State-of-the-Art Commercial Instruments, Standards, and Calibration

In this section, we present some of the commercially available detectors for CWAs and toxic chemicals that are based on IMS or DMS. These include a large variety of devices ranging from handheld, or even pocket-size, instruments to larger fixed-point monitors that can even be placed in the ventilation system of buildings. The devices mentioned here are for demonstration purposes and are not to be understood as recommended by us. 

Bruker Daltonics has also developed chanical monitors based on IMS technology that cover CWA and TIC detection tasks (Hgure 13.3). The RAID series includes the portable RAID-M 100 detector, which provides very low detection limits, and the RADD-XP, which has chemical and radiological detection in one system, as well as the 

FIGURE 13.1 (a) Checking for chemical agents with the CAM. (b) Vapor sampling for 

RAID-AFM (Automated Facility Monitor) especially designed for critical infrastructure and facilities monitoring and the RAID-S2 designed for all classes of naval vessels. 

Based on the ChemPro 100 model of Environics, ChemRae (San Jose, CA) developed a handheld detector that reportedly provides enhanced selectivity and 

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