Millennium Projects
Technical Details
Millennium Project Number: M-2002-019
Project Title: PCB/PFT Explosives Real-Time Analyzer
Project Start Date: 2003
Projected End Date: 2006
Technical Details:
The objective of this project is to take a NASA/JPL technology and modify the design such that a mobile lab-type truck can be equipped with a PCB (alpha unit) and later a PCB/PFT (beta unit) for real-time field analysis. The Reversal Electron Attachment Detector or READ instrument is capable of detecting PCB's in sludge from a gas main or oils in a manhole, and perfluorcarbon tracers (PFT's) that are injected into a gas main upstream of a very saturated gas migration pattern as a resourcing for leak pinpointing. EPA approval for PCB identification will be sought. The prime consultant handling the NASA/JPL intellectual property, manufacturing efforts of JMAR, EPA approval process, and funds management will be FemtoTrace. The goal is for FemtoTrace to use feedback from the field-testing of the alpha and beta units so that JMAR can establish a commercial presence in the utility and other industries.