Paraytec's ActiPix D100 system is being used by the Biosystems Research Group to develop a capillary electrophoresis-based monitoring system for the Explosive Destruction System.
Explosive Destruction System or EDS is a transportable treatment system designed to destroy explosively configured World War I and World War II-era munitions.
The EDS can be used to detonate chemical munitions safely and neutralise the associated chemical agents without venting to atmosphere.
For real-time monitoring of the degradation of munitions, Sandia is building an automated microfluidic platform that extracts and processes a small sample for analysis by sensitive electrophoretic separations in a capillary.
At the heart of the platform is Paraytec's ActiPix D100 UV area imaging detector.
Initially chosen for its compact size, the detector has been integrated into the automated monitoring system.
The ActiPix detector is able to actively monitor two (or more) detection points simultaneously.
Applications for the ActiPix are area imaging or capillary based.
Area imaging applications include real-time study of diffusion processes, in-line quantification and sizing of biopharmaceuticals, dissolution/solubility testing and membrane transport studies.
Capillary-based applications use the ActiPix D100 as a sensitive and selective detector for multiplexed capillary electrophoresis (CE), nano-liquid chromatography (nanoLC) and capillary LC experiments.
