We provide a range of sensing and detection systems for the U.S. Army, the U.S. and U.K. navies and the NASA International Space Station and Earth observation satellites. In addition, we provide instruments for process gas analysis to the petrochemical, refining, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
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Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer
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Chemical Biological Mass Spectrometer
The CBMS II is an ion trap mass spectrometer for detection and identification of chemical and biological warfare agents
The U. S. military needed the CBMS II to detect chemical and biological threats in the battlefield.
The CBMS II is the baseline chemical detector for two new DoD reconnaissance vehicle programs, the U.S. Army Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV) and the Joint Services Light Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance System (JSLNBCRS). It can detect and identify agents in their liquid forms through the integration of an existing ground probe, or in their vapor forms through a HS developed air sample inlet.
The CBMS II also has the capability to detect and identify biological agents in the same instrument, using a pyrolysis technique for sample introduction. Complete chemical and biological detection is accomplished in less than five minutes. Further planned testing will extend positive laboratory results for biological agents by confirming its performance for aerosol samples from the natural environment.
*HS is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on this development.
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Central Air Monitoring System
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Central Air Monitoring System
The Central Atmosphere Monitoring System (CAMS) Mk II monitors the quality of breathing air aboard nuclear submarines in the U.S., U.K., and Japan.
The U.S. Navy needed the CAMS to ensure that the breathing air for the crew is safe.
The CAMS Mk II was developed by HS in the early 1990s to provide real-time air monitoring for U.S. Navy nuclear submarines to ensure crew safety during long-term submergence. The CAMS Mk II is a real-time software controlled, programmable system, providing quantitative data on up to 35 selected compounds. The system operates autonomously, collecting air samples, analyzing their content, reporting detection results, and generating alarms when levels exceed allowable limits. The CAMS Mk II provides reliable and accurate long-term operational data on a wide range of submarine atmosphere constituents. The CAMS II can be interfaced to the atmosphere control system to provide an integrated life support system for the nuclear submarine.
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Major Constituent Analyzer
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Major Constituent Analyzer
The MCA measures six major atmospheric constituents of the International Space Station living and working spaces.
NASA needed the MCA to ensure that the breathing atmosphere for the astronauts is safe.
The MCA is a six-channel mass spectrometer with a self-contained sampling subsystem, vacuum pump, and calibration subsystem. It monitors O2, N2, H2, CH4, CO2, and H2O partial pressures at multiple locations within the ISS, providing data to the Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). The MCA provides the oxygen values to the control subsystem to regulate the oxygen partial pressure in the cabinet. The MCA software consists of 60,000 lines of real-time code that controls the MCA, provides partial pressure outputs and engineering data, built-in test, and fault isolation. The MCA utilizes a modular approach and is packaged in seven plug-in Orbital Replaceable Units (ORUs).
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Applied Instrument Technologies (AIT)
A series of process monitoring systems are available to continuously analyze and report component concentrations and physical properties of process gas or liquid streams in a wide variety of applications in the natural gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
AIT products are used by customers to reduce processing costs, improve quality and product uniformity and to meet environmental, health and safety regulatory requirements.
The AIT products use the next generation of field-proven process analytical techniques for quantitative analysis of process streams. System development has stressed the use of intuitive user interface features and a Windows-based touch screen format. In some installations, networking and communications capabilities allow the system to send the stream composition data seamlessly through the plant's data highway to the process control system via serial or open Ethernet TCP/IP communications.
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Process Gas Analysis
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Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
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Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
The TOMS maps the total ozone level in the atmosphere.
Ozone measurements from space are vital to monitor the Earth's shield against ultraviolet radiation. NASA needed the TOMS to perform the measurement.
The TOMS is a UV optical spectrometer that monitors and maps ozone levels. TOMS instruments have been providing total ozone data, aerosol and volcanic ash cloud measurements for almost three decades. Four TOMS instruments have been built by HS and one of them is still in operation.
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Wide Field Imaging Spectrometer
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Wide Field Imaging Spectrometer
The WFIS is lightweight, 120-degree field-of-view imaging spectrometer.
There is a need for a high performance hyperspectral imager with reduced volume, weight, and power consumption.
The WFIS is able to meet present-day requirements for miniaturized advanced space instruments. The advanced design of the WFIS permits wide-angle pushbroom scanning without moving parts and with very low weight and power consumption. The WFIS is a patented, all-reflective design with improved spectral and spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio compared to previous instruments.
The WFIS weighs less than 22 pounds and consumes less than 10 watts. It is suitable for spacecraft, aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicle applications.
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