DB Gold and Performax

Interested in enhanced cylinder stability for your application?

EffecTech’s Research and Development Laboratory has developed a new proprietary method of cylinder passivation which provides enhanced cylinder stability for reactive components.

EffecTech can supply

• empty cylinders for customer filling
• reference gas mixtures in DB Gold and Performax (where they are covered by our scopes of accreditation for ISO 17034 and ISO 17025)

to determine which cylinder passivation treatment is suitable for your requirements, please contact us.

• DB Gold is suitable for mixtures containing
  • formaldehyde at ppb levels
  • water at low ppm levels
  • sulphur at ppb levels
  • ozone precursors at ppb levels
• Performax, which is suitable for mixtures containing
  • acetonitrile
    • for more details, see the 2024 white paper published by the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science: Development of accurate and stable primary standard gas mixtures for global atmospheric acetonitrile monitoring: evaluating adsorption loss and long-term stability
  • sulphurs

Cylinder sizes available

• DB Gold is available in
  • 5L, 10L, 20L and 50L Luxfer cylinders
• Performax is available in
  • 1L, 5L, 10L, 20L and 50L Luxfer cylinders