in light of new monitoring requirements. Timeline of compliance, adoption of new monitoring systems, facility upgrades, impacts to throughput and other concerns now occupy the minds of owners and operators.

Attendees of this webcast delved into the captivating realm of cloud migration and its profound impact on various data sources, including edge devices, databases, and systems. Attendees of this webcast learned about the value of migration to the cloud on various data sources including edge devices, devices, databases, and systems and how to derive business value from data.

Picarro is a leading provider of asset management solutions for the natural gas industry.

This webinar was co-presented by Picarro Inc., CenterPoint Energy, and the Southern Gas Assocation.

Conventional Distribution Integrity Risk (DIM) models typically rely on historical and static parameters to predict risk. In this webinar, you'll learn how mobile Advanced Leak Detection (ALD) enables you to augment your DIM program with real-time methane data. With this improved model you can produce a more predictive and granular view of risk and optimize important capital investment decisions such as pipe replacement initiatives.

WEI, Picarro, and PG&E Webinar 2021

Although agriculture contributes substantially to air pollution and climate change, there is rather little discussion on how to mitigate the three major greenhouse gases and ammonia simultaneously from agricultural soils. In this webinar, Dr. Eri Saikawa, Emory University, will present findings from a project that aims to tackle this question in a corn field, while keeping the yield intact.

 

Picarro is committed to supporting science with its advanced gas concentration and isotopic analyzers. In this webinar, we will present:
- New Express and Survey Modes for isotopic Water Analyzers – highest throughput solution
- New OC/EC solution for isotopic Carbon Analyzers – tracing Air Pollution

Picarro is committed to supporting science with its advanced gas concentration and isotopic analyzers. In this webinar, we will present the latest improvements to our analyzers and share how our customers are using them in their research.

"Ethylene Oxide is now believed to be more harmful than previously realized and industry initiatives are underway to better characterize the risk to workers and communities. Outdoor fugitive emissions must be accurately quantified, not only at the source, such as exhaust stacks, but also at the facility fenceline and in ambient air. Indoors, the task is equally challenging when trying to characterize the air quality in places like central processing facilities, aeration and storage rooms, ventilation systems, hallways and offices. View

In this webinar, Dr Christine O’Connell (Silver Lab, Berkeley) will discuss the application of the G2508 and Eosense eosAC chamber system to studying redox and drought conditions in a montane rainforest in Puerto Rico. Dr. Nick Nickerson (Eosense) will continue the discussion with demonstration of the use of the Picarro GasScouter in an off-grid wetland deployment with the eosAC chamber system, as well as demonstration of a portable survey-style application in a coastal barren/wetland ecosystem. Dr. Gregor Lucic (Picarro) will finish up the discussion by providing an overview of how a

Volcanoes are amazing features and a major contributor of CO2 to the atmosphere. One challenge has been to measure the carbon isotopic signature of a volcanic plume, which tells a lot about the deep processes and can potentially help forecast eruptions. This one-hour webinar will feature John Stix (Professor, McGill University) and Fiona D’Arcy (PhD student, McGill University) joined by Gregor Lucic (Application Scientist, Picarro) as they unravel the possibilities when deploying Picarro instruments in the field.

Methane is the second most prevalent greenhouse gas emitted from human activities. Atmospheric methane concentrations have tripled since pre-industrial times, and this increase has contributed about 20% of the global radiative forcing due to long-lived greenhouse gases. Quantifying sources of methane is therefore necessary to inform future climate change mitigation policy.

In this webinar replay Felix Vogel (Researcher, LSCE) and David Kim-Hak (Product Manager, Picarro) will introduce you to identifying urban and industrial greenhouse gas sources using the Picarro G2201-i for best-in-class greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration and isotopic measurements.

In this webinar replay, learn about how Picarro's Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) technology can be used to measure soil gas flux in-situ. Dr. Nabil Saad (Picarro, Inc.) is joined by Dr. Jesper Christiansen (U. of Copenhagen) and Dr. Nick Nickerson (Eosense). Jesper and Nick have hands-on experience with Picarro's G2508 Soil Flux System and they share their experience and results in achieving lower detection limits in gas flux measurements during the webinar.

Listen to Adam Subhas (California Institute of Technology), Nick Rollins (University of Southern California) and Nabil Saad (Picarro, Inc.) discuss making accurate and precise total carbon and δ13C measurements on discrete samples using a Picarro Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer and the Liaison Introduction System. Adam and Nick will demonstrate how Picarro carbon isotope analyzers can be coupled to an Automate FX for seawater DIC measurements and solid carbonates, and to an Elemental Analyzer for organic carbon measurements and TOC. Adam will also share recent results from calcite dissolution

This webinar, featuring Riley Duren from NASA/JPL and Caltech, and Graham Leggett, Picarro, Inc., will focus on urban carbon emissions monitoring. Riley will share his experiences from deploying the LA Megacities Project and the goals of their research. Graham will present information about how Picarro technology has facilitated the development of such networks, including providing information on the Picarro G2301 and G2401 for best-in-class greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration measurements. If you are interested in learning about urban networks for

This webinar, featuring Dr. Niels Munksgaard of James Cook University and Charles Darwin University, and Dr. Kate Dennis, Picarro will review how membrane-extraction technology has been coupled to CRDS for ocean science applications. In particular, we will discuss the new Picarro Continuous Water Sampler for real-time analysis of of δ18O and δ2H in liquid water.

Please register to view a playback recording of this webinar featuring Picarro Research Fellow, Chris Rella, PhD and Application Specialist, Caleb Arata. They discuss how carbon isotopes measurements are made via Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) and how careful calibration can improve the stability of measurements for demanding atmospheric applications. If you want to learn more about how to optimize your calibration protocol and field set up for measuring δ13C in ambient atmospheric CO2 and CH4, this is the webinar for you!

Please register to view a playback recording of this webinar, featuring Professor Richard Farrell (University of Saskatchewan) and Dr. Nabil Saad (Picarro). They discuss the application and underlying technology that enabled Prof. Farrell to partition residue-derived and residue-induced emissions of N2O from agricultural lands using 15N-labelled crop residues. If you are interested in learning more about how nitrogen isotopes can be applied to soil and agriculture studies, or are interested in Picarro's mid infrared Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy platform, this is the webinar