TOOL AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF A PHOTOLUMINESENCE BASED ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENT

摘要

A reference vessel and a method of validating operational integrity of an analytical instrument using the reference vessel. The reference vessel has certain design features that render it particularly suited for interrogation by a specific analytical instrument, and is equipped with a surrogate probe that generates a perceptible signal of known value when interrogated by that instrument regardless of the actual value of the variable in communication with the surrogate probe.