GAS DILUTION CONTROLLED FLOW TO BE FED TO A MASS SPECTOMETER A SOLID BUSINESS CASE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE “POLITECNICO DI BARI“ GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT Dilution&Sampling Systems for Portable Hydrocarbon Spectrometers HEAD OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Vincenzo Spagnolo To dilute the gas sample and generate a controlled flow to be directly fed to the mass spectrometer MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HEAD OF THE PROJECT Vincenzo Spagnolo received the degree (summa cum laude) and the PhD, both in physics, from University of Bari. He works as Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Bari. Since 2017, he is the director of the joint-research lab PolySense, created by THORLABS GmbH and Technical University of Bari, devoted to the development and implementation of novel gas sensing techniques and the realization of highly sensitive QEPAS trace-gas sensors

DESCRIPTION OF THE APPLICATION AND THE TARGET The real time and in-situ analysis of natural gas composition is a powerful tool in oil&gas industry for estimating reserves, rock characterization and assisted drilling. Laser based optical techniques represent suitable solutions for addressing this tasks, since they exploit the laser’s narrow spectral resolution and allow for unambiguous detection of trace gas for each component in downhole samples. To date it has been demonstrated that trace gas species can be optically detected with sensitivities down to parts - per -quadrillion concentration...