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KIST Appointed as a Testing Agency for Urea Solution (December 28, 2021)
- Date : 2022-03-15
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KIST Appointed as a Testing Agency for Urea Solution
On December 8, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST; President: Dr. Seok-Jin Yoon) was designated by the National Institute of Environmental Research as a manufacturing standards compliance inspection agency for urea solution (an automobile catalyst).
KIST is now the fifth such domestic inspection
institution, alongside the National Institute of Environmental Research, Korea
Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority, Korea Testing & Research
Institute, and Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology. KIST's Advanced
Analysis Center will begin performing urea solution inspections using its inspection
capabilities and analyzing its infrastructure for such duties on December 27.
While the Advanced Analysis Center already possessed the element
analyzer and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer necessary
for urea solution inspections, it quickly secured additional analysis
infrastructure, including densitometers, refractors, and autotitrators.
Moreover, KIST took part in various training and test result reliability
programs in order to secure the necessary experts and systems to perform high-quality
examinations.
KIST President Dr. Yoon stated, “Unlike other urea
solution inspection agencies, KIST did not have the existing infrastructure for
automobile catalyst inspections, but it quickly secured the facilities and human
resources to provide support to the general public. We will continue to take
the lead as a designated urea solution inspection agency by rapidly inspecting both
newly manufactured and imported urea solutions.”
The Advanced Analysis Center at KIST is a specialized institution that provides customized analysis support and equipment sharing services to domestic and international industry-academia-research institute members by organizing analysis infrastructures for high-end science and technology fields to promote the development of sophisticated analysis technologies. During the 2020 COVID-19 mask crisis, the Advanced Analysis Center conducted harmfulness sample tests.