{"id":2294,"date":"2017-01-18T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uniphosamericas.com\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2024-09-19T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T07:35:10","slug":"uniphos-pid-pre-filter-tube-for-benzene-specific-measurements","status":"publish","type":"announcement","link":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/announcement\/uniphos-pid-pre-filter-tube-for-benzene-specific-measurements\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniphos PID Pre-filter Tube for Benzene Specific Measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2295 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Uniphos PID Pre-filter Tube for Benzene Specific Measurements\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0138.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Benzene naturally occurs in crude oil and is used to make plastics, resins, synthetic fibers, dyes, detergents, additives and coatings, and pesticides. It is a widely used aromatic hydrocarbon which constitutes 1-2% of gasoline and other fuels.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">While benzene is a very useful hydrocarbon that offers diverse applications, it is also a known human carcinogen.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lists the PEL-TWA at 1 ppm, and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) have the TLV-TWA at 0.5 ppm.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Industry requires a means to measure low concentrations of benzene (typically below 1 ppm) in the presence of various hydrocarbons, often 100 to 1000X the concentration of benzene.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Uniphos Envirotronic Inc., a recognized leader in colorimetric detection tubes, has developed a PID pre-filter tube for selective determination of benzene in air containing a mixture of volatile organic compounds (e.g. toluene, xylene, ethyl benzene, octane, etc.). The measuring range for benzene using the PID pre-filter tube by Uniphos is 50 ppb to 200 ppm. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">At Uniphos, we are ready to help you find the right PID pre-filter tube or detector tube to suit your needs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uniphosamericas.com\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a> today to learn more!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benzene naturally occurs in crude oil and is used to make plastics, resins, synthetic fibers, dyes, detergents, additives and coatings, and pesticides. It is a widely used aromatic hydrocarbon which constitutes 1-2% of gasoline and other fuels.\u00a0 While benzene is a very useful hydrocarbon that offers diverse applications, it is also a known human carcinogen.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2295,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"announcement-category":[],"class_list":["post-2294","announcement","type-announcement","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/announcement"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/2294\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"announcement-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniphos-envirotronic.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement-category?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}