THE STORY: People, philosophically, always want to “clear the air.” Warren-based Ambilabs LLC is producing products to help make that possible. The company specializes in making air-quality instruments designed to provide accurate measurements of particle concentrations in the air. Among those products is the Two Wavelength Integrating Nephelometer.
› The Two Wavelength Integrating Nephelometer, which is known as 2-WIN and came onto the market in 2016, measures visibility and pollution haze. It also can be used to help identify pollutant types and emissions sources.
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› The nephelometer is made with an active heating system, which is controlled based on relative humidity levels and warms the sample air and sample cell to keep the relative humidity below a set point to avoid particle growth with moisture.
› Ambilabs sold approximately 20 nephelometers over the past year, with each system costing $20,000. It takes between three and four engineers between four and eight weeks to make each nephelometer from scratch.
› The U.S. military, mining industry, health care industry, government agencies, environmental organizations, universities and research institutions use Ambilabs’ nephelometers.
› The nephelometers could also become useful in the fight against COVID-19. The 2-WIN technology has the potential to help monitor bioaerosols and Ambilabs is applying to federal government agencies to secure funding for further research and development.
COVID-PROOF: Production of the nephelometer has been uninterrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
