Press Releases: 2024

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PAC Unveils PACe: A Digital Connectivity Platform for Compatible PAC Products Enabling Real-Time Analytics

March

PACe supports a seamless transition of compatible PAC instruments into an integrated digital platform.

HOUSTON, TEXAS / March 26, 2024

PAC, a global leader in the manufacture of analytical instrumentation, proudly introduces PACe – a cloud-based digital platform designed to connect compatible PAC instruments. This platform provides customers with real-time insights to help drive efficient decisions regarding asset management, operational workflow, and service diagnostics.

In a rapidly changing landscape marked by economic uncertainties, supply chain disruptions, and the pursuit of net-zero emissions goals, PAC recognizes the pivotal role of digital transformation in fostering competitiveness and resilience for its customers. By leveraging extensive domain knowledge, global service capabilities, and industry-leading analytical instrumentation, PAC offers PACe as an innovative solution to support customers in their digital transformation, achieve IoT goals, and optimize laboratory efficiency.

PACe combines asset management, instrument insights, and preventative maintenance within an easy-to-deploy cloud-based architecture. By integrating seamlessly into existing IT infrastructures, PACe delivers faster, richer data, improves product margins for maximum throughput, and offers automated, real-time condition monitoring — all with regards to each organization’s safety protocols, compliancy standards, and cybersecurity programs.

A powerful tool designed to assist customers in optimizing their assets and operations, PACe refines workflow by leveraging intelligent data to forecast capacity and calculate costs – unifying the functionality of compatible PAC instruments and operational software across laboratories within the same organization.

It serves as a singular platform for accessing, analyzing, and utilizing measured and calculated data, offering features and diagnostics to meet current and future customer needs.

“The PACe platform is a remarkable advancement for PAC customers that are embracing digital transformation,” said Pete Morris, President of PAC. “Integrating PAC instruments with the digital platform offers customers improved efficiency and workflow, and helps enable informed decision-making backed by real-time data and continuous monitoring.”

For additional information about PACe, please contact your local PAC representative.

About PAC

PAC is a leading global manufacturer of advanced analytical instruments, delivering solutions for the petrochemical, hydrocarbon, process, aviation, packaging, pharmaceutical, renewable fuel, and medical device industries since 1931. PAC is headquartered in Houston, Texas and is a subsidiary of Indicor, LLC.

PAC Launches the Next Generation of Sulfur and Nitrogen Detection for Gas Chromatography

April

SeNSe² uses chemiluminescence to conduct speciated sulfur and nitrogen detection to achieve regulatory compliance, protect catalysts, and maximize product quality.

HOUSTON, TEXAS / April 4, 2024

PAC announces the launch of SeNSe², its latest sulfur/nitrogen selective detector for gas chromatography (GC) applications. Sulfur and nitrogen detection are necessary in various processes across diverse market spaces. Addressing the need for speciation beyond total content reporting, SeNSe² uses the chemiluminescence detection methods to achieve enhanced sensitivity, baseline stability, equimolarity, and optimized flexibility needed for seamless integration into laboratory environments.

Designed for ease of use, SeNSe² simplifies speciated sulfur and nitrogen detection, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations, safeguarding catalysts, improving product quality, and creating safer working conditions.

SeNSe² has an automatic detector functionality check made possible by its innovative G-Cal permeation device. Regular GC maintenance and even column replacement can be done without detector shutdown. The accessibility of the detector is made easier with removable panels and fast ceramics replacement. Its 7” touchscreen interface provides valuable insights into detector diagnostics and error logs, contributing to a user-friendly experience. The standalone automated leak and pressure check ensures an outstanding performance. Moreover, SeNSe² is compatible with most manufacturers' GCs, ensuring hassle-free installation.

SeNSe² can be used in a simple configuration or as part of a turnkey solution for various applications, including natural gas, benzene, light petroleum liquids, and more. SeNSe² provides solutions for ASTM D5504, ASTM D5623, ASTM D7011, ASTM D7807, and custom applications, such as carbonyl sulfide in propylene gas and nitric oxide in ethylene, are also available upon request.

“Addressing the critical need for constant monitoring of sulfur and nitrogen species in refining processes, SeNSe² ensures accurate and reliable detection, even at the lowest levels,” said Nicole M. Lock, product manager. “With unparalleled sensitivity, linearity, and long-term stability,” she continued, “SeNSe² is poised to revolutionize sulfur and nitrogen detection in gas chromatography applications.”

In terms of detection capabilities, SeNSe² excels in both low limit detection and linearity. It can detect concentrations below 0.15 pgS/sec and maintains four decades of linearity, setting a new standard in sulfur and nitrogen detection for gas chromatography applications.

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