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ArticleJournal of chromatography. A2023

Portable chemical detection platform for on-site monitoring of odorant levels in natural gas.

Stephanie Fung, Raquel Pimentel Contreras, Alexander G Fung, Patrick Gibson, Michael K LeVasseur, Mitchell M McCartney, Dylan T Koch, Pranay Chakraborty, Bradley S Chew, Maneeshin Y Rajapakse and 3 more

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Article in Journal of chromatography. A, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephanie FungDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Raquel Pimentel ContrerasDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Alexander G FungDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Patrick GibsonDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Michael K LeVasseurDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Mitchell M McCartneyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.; VA Northern California Health Care System, 10535 Hospital Way, Mather, CA 95655, USA.
Dylan T KochUC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Pranay ChakrabortyDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Bradley S ChewDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Maneeshin Y RajapakseDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Daniel A ChevyUC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Tristan L HicksDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Cristina E DavisDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; UC Davis Lung Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.; VA Northern California Health Care System, 10535 Hospital Way, Mather, CA 95655, USA. Electronic address: cedavis@ucdavis.edu.
University of California, Davis · USVA Northern California Health Care System · US

Funding

UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science CenterUL1TR001860 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI KENYON, NICHOLAS J., LYLES, COURTNEY REES · 2016 to 2025
$47.3M
UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Core CenterP30ES023513 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI Ameer Taha · 2015 to 2026
$26.0M
TRAINING IN COMPARATIVE LUNG BIOLOGY AND MEDICINET32HL007013 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI Elena Goncharova, Nicholas J. KENYON · 1985 to 2026
$10.1M
Revisiting ReCHARGE: ECHO Follow up on Middle Childhood and AdolescenceUG3OD023365 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI BENNETT, DEBORAH HALL, HERTZ-PICCIOTTO, IRVA · 2016 to 2024
$6.4M
Monitoring of disease-induced skin VOC patterns from handheld and wearable chemical sensorsU01TR004083 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI CRISTINA ELIZABETH DAVIS, Nicholas J. KENYON · 2022 to 2026
$5.9M
Portable GC detector for breath-based COVID diagnosticsU18TR003795 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI DAVIS, CRISTINA ELIZABETH, KENYON, NICHOLAS J. · 2021 to 2022
$1.9M
BLRD VA I01 BX004965NCATS NIH HHS U01 TR004083NCATS NIH HHS U18 TR003795NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001860NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007013NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES023513NIH HHS UG3 OD023365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The adequate odorization of natural gas is critical to identify gas leaks and to reduce accidents. To ensure odorization, natural gas utility companies collect samples to be processed at core facilities or a trained human technician smells a diluted natural gas sample. In this work, we report a detection platform that addresses the lack of mobile solutions capable of providing quantitative analysis of mercaptans, a class of compounds used to odorize natural gas. Detailed description of the platform hardware and software components is provided. Designed to be portable, the platform hardware facilitates extraction of mercaptans from natural gas, separation of individual mercaptan species, and quantification of odorant concentration, with results reported at point-of-sampling. The software was developed to accommodate skilled users as well as minimally trained operators. Detection and quantification of six commonly used mercaptan compounds (ethyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, n-propylmercaptan, isopropyl mercaptan, tert‑butyl mercaptan, and tetrahydrothiophene) at typical odorizing concentrations of 0.1-5 ppm was performed using the device. We demonstrate the potential of this technology to ensure natural gas odorizing concentrations throughout distribution systems.

Indexed as

Natural GasOdorantsHumansSulfhydryl CompoundsSulfur CompoundsNatural GasSulfhydryl CompoundsSulfur CompoundsChemical sensorsGas chromatographyMercaptansNatural gasOdorants

Identifiers

PMID37419015
PMCPMC11014743
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