Using Owlstone's proprietary and established Faims technology, the new Lonestar instrument offers the flexibility to provide both rapid alerts and detailed sample analysis
A powerful new chemical detection system has been released by Cambridge based Owlstone .
Lonestar can be trained to respond to a broad range of chemical scenarios and is easily integrated with other sensors and third party systems to provide a complete monitoring solution.
This makes Lonestar ideally suited to a wide variety of applications ranging from online process monitoring to laboratory based R+D.
says the company.
The Faims sensor acts as a reprogrammable filter, separating and identifying chemicals according to their characteristic mobility.
The sensor 'filters out' the background chemicals that do not conform to the mobility signature of the user-defined target chemical.
Hence one of the key benefits is the power and flexibility of Lonestar to be user programmed to detect a very broad range of chemicals.
Owlstone's miniaturised Faims (field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer) device is manufactured from silicon using conventional Mems fabrication techniques.
Says European business development manager, Chris Prior-Jones: "Unlike miniaturising IMS drift tubes the scaling laws for Faims enable performance improvements in sensitivity and resolution, while batch Mems fabrication techniques result in significant reduction in cost and size".
