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working environment using proper gas and chemical detection devices.
Air Pollutants and Detection Devices
Normal air, which contains nitrogen at 78 percent, oxygen at 21 percent, and traces of CO2, argon, etc., can be contaminated by various other pollutants. These other pol- lutants can broadly be classified as particu- late matter present as aerosols and gaseous pollutants. For the detection of these aero- sols and gaseous pollutants, various types of detection devices are necessary.
Dr. R. C. Naik is the Chairman & Technical Director of Uniphos Envirotronic Pvt. Ltd. (A Group Company of UPL limited.) He has more than 58 years of research experience in the field of solid state spectroscopy and in- strumentation. For more than 32 years, he was in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Government of India, heading a solid state spectroscopy group. His expertise and expe- rience includes Laser excited and X-ray ex- cited optical fluorescence spectroscopy and spectroscopic instrumentation. He worked for two years at Institute of Nuclear Physics (IPN), Orsey, France, as a visiting professor.
Dr. Naik joined UPL Ltd in 1992 and made a proposal to indigenously develop phosphine detection devices required by the company. Since then, he has been responsible for implementing the program by setting up the laboratory, research facilities, and hir- ing and training the technical manpower. Under his technical inputs and guidance the lab has grown over the years into one of the best R&D and instrument production centres with a wide range of instruments. The diverse research programs he initiated and guided includes development of sensors, water and oil quality instruments, chemiluminescence- and fluorescence-based instruments for gas analysis, and non-dispersive spectroscopic instruments for analytical applications.
Since the formation of UEPL in 2010, he has been the chairman and technical direc- tor of the company overlooking its overall op- erations—R&D, production, and marketing. He has written more than 100 research pa- pers and articles; holds jointly many patents; and was the joint winner of the Technology Day Invention Award 2001 from DSIR and WIPO international award for the best re- search of the year 2002 from World Intellec- tual Property Organization, Switzerland.
For further detail of detector tubes and electronic instruments, contact Uniphos Envirotronic Inc., A UPL Group Company, 832-956-0800/cell 832-472-0567, brent. yaschuk@uniphos-envirotronic.com, www.uniphosamericas.com. Uniphos Envi- rotronic Pvt. Ltd., (A UPL Ltd. group com- pany), www.uniphos-she.com, www.kwik- draw.in, P.O. Nahuli, Tal. Umbergaon, Dist. Valsad, Gujarat - 396108, INDIA, mobile +91-9909994839.
The company has developed a full range of gas detection devices covering both chemi-
cal detector tubes and electronic instruments for the measurement of gaseous pollutants, having recently acquired the MSA Germany gas detector tube business and now these tubes are marketed under the brand name of Uniphos Kwik-Draw tubes. Apart from Uni- phos detector tubes and Kwik-Draw tubes, it has electronic instruments for use in vessel entry, sewer entry, confined space monitor- ing, etc. Uniphos instruments are also avail- able for combustible gas detection in the petrochemical industry, LPG bottling plants, and in other chemical industries.
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