Dr. Don Pachuta founded Airborne Labs International, Inc. in 2000 and has grown the company to be a world-recognized, independent commercial laboratory, that is ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accredited and approved by major international bottlers.

 

Dr. Pachuta is an industry-recognized leader with over 30 years of experience in gas analysis (CO₂, air, fuel, medical, specialty, high purity gas applications) and developed many of the methods used for CO₂ sampling and testing. He was also part of the discussions of ISBT’s Quality Guidelines for Bulk CO₂ (2001 & 2010), CO₂ Fountain Quality Guidelines (2010) and Beverage Grade N₂ Guidelines (2015).

 

Additionally, Dr. Pachuta is a proven expert in several fields, presenting and contributing to numerous papers for:

• International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT)
• Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry & Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon)
• Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition (EAS)
• Society of Aerospace Engineers International (SAE)
• Compressed Gas Association (CGA)
• Semiconductor Equipment and Material Institute (SEMI)
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
• The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
• The American Chemical Society (ACS)
• CO₂ Fountain Committee (Technical Committee of ISBT)
• Coca-Cola^® World Quality Conferences
• PepsiCo^® World Quality Conferences

As an innovative leader in analytical chemistry, Dr. Pachuta developed the first benzene analyzer for beverage-grade gas applications as well as novel Total Sulfur Content (TSC) Analyzers, Soft Ionization Spectrometers (SIS) and other advanced instruments for gas and synthetic aerospace lubricant analysis.

 

He has also developed several "manifold-friendly" gas detector tubes, ultra-clean sampling equipment for gas testing, non-hazmat gas sampling & shipping, Fountain mini-bulk tank sampling kits, and no-emission, non-hazmat SF₆ sampling systems.

 

 

Mark R. Taylor has over 25 years of experience in designing multi-valved Gas Chromatographic analysis systems for CO₂ Beverage gases, Natural Gas Analysis, and Refinery Gas Analysis applications. He has presented several papers at ASTM, PittCon, Gulf Coast conferences, International Society of Beverage Technologists and has authored LCGC magazine publications. Mark also a participating member of the ASTM D3 committee.

• International Society of Beverage Technologists (ISBT)
  • Beverage Gases Technical Committee
  • CO₂ Fountain Technical Committee
• The American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
  • D3 Committee
• The American Chemical Society (ACS)
• Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon)
• Gulf Coast Conference (GCC)
• National Conference of Weights and Measures
• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

 

 

 

Jeff Wahome (BS in Chemistry) has four years of experience in gas analysis (CO₂, N₂, Ar, He, H_2, SF₆ and Air). Jeff also has over three years of experience in instrument (GC and FTIR) method development and validation, for analytical applications in industrial and beverage gases. Jeff is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).

• The American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ)