The Vacuum Distillation System was developed as an alternate technique for the extraction of analytes (primarily volatile organic compounds) from difficult-to-analyze samples (matrices) such as fish tissue, oil and sediment. Vacuum Distillation is comparable to the traditional purge and trap method of extraction, but it has the advantage of being much simpler.

The non-exclusive license agreement is with Cincinnati Analytical Instruments. The company president, Dr. Prabhakar P. Rao, announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership arrangement with Specialty Fitting & Assembly, Inc., a minority-owned small business located in Harrison, OH, to manufacture the instrument. Cincinnati Analytical Instruments plans to conduct all the sales, marketing, research and development, and service in house.

The inventor of the technology, Michael Hiatt, works in the EPA-Environmental Chemistry Branch of the Environmental Sciences Division located in Las Vegas, NV. He has been working on this technology for over ten years and has received two patents for different aspects of the technology. Both patents were included under this license agreement.

Dr. Rao intends to have an instrument on display this March at the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (PittCon). He will be sharing booth number 2577 with Specialty Fitting & Assembly, Inc.

Contact: Eric Koglin at (702) 798-2432