1 Federal Resources, Stevensville, MD, USA.
2 University of New Haven, West Haven, CT, USA.
Appl Spectrosc. 2019 Aug;73(8):841-858. doi: 10.1177/0003702819849499. Epub 2019 May 31.
The use of portable gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is an important capability that has been available commercially for almost 25 years. These systems have been used within a variety of different industries, including their extensive use by environmental scientists for the analysis of hazardous air pollutants. Recently, these systems were deployed to conventional military forces for use in theater to detect and identify toxic chemicals including chemical warfare agents (CWAs). The challenges of deploying such complex analytical instruments to these military users are unique. Among other things, these organizations have considerable and variable mission strains, complex and difficult logistics and coordination needs, and variability in user backgrounds. This review outlines the value portable GC-MS systems offer to these warfighters in theater, discusses some important aspects of the design of portable systems that makes their deployment to this type of end user possible, and proposes methods that can be used to overcome challenges to successful deployment of portable GC-MS to non-scientists working within hostile environments.
便携式气相色谱-质谱联用仪（GC-MS）的使用是一项重要的能力，已经商业化应用近 25 年了。这些系统已在多种不同行业中得到应用，包括环境科学家在分析危险空气污染物方面的广泛应用。最近，这些系统已被部署到常规军事部队，用于在战区探测和识别有毒化学物质，包括化学战剂（CWA）。向这些军事用户部署如此复杂的分析仪器具有独特的挑战。除其他外，这些组织的任务压力相当大且多变，后勤和协调需求复杂且困难，用户背景也各不相同。本文综述了便携式 GC-MS 系统为战区作战人员带来的价值，讨论了便携式系统设计的一些重要方面，这些方面使得将其部署到这类终端用户成为可能，并提出了一些方法，可以克服在敌对环境中为非科学家成功部署便携式 GC-MS 所面临的挑战。
