ORIGINAL: Scent-Lok G.Designer
During the first ten minutes or so of a drying cycle with activated carbon in it, the activated carbon is adsorbing scent from the dryer. After this time the airflow and heat reach a point to where this scent being exhumed and exhausted out the vent.
Do you have a link to the study you are quoting this from?
These are industries that are completely independent of ours and their testing data shows that activated carbon can adsorb odor and molecules.
I have no doubts of the ability of carbon to absorb...........my questions involve it's ability to keep doing it for long periods of time after being "used up"
The testing data shown in the graph is funded by us at a third party laboratory. We cannot show you that actual data as there is confidential information about other technologies in it, even other techologies in this very industry; but showing that data could hurt our partnerships in the long run. I am checking with our lawers to see if I can post the lab, as their may be confidentiality issues, don't count on it though.
Funded by you.........and we can't see the results. Call me skeptical but that isn't very convincing to me. I'm not saying that those aren't really the results...........but basically your above response means I just have to take your word for it.
However our tests were performed using the Headspace GCMS system to assay odorous compounds after equilibration with various textile substrates. We used an Agilent 6890A gas Chromatograph equipped with an Agilent 5973 Mass Selective Detector, a Leap Technologies Combi Pal Autosampler and a Phenomenex 30m x .53 mm ZB-5, um film column. A 22 mL headspace vials with Teflon-sealed septa. A human scent cocktail containing a mixture of trimethylamine, dimethyl sulfide, isobutyraldehyde, ethanol, isovaleric acid, and limonene.
The equipment list doesn't really help answer anything...........the details of how the "study" was done would be much more helpful
This kind beats non-regenerated suits in a field and boxes huh?
I don't know........you haven't told me anything about your study yet. You just listed some chem lab equipment.
Third point I think I addressed as we pay for some and some are independent, but Oaklahoma State has done a lot of testing on this subject as well as many other labs around the world.
They have done tests on your suits?
Fourth point, the effect you are referring to is not compounded on top of each other. Like a sponge water molecule A,B,C go into a sponge. Wring out Molucule A & B and wipe up more molecules D,E. Wirng out again and molecules C & E are then wrung out leaving now only molecule D. After proper regeneration, 10-15% of total capacity will be filled up, leaving 85-90% to use.
I'm sorry but that doesn't make sense. If a dryer is unable to remove 15% of scent from the carbon during one cycle why would it be able to do it next time?
If you are saying that a carbon suit can be regenerated to 85% efficiency after EVERY dryer cycle then the suits last forever.
Again, please provide a link to the science you are quoting with these claims.
Lastly, the "scientific" study you referred to before has a lot of holes. How old are the suits, how many washes, how were they reactivated, what type of footwear were the subjects wearing, where did they walk before getting into the boxes, did the ATV that took them to the box leave any scent, who lifted the box over the subjects head, were they wearing gloves, what did they touch before they lifetd the boxes. All of these things directly add scent to an area and were not accounted for in the "scientific" test.
The same can be said for all of your claims to this point. Where is the study that shows these suits can be regenerated to 85-90% effectiveness in a dryer?........does that go for every dryer?.......every cycle?.......does the scent go out the vent like you said in every dryer after 10 minutes? Does the lint trap have to be empty? How can anyone know if their suit is regenerated or not?
That is why I asked for the study details..........at least the field test study on the dogs was done by someone that has no interest in the outcome either way and all the parameters were laid out for everyone to see........I'm sure the test wasn't perfect as very few are.........to totally discount it as meaningless and offer nothing but a line graph on your site seems a little unfair to me.