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Commissioning
Procedure
6-2
Prima PRO & Sentinel PRO Mass Spectrometers User Guide
3. Startup
The instrument must have been in position, upright and stationary
for at least 24 hours before startup.
The instrument will be powered up. A number of tests will be
carried out to verify that the instrument is working correctly.
These tests are the same for all instruments, regardless of
application.
4. Application Configuration
The software database will be configured for the application and
the specific installation. This includes:
a. Setting up the analysis method for the gases involved in
process mixture(s).
b. Configuring the sample streams.
c. Setting up the calibration method(s).
5. Application Verification
The above configuration will be functionally tested by running a
full calibration, followed by analysis of process gas mixtures.
Performance testing will be carried out by analyzing a calibration
gas (typically the "mixed gas", which will generally be similar to
the process gas in composition) over a period of time. Other
standard gas mixtures may also be used if they fall within the
concentration limits defined in the performance specification. In
some cases, achieving a particular performance during testing on
a specific mixture or mixtures will be part of an agreed
acceptance criterion.
6. Communications and I/O (where applicable)
Communications will be configured and tested. Wherever
possible, initial testing will be to a PC running a test program
appropriate for the protocol in question (e.g. the installation
engineer's laptop PC or the GasWorks PC). Subsequently, testing
of the full link to the DCS will take place.
Suitably qualified personnel must be available to check the
DCS end of the link.
Any discrete I/O will also be configured and tested as above.
Suitably qualified personnel must be available to check the
DCS end of the link.
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