Agile Software Development at Scale

A column of particulate adsorbent is located within a longitudinally extending stainless steel tube. The pollutant gas to be monitored reaches the adsorbent by molecular diffusion after passing through a diffusion gauze at the diffusion end of the tube, a stagnant diffusion zone and a partition gauze forming one longitudinal boundary of the column. In one embodiment the diffusion gauze is removably mounted in a diffusion cap that may be slid over the tube; in another, the diffusion gauze and the partition gauze are mounted in a unit which in manufacture is fitted and permanently fixed within the tube. The invention establishes that the repeatability problem in molecular diffusion personal monitors lies in the hitherto unsuspected criticality of the stagnant diffusion zone parameters and provides a general solution enabling a good compromise between repeatability and sensitivity without the need for unduly close manufacturing tolerances.