New permeability meter measures vapour contamination
Versaperm has introduced a new permeability meter able to achieve the difficult task of measuring vapour contamination in medical and pharmaceutical packaging.
It can be configured to measure the permeability of most gases, including water vapour, hydrogen, helium, hydrocarbons, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
The meter is claimed to take around 1% of the time needed for conventional (gravimetric) measurements. And can measure to an accuracy of parts per million, even parts per billion with some gasses and materials. The meter can be used on huge range of materials and enclosures – from capsules to foil laminates and from blister packaging to inhalers, syringes and analytical instrument enclosures. It can also provide measurements of substances that might otherwise be decomposed by normal measurement techniques.
As well as manufacturing the instruments, Versaperm offers a water vapour permeability laboratory service for companies that need to test samples on an irregular basis