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In response to the current global shortage of helium, the EffecTech presentation on alternative carrier gases for process gas analysers has been updated as a PDF for general release:
EffecTech – Alternative carrier gases for process gas analysers
The presentation looks at why helium is used as a carrier gas in natural gas chromatography, why the helium price has risen in 2019 and an overview of the pros and cons of the alternatives: nitrogen, argon and hydrogen.
AccreditationsReturn to the Alternative carrier gases for process gas analysers – Free PDF presentation page
In order to supply excellent quality service to our customers, EffecTech now holds five accreditations, awarded by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), listed below.
You can also access all of EffecTech’s UKAS accreditation certificates and scopes in our UKAS wallet.
This accreditation covers all reference material manufactured by EffecTech’s production facilities and laboratories – Calibration Gases.
This accreditation covers all calibrations carried out in the EffecTech laboratories and on gas quality measurement systems at customers' sites, including calibration gases and performance evaluations – Calibration Gases.
This covers the provision of the inspection of gas quality measurement systems – Performance Evaluation and Inspections.
This covers the provision of:
This accreditation covers the analysis of natural gas from customers' sites to determine the physical properties of the gas – Natural Gas Analysis.
EffecTech also holds ISO 9001:2015 certification, awarded by the British Standards Institute (BSI).
For more information about BSI, please click here.
As part of its commitment to staff development, EffecTech has successfully maintained its Investors in People (IIP) accreditation for over five years.
For more information about Investors in People, please see their website: www.investorsinpeople.com
The International Standards Organisation website describes an International Standard as a document that “provides rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or for their results, aimed at achieving the optimum degree of order in a given context. It can take many forms. Apart from product standards, other examples include: test methods, codes of practice, guideline standards and management systems standards.”
Organisations that have successfully achieved accreditation to ISO standards have demonstrated their competence through an independent third-party review by their accreditation body. This gives customers confidence that their suppliers are using the latest approved methods and that they deliver what they claim to.
UKAS provides accreditation to conformity assessment bodies that carry out conformity assessment in accordance with standards. Examples of the accreditations that UKAS can award include accreditation as a calibration laboratory (ISO 17025:2005), testing laboratory (ISO17025:2005), inspection body (ISO 17020:2012) and proficiency testing provider (ISO 17043:2010).
Under their accreditations conformity assessment bodies will carry out tasks/activities in accordance with applicable national, European and international standard(s), regulations and guides. For example under EffecTech’s accreditation as a calibration laboratory we can perform the calibration of gas analysers used for natural gas analysis in accordance with ISO 10723:2012.
These standards, which currently underpin the use of gas chromatography for gas quality measurement form the basis of many commercial contracts.
