AlburtyLab Hydrosol Concentrator successful in concentrating DNA - Bg DNA concentrated at over 45X with greater than 70% efficiency as part of SBIR development efforts (preliminary data)

AlburtyLab wins Leonard Wood Institute Early Stage Business Research and Development SBIR Grant. This grant will facilitate our Demonstration of a Sample Preparation Method for Biological Detection Based on our new concentration technology, and begins immediately.

AlburtyLab welcomes Alec Adolphson to our staff. Alec brings depth to our information systems management team, and will also be assisting in the Engineering Division.

AlburtyLab Staff grows to 11 with the addition of O. David Scheib, M.S. David is a Drexel Native, and will be assisting in test execution and process improvement.

AlburtyLab welcomes Pam Murowchick aboard as Director of Laboratory Operations. Pam's 17 years of wide-ranging experience in field and laboratory aerosol R&D will help us provide you with even better service and support capabilities.

AlburtyLab and Page Applied Research teamed up this month to further demonstrate the abilities of the newly developed Hydrosol Concentrator (patents pending). Micron-sized test particles suspended in water were successfully concentrated to 150X with nearly 100% efficiency. Even smaller particles were also efficiently concentrated.

Shootout! Three different aerosol sampler/detectors challenged in the aerosol chamber, referenced to 47 mm dry-reference filters and the APS. Comparative work and qualitative results will be reported confidentially to our sponsors.

Two papers given by AlburtyLab staff at the 2007 AAAR Convention in Reno, NV, Sept. 22-26 are now available by request: Tribulations in the Development of an Aerosol Concentrator (#2P3) and Electrical Enrichment of Bioaerosols near Ground Level (11B2).

The AlburtyLab Liquid Particle Concentrator is being evaluated for inclusion in multiple US Government aerosol detection programs: Program managers for 5 different US Government aerosol detection programs are evaluating a proprietary particle concentration technology developed in collaboration with Page Applied Research, LLC, of Kansas City, Missouri. This technology has currently been demonstrated to efficiently concentrate micron-sized particles suspended in 10 mL of fluid into 10 uL of fluid within seconds.

U.S. Patent Application submitted May 30 for our liquid-liquid particle concentration process. Concentration factors of up to 1500X are demonstrated, as well as methods for attaining nearly 100% efficiency.

Liquid-Liquid Particle Concentrator Performance Improved to 90%. Ongoing research at Alburtylab has pursued the concentration of micron-sized particles from a collection fluid into a smaller volume for detection. This volume reduction results in a concentration increase of from 40X to 65X when used to concentrate a 10 mL sample down to 100 uL. See the R&D page for more details.

PITT-3 type Dry Powder Acoustic Aerosol Generators are now available from AlburtyLab. Our design using VNE Stainless components and a built-in amplifier allows you to buy a versatile, well defined off-the-shelf instrument. We can also design, build, and test a custom unit to fit your needs. Please see our new PITT-3 page to find out more!

Biosims Patent Awarded 2/20/07: US Patent Number 7,179,596 for a Biological Particulate Matter Analogue was awarded to Page, Brown, Alburty, and Huebner, assigned to Sceptor Industries, Inc. This invention allows the safe performance validation testing of aerosol collection systems, and has been commercialized by Sceptor: link

COSMOS Computational Fluid Dynamics software, from SolidWorks, Inc., was added to our armamentarium just at the New Year. See our new CFD webpage to find out more!

Alburtylab sponsors Drexel Holidays Celebration

Alburtylab donated a custom-bound drawing notebook, pen, and calculator to the Drexel Lions Club for their holiday prize drawing. The prize drawing was held on Saturday, December 9 at 10:00 A.M. Prizes were donated by the Main Street Merchants and Businesses. The weather was warm, and the sunny day was welcome.

Also in the news: Our new TSI small-scale powder disperser arrived this week. We set it up and tested it in the aerosol chamber with Talc and Celite, quickly achieving aerosol concentrations over 0.3 mg/m^3 (measured using the TSI 3321 aerodynamic pariticle sizer). Up to 4 mg/m^3 can reportedly be achieved with this new instrument, which aerosolizes dry powders and finely divided solids of many types!

AlburtyLab welcomes 8th associate to our staff.

Alburtylab becomes distributor for VNE Stainless, Inc. Stainless steel tubing, fittings, and accessories for aerosol service.

AlburtyLab presents results of Earth Boundary Sublayer Research at 2006 AAAR International Symposium.

Aerodynamic Particle Sizer integrated into Wind Tunnel monitoring system.

TSI Aerodynamic Particle Sizer Arrives

AlburtyLab grows to 7 Associates on our technical staff.