Solving Solvent Challenges
Versaperm’s Vapour Permeability Testing Delivers Breakthroughs Across Key Industries

  
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The role of solvent vapour permeability becomes is rapidly becoming critically important for modern product performance.   Versaperm is setting new benchmarks with its latest generation of high-sensitivity testing equipment. The company's advanced Mass Spectrometry-based vapour permeability system offers unrivalled accuracy, speed and adaptability, transforming how industries measure and manage solvent loss, retention and selectivity.
Understanding how solvents behave when they permeate through a material is vital across a broad range of sectors. Versaperm's latest innovations allow manufacturers and researchers to measure solvent permeability rates with exceptional precision, down to parts per billion in some applications and across virtually any material or compound.

One of the most promising fields for this technology is the dehydration of alcohols, especially in biofuel production, where separating ethanol from water efficiently has remained a long-standing challenge. Traditional distillation struggles near azeotropic points, but Versaperm’s equipment enables fast and reliable measurement of membrane selectivity, helping accelerate the adoption of pervaporation-based solutions that are both greener and more cost-effective.

Meanwhile, in food and beverage manufacturing, Versaperm’s system supports the recovery of flavours and aromas in processes like juice concentration or beer production. Many aroma compounds are volatile and thermally sensitive, which makes membrane-based recovery techniques ideal. By precisely characterising how these compounds permeate different materials, Versaperm helps ensure flavour integrity without resorting to harsh thermal treatments.

Lastly, the company’s solution is also being adopted in the fuel sector, where the removal of water from bioethanol blends is critical to meeting quality standards for engine use. Versaperm’s Mass Spectrometry system gives researchers and producers a robust tool to analyse and optimise the vapour permeability of fuel-grade membranes and barriers, leading to better fuel stability and shelf life.

The Versaperm mass spectrometry platform delivers unmatched sensitivity and real-world insights into how materials behave.  The equipment can quantify the properties of polymers, composites, coated films, barrier layers and even finished components over a wide range of temperatures and pressures.  It can be adapted for research, production and quality control environments. With a commitment to British engineering and global reach, the company continues to lead the field in vapour permeability science.

Additionally, the company offers consultancy and laboratory-based vapour permeability measurements services        

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