Specialty Gas Applications

Specialty Gas Inc. can supply a wide varitey of specialty gases - both pure gases and mixtures to meet the stringent requirements of diverse applications. Pure gases (up to 99.99999% purity) are used as carrier gases in analytical applications or as process gases in highly sensitive research applications. Mixtures of toxic and reactive gases are used as calibration gases in analytical applications or as process gases. Analytical, environmental and semiconductor are three major industrial applications for specialty gases.

Analytical

Accurate calibration of analytical instruments is essential in quality assurance/control (QA/QC), research and other demanding applications. Spec Gas Inc. can provide very precise and accurate gas calibration standards with certificate of analysis. Many of these gas calibration standards are produced with proprietary blending techniques and are analyzed with NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology) Traceable reference standards. These exacting procedures ensures the customers that the gas standards they get from Spec Gas Inc. are of the 'best quality'!!

Spec Gas Inc. can provide gas standards for Gas chromatographs (GCs) with many different types of detectors including FID (Flame Ionization Detector), ECD (Electron Capture Detector) and PID (Photoionization Detector); Mass spectrometer (MS) and IR instruments including FTIR (Fourier Transform InfraRed) and NDiR (Non-dispersive Infrared).

Spec Gas Inc. can also provide various hydrocarbon standards used in petrochemical industries and natural gas industries.

Environmental

Companies and various organizations monitor their emissions or indoor air quality to meet various governmental regulations. Spec Gas Inc. can provide gas standards for

* Monitoring emissions from stationary sources and mobile sources, as required by the EPA or various state environmental agencies.

* Work place safety & industrial hygiene monitoring required by OSHA and other regulatory agencies

* Zero gases with very tight specifications for contaminants to ensure that the reference gas used in analysis does not interfere with the analysis itself

Semiconductor

Semiconductor and related industries use a variety of very reactive gases and toxic gases in their manufacturing processes. These very demanding processes require gases with very low contaminant levels and Spec Gas Inc. has the capability to supply these very high purity gases. A sample list of gases which Spec Gas Inc. can provide for the semiconductor industry include

* Etchant Gases - Boron Trichloride, Halocarbons, Hydrogen Bromide, Nitrogen Trifluoride and Sulfur Hexafluoride

* Dopant Gases - Arsine, Boron Trifluoride, Diborane and Phosphine

* Silicon Source Gases - Dichlorosilane, Silane, Silicon Tetrachloride and Silicon Tetrafluoride

* Other Reactive Gases - Ammonia and Nitric Oxide