Eddie Banks from Flinders University took all his instruments to Laos to study the river/groundwater exchange over hundreds of kilometers along the Namn Ghum river. Take a look at his photos of how the very first miniRUEDI made by Gasometrix sniffs the waters!
In their recent paper “A Novel Approach To Quantify Air–Water Gas Exchange in Shallow Surface Waters Using High-Resolution Time Series of Dissolved Atmospheric Gases“, Uli Weber and his colleagues developed a new method to study and quantify the air-water gas exchange in a shallow surface waters. The method uses a miniRUEDI to quantify the natural variations of dissolved atmospheric gases in the water. The resulting high-resolution time series of dissolved gas concentrations in the water yield accurate gas exchange rates without adding artificial tracers.
In their recent paper “On-line monitoring of the gas composition in the full-scale emplacement experiment at Mont Terri (Switzerland)“, Yama Tomonaga and his colleagues at Nagra, Eawag and ETH Zurich used a miniRUEDI to study the dynamics and the fate of the gas species in a tunnel of a full-scale experiment targeted at radioactive waste disposal in Switzerland.
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In their recent paper “In-situ mass spectrometry improves the estimation of stream reaeration from gas-tracer tests“, Julia Knapp and her colleagues at Uni Tübingen and Eawag used two miniRUEDI instruments to study air/water exchange in small streams.
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Because of popular demand we summarised the most important features of the miniRUEDI in a datasheet document: miniRUED Datasheet
HeliumOne, the Oxford Noble lab, and the University of Dar es Salaam are on the hunt for helium — and they will be using a miniRUEDI!
The foundation of Gasometrix GmbH as an Eawag Spin-Off was well received in the media. Tages Anzeiger and some other newspapers picked up the Eawag press release, and I got interviewed by Swiss Radio and Television for their Science Magazine. Here’s the interview (in German):
Analyses of environmental gases which previously required months of laboratory work can now be carried out rapidly in the field. A group of Eawag scientists have developed a portable mass spectrometer allowing on-site measurements – and a spin-off has been created to commercialize the new system. (read the full article)
The following figure shows an m/z scan obtained from a miniRUEDI analysis of ambient air. The electron impact ionization energy of the ionizer (EE) was set to the default value of 70 eV for this measurement. Using lower EE values would reduce double ionisation. This chart is useful to assess the occurrence and importance of interferences of peak signals related to different gas species at the same m/z value.
Here is an interactive map showing some miniRUEDI applications around the world: Link