APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STORING AND TRANSPORTING DATA RELATED TO VAPOR EMISSIONS AND MEASUREMENTS THEREOF

• US 20060206272A1
• Filed: 10/05/2005
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TMX2 Incorporated
• Original Assignee: TMX2 Incorporated
• Inventors: Miller, Tammy, Miller, Terry
• Granted Patent: US 7,369,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/24
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2001/2285 Details of probe structures
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 27/626 using heat to ionise a gas
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 35/00871 Communications between instruments or with remote terminals

Abstract

The present invention provides apparatus and a methods for collecting, transmitting and storing fugitive gas emission data. An embodiment of the invention collects fugitive gas with a sampling probe and into a emission monitoring device. The device then sends and stores fugitive gas data into a storage medium, such as a wireless data-logging adapter. The wireless-data logging adapter stores the data and wirelessly sends it to a personal digital assistant or other form of redundant memory such as a data logger. In one embodiment, the PDA can initiate commands to retrieve data from the storage medium or operate the emission gas monitoring device.

Claims

1. An apparatus for communicating and storing emissions data comprising:

(a) a sampling probe,

(b) a transport conduit having a first and second end, the first end of the conduit connected to the sampling probe;

(c) an emissions measuring device connected to the second end of the transport conduit,

(e) a storage medium operably connected to the emission measuring device for transmitting a signal representing data, and

(f) a personal digital assistant wirelessly connected to the storage medium for transmitting a signal representing data.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said sampling probe is removably coupled to said transport conduit.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 and 2 further comprising a gas delivery system which introduces flowable emission gas into said emissions measuring device through said transport conduit to convey said gas from said sampling probe.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a storage medium electronically coupled to said emissions measuring device which introduces electronic data into said storage medium through a serial data link from said measuring device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said emissions measuring device further comprises a wireless server transceiver, a serial data link and a microprocessor.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 and 4 wherein said data-logger device further comprises a wireless client transceiver, a serial data link and microprocessor.

7. The apparatus of claims 1, 4, and 5 further comprising a system in which the emissions measuring device determines the level of fugitive gas emissions, converts said level to a binary number then introduces said binary number into said wireless server transceiver from said wireless client transceiver.

8. The apparatus of claim 6 further comprising a storage medium electronically coupled to said data-logger device wherein said level of fugitive gas emissions is redundantly stored therein.