Fully dedicated department to provide quick turnaround for all Perma Pure products

Toms River, NJ (July 17, 2008) – Leading gas conditioning products manufacturer Perma Pure now offers in-house and onsite warranty repair, rework and troubleshooting through its new service department.  The service is offered for all products manufactured by Perma Pure, including the Baldwin cooler line and GASS product family.

The new department consists of qualified, factory trained technical staff who work independently of the production team, ensuring quick turnaround on customers’ jobs.  All repairs are performed using high quality OEM parts, not generic substitutes, and returned with a written inspection report summarizing the work completed.  Service can be done in-house or onsite service at customers’ premises. A call center for troubleshooting is also offered as part of the service.

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Proprietary technology dries or humidifies medical gas and breath sample streams
Toms River, NJ (July 9, 2008) – The latest technology from Perma Pure, designed to achieve moisture balance in medical applications, will be on display at MEDTEC China 2008, September 9-11, 2008, in Shanghai, China .  The ME™-Series Moisture Exchangers for breath sample dryers, filters and sample lines use proprietary Nafion technology to dry or humidify medical gas and breath sample streams, without altering gas composition and with no utility requirements. 

Moisture removal is a critical step prior to analysis in anesthesia monitoring, neonatal monitoring, asthma and respiratory care, metabolic testing, and capnography.  Excess water can block sample lines, damage analyzers and reduce the accuracy of analysis.  In supplemental oxygen systems, extremely dry breathing gases can cause patient discomfort. 

ME-Series dryers remove only water vapor from the sample, without removing any of the gases to be analyzed.  The antibacterial membrane tubing does not require power input for operation and there are no moving parts to fail. 

In either drying or humidifying applications, the ME-Series products seek equilibrium with room humidity, transferring water vapor into or out of the tubing in a stable, self-regenerating cycle.  Very low dead volume in the tubing eliminates drops in pressure.  With levels of humidification only reaching ambient conditions, there is no threat of rainout in the sample lines.  Unlike alternative technologies such as traps and filters, ME-Series products do not require regular monitoring and replacement. 

For more information on the company’s complete line of gas conditioning products, visit Perma Pure’s at MEDTEC China, booth 620.

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FC-Series ideal humidification method for fuel cells replacing industrial lead acid batteries
Toms River, NJ (July 1, 2008) – Increased productivity, zero emissions and reduced costs are just a few of the reasons small vehicle manufacturers are looking at fuel cells as an alternative to industrial lead acid batteries.  FC-Series humidifiers from Perma Pure provide the efficient water management critical to the operation of these Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells.  The compact, lightweight units are available in a range of sizes suitable to virtually any transportation application, from wheelchairs and motorbikes to forklifts and trains.

In PEM fuel cells, where incoming gas must be humid, FC-Series humidifiers provide durable, self-contained humidification.  The humidifiers recover water from the fuel cell exhaust and transfer it into the incoming gases by permeation through the walls of Nafion® tubing, a proprietary technology available only from Perma Pure under license from the polymer manufacturer, DuPont.  With no moving parts, there is no parasitic power load on the stack, nor are there any parts that can wear, fail or leak.  The humidifiers provide over 10,000 continuous hours of operation in Class 1 and Class 3 trucks. 

The highly durable devices are shock proof to withstand the vibrations and hard starts and stops inherent in forklift and other vehicle operation.  Additionally, the humidifiers are not damaged by wide swings in temperature, permitting operation in extreme environments such as freezer warehouses.  The lightweight devices are available in a range of models which may be used alone or in parallel to accommodate any application size. 

FC-Series humidifiers are self-limiting and require no controls.  Selective permeation ensures that there is no crossover contamination between the exhaust and incoming gases.  In addition to moisture exchange, Perma Pure’s humidifiers simultaneously function as heat exchangers, recovering waste heat as well as water from the exhaust.

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