Abstract: An apparatus for checking gas analysis devices in respect of their sensitivity and their response and regeneration behaviour with respect to time, wherein a reproducible quantity of the measurement component is produced at a predetermined production rate, for a period of time which is guided entirely or at a constant proportion as a concentration pulse to the measurement element of the gas analysis device. For the production of the measurement component a chemical or electro-chemical reaction or even a thermal reaction is used. The time interval can then be conveniently controlled. A decisive advantage with toxic measurement components is that the gas production takes place in all cases for only a short time during the test procedure.

Abstract: A method for checking gas analysis devices in respect of their sensitivity and their response and regeneration behaviour with respect to time, wherein a reproducible quantity of the measurement component is produced at a predetermined production rate, for a period of time which is guided entirely or at a constant proportion as a concentration pulse to the measurement element of the gas analysis device. For the production of the measurement component a chemical or electro-chemical reaction or even a thermal reaction is used. The time interval can then be conveniently controlled. A decisive advantage with toxic measurement components is that the gas production takes place in all cases for only a short time during the test procedure.

Abstract: An electrochemical gas detector based on an electrolytic measurement cell having a normally solid organic electrolyte. The gas component to be detected diffuses out of the gas chamber at a three phase border (electrolyte-electrode-gas chamber) and there causes a change in the electrochemical equilibrium. As a result in an outer closing circuit a measurable electrical current is produced. The electrolyte consists of an anhydrous organic gel with a very low vapor pressure. The gas chamber adjacent to the three phase border constitutes a partly sealed cavity, which is in communication with the gas atmosphere to be examined via an absorption filter selectively permeable to the measurement component. The length of the cavity is dimensioned so as to be so short that practically no back diffusion of the measurement component through the filter takes place.

Abstract: In a method for determining the inorganic carbon content of aqueous liquids, the liquid sample together with a carbon dioxide free carrier gas is injected vertically from top to bottom in to a heated reaction chamber. The reaction chamber is filled with liquid phosphoric acid. The carbon dioxide generated in the reaction of the sample with the phosphoric acid is fed to a CO.sub.2 analyser. The reaction chamber is preferably heated to a temperature of approximately 140.degree. C.

Abstract: In a process for the removal of samples from flue gases or other highly concentrated exhaust gases, before the sample is removed from the main stream of exhaust gas it is diluted with a carrier gas which is free from this exhaust gas. The sample is diluted in the main stream of exhaust gas by a carrier gas introduced from outside. The diluted sample can then be analyzed in conventional gas analyzers.

Abstract: In the gas detector the gas stream to be investigated is conveyed past one of two electrodes of a measuring cell. The two electrodes are in contact with an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte is an anhydrous organic gel. The gas component to be measured changes the electrochemical equilibrium at one of the two electrodes and produces thereby in the outer closing circuit a measurable electrical current which is a measure of the concentration of the gas component, to be detected.

Abstract: In a process for the determination of the inorganic carbon content of aqueous liquids, the sample to be examined, together with a carbon dioxide-free carrier gas, is introduced into a heated reaction chamber, where it is reacted with crystalline potassium bisulphate and/or a mixture of equal parts of potassium bisulphate and potassium sulphate to form carbon dioxide and water. The CO.sub.2 generated is analyzed quantitatively in a CO.sub.2 analyzer.

Abstract: In a process for determining the total mercury content in samples of effluent water, the sample is collected on a sample collector where it is evaporated at 1000.degree. C before it is decomposed in a pyrolysis zone at 1000.degree. to 1200.degree. C. The mercury in the liquid sample is thereby expelled as vapor and together with carrier gas it is conducted over a metal sheet which absorbs the mercury and concentrates it. The concentrated mercury is then expelled by heating the metal and transferred by the carrier gas into a mercury absorption photometer where it is determined quantitatively.

Abstract: In an apparatus for the discontinuous dosing of a constant quantity of fluid into an analysis device, the fluid feed system is connected by means of a three-way valve on the one hand via the dosing valve and a shut off valve arranged downstream and on the other hand via a by-pass to the fluid discharge system. A compressed air source for the production of a constant air pressure is connected between the three-way valve and the dosing valve. All the components of the system are controlled by a programme control unit, so that the fluid flow through the dosing valve is temporarily interrupted by closing the shut off valve and switching over the fluid feed to the by-pass and at the same time releasing the connection of the compressed air to the dosing valve. Thereafter the compressed air source is switched off by the control unit and the interruption of the fluid flow at the dosing valve is cancelled.