CBRNe World Capability Profile: Proengin

PROENGIN Biological and chemical detectors

Proengin has developed biological and chemical warfare agents field detectors using flame spectrophotometry. The well known and world widely used AP2C has proven the capacity of that technology to be the most reliable on the field with the lowest false alarm rate and the simplest ease of use.

The new extended range field handheld chemical detector AP4C

New developments such as the AP4C have extended the capacity of that technology to include chemical warfare agents and Toxic industrial materials in a simultaneous mode. There is no limitation in number of gases detected by the AP4C. All nerve agents, all blister agents and all blood agents can be detected by AP4C within the requirements of response time and sensitivity of NATO recommendations.
Canadian Forces have selected the AP4C to replace their old technology IMS detectors. Their selection was based on the capacity to prove with real live agent that AP4C could meet those standards.

The AP4C has extended the range of chemicals that can be detected by Proengin chemical detectors. All dangerous compounds containing Sulphur, Phosphorus, Arsenic, and/or the chemical liaison can be detected in a simultaneous way.
Of course, as for the AP2C, the AP4C has the capacity to work in very severe environmental conditions ( explosive areas) and the measurements are unaffected by high humidity levels or by presence of other organic chemical compounds such as paint.

The AP4C technology allows the simultaneous detection of an unlimited number of gases and to identify the chemical elements that constitute these chemicals. It is therefore possible to detect impure agents or chemicals manufactured by terrorists that would not fit into traditional libraries of other detectors.
Moreover AP4C will detect without upgrade new agents that will be developed in the future.

The response time is among the shortest on the market but makes the AP4C unique is the recovery time after a positive detection. Where other detectors may take long minutes or hours after a positive detection or pollution by chemicals, AP4C will be ready after some seconds whatever the level of contamination.

The AP4C is therefore the chemical detector that has the highest level of availability of the field.

THE MAB – a new generation of biological field detector

MAB has the unique capacity of detecting and categorizing biological particles with a proven extremely low false alarm rate and the unique capacity to discriminate dangerous or suspicious biological particles such as Anthrax spores from natural background.

Complexity, false alarms, high power consumption are the main reasons why it is difficult to deploy Biological detectors on a battle field.
The MAB has circumvented all those problems by using the same technology as the AP4C.

Highly ruggedized, very simple to use on the field, extremely low power consumption (15W) the MAB has also unique features in terms of biological detection.
No other field detector is able to detect tiny biological particles, to categorize them by chemical composition, to discriminate background particles of the field from suspicious particles and even to differentiate those suspicious particles between them. And all this will run the same way even in a cloud of smoke or in an atmosphere polluted by high level of diesel exhausts.
The very liable MAB has been designed to be mounted on tracked vehicles. It is insensitive to diesel exhausts.

As all Proengin products and thanks to the flame spectrometry technology,

• Running in very severe outside conditions,
• The lowest false alarm rates ( negative and positive)
• Reduced maintenance and high level of availability