History and Applications

HISTORY OF DESIGN AND COMMON USEAGE 
 
Long before HG became an environmental exposure issue , which made obsolete the traditional method, a major oil company contacted Emdyne, Inc., in the early 1980’s, to help with the design of a mechanical volume recording instrument for their core flood laboratory studies. After about 2 years, a first generation design reached completion and numerous iterations were built for the oil company’s in house use in their tertiary oil recovery research labs. The design proved to be reliable and accurate for their purposes. A patent was granted the design in the mid 1980’s. 

At this time, two other patents were granted for related lab equipment:  an Oscillating Back Pressure regulator, and a Dual Piston continuous flow high pressure, low pulse pump. These designs are no longer produced by Emdyne Inc.. The Emdyne Gasmeter is a more general instrument and is surviving in its present form thanks in large part to the collaboration of an industry leader in geological core analysis. 

When this new company became aware of a Gasmeter example in Canada in the late 1990’s, a call came to Emdyne to look into redesigning the basic unit to include several improvements not incorporated in the original units. A thorough redesign program then ensued, a prototype was made and tested, further changes were added and a final design arrived in about the year 2000. This explains the MK 2000 designation on the instrument front panel. 

Although the Gasmeter has been used primarily for core flood studies in the oil and gas business, it can be exploited for other potential uses in industry. These may include:
 
High School and University Chemistry Departments 
Chemical Manufacturing and research laboratories 
National Research and development laboratories 
Defense Industry program development and analytical studies 
Precise Sample collection for manufacturing process quality control 
Aerospace Science research and analysis