Malcom Interactive Suite 2008

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Visualise, analyse and manage your gas chromatography data with a degree of accuracy and efficiency never attained until now.

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What’s the big idea? Manage all your gas chromatography data within a single graphical environment. ©

Malcom Interactive Suite is designed for the visualisation and interpretation of gas chromatography data acquired from various manufacturers and systems, such as mono-channel data (GC-FID) or multi-channel data (GC-MS, GCAED). You can display what you want, how you want and perform high level post-processing of your chromatographic data in one single program.

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Products and solutions. ©

Introducing the Malcom Interactive Suite. ©

Malcom Interactive Suite provides a comprehensive range of high-level capability for managing all your analytical data. ©

Malcom is designed for visualisation and interpretation of all types of chromatography data. It is a complete gas chromatography analysis software package dedicated to the petroleum industry and yet is open to new perspectives in solving geochemistry and engineering problems. You have the choice of 3 products to suit your needs. For more information on our packages contact [email protected]

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GC & GC-MS Platform module

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Malcom Platform

• Visualisation • Indexation • Normalisation • Data editor

• Integration • Chain process • Python editor*

Malcom GC & GC-MS Premium Full suite of modules that will give you the most advanced technological tools for chromatographic data analysis

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Application modules

Deconvolution Identification

Statistics

Mixture Resolution

Future modules*

Calibration

Library

*Will be available in 2009

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Malcom encompasses 4 main modules (shown in graphic next page). Collectively, the subjects cover the gamut of data analysis and process engineering. ©

Malcom has been specifically developed to manage such complex fluids as crude oils but can also be used in many other engineering domains. Its powerful dynamic database concept gives its flexibility to be multi-industrial and it can greatly enhance your chromatographic studies whatever your specific industry may be.

Petroleum domains:

General domains:

• Organic geochemistry • Assessment of reservoir connectivity • Allocation of commingled production • PVT studies • Refinery output quality control

• Perfumes and fragrances • Food and agrochemicals • Pharmaceuticals • Environmental studies • Doping tests (sports) ... and many others

Gas Chromatography Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

Mixture Resolution

Deconvolution

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Platform GC/GCMS

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Identification

Statistics

Identification

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Malcom GC & GC-MS Platform. A simple platform for all your GC & GC-MS data

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Malcom is an innovative and intuitive software program that has the ability to visualise, analyse and manage your gas chromatography data with an efficiency never attained until now. Make the most of your chromatography data with minimal effort. ©

Malcom Platform will allow you to perform all the standard manipulations of your GC & GC-MS data with a high degree of accuracy.

Platform modules. • Visualisation • Indexation • Normalisation • Data editor • Integration • Chain process • Python editor TM

Integration on GC data and its associated spreadsheet

Superimposed visualisation of GC-MS data and one associated spectral extraction

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Visualisation There is an enormous range of customisable and interactive viewers that you can use to look at your data. All plots can be displayed with your own preferences.

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Malcom can be installed on all Windows operating systems (98, 2000, NT, XP, Vista), is compatible with most standard GC & GC-MS data file formats on the market and can also be customised for specific user-formats.

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Indexation/Normalisation Indexation A multi-analysis management tool has been included in Malcom to perform an easy and automatic comparison of chromatograms. The indexation proceeds as a “blind” identification by detecting the peaks in common in all the chromatograms of a project, allowing a direct and straightforward similitude evaluation of your analyses. ©

Normalisation Malcom automatically calculates the peak heights ratio matrix in a single click, leading to a “normalisation” of your data in order to overcome relative abundance differences between samples. ©

Simultaneous treatments of chromatograms with Kovats indices

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Data editor Rapid and effective organisation of data is paramount. All data analysis and interpretation results are saved into dedicated spreadsheet-type editors. An easy access to data is achieved using a concise thumbnail system.

It is also possible to perform mathematical operations and statistical evaluations directly from the menu of the data editor. ©

Malcom is fully compliant with Excel ; import or export of data can be achieved in a single click. TM

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Integration Integration is one of the most important steps in data analysis and consists in determining the area, as well as other measurements on chromatographic peaks (height, retention time, etc.). The Malcom integration tool produces the most accurate results with an improved peak detection capability through proprietary algorithms.

All modifications can be performed directly on the graphs with the mouse (valley positioning, baseline, peak addition and deletion, etc).

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Full user control of the integration with real-time updates of your plots

Just select any graphical element and place it wherever you want

Integrated chromatogram

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Chain process/Python editor Automated signal processing is useful to manage large quantities of data repeatedly. Preprogrammed modules and Python language have been harnessed to work inside Malcom . It is incredibly powerful, yet very simple. TM

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Chain process Automate repetitive tasks easily by building “chains” of linked processes without any need for complex macro language or specialised IT knowledge. A few mouse clicks replace hours of manual treatments.

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Python The Python editor* will allow you to develop personalised blocks to be integrated into the chain process module. TM

Chain process for OBM subtraction on typical paraffin Extracted Ion Chromatogram effecting several samples at the same time

*Available in 2009

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Deconvolution.

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The deconvolution module is an innovative functionality that provides quantitative results with a high level of accuracy. Its advantages are particularly suitable for petroleum fluid chromatograms that show stronglycoeluted compounds.

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This innovative tool separates the contribution of each component as if it were alone in the mixture, to get precise, quantitative results on strongly coeluted cuts.

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Malcom provides the most likely results, but the user can still perform modifications directly on the graphs.

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Deconvolution of GC-FID chromatogram

Multi channel For GC-MS data, the deconvolution module gives access to the pure mass spectrum of each compound as well as deconvoluted Extracted Ion Chromatograms.

Deconvolution of GC-MS chromatogram and extraction of pure mass spectra

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Identification.

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Without Malcom , the identification of hydrocarbons in petroleum fluids using gas chromatography is particularly tedious and time consuming since the number of compounds is very high.

With the identification module, hundreds of compounds can be automatically, accurately and rapidly identified on GC & GC-MS analyses.

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Single channel • A dynamic and shared database • Sharing of cumulative information will allow you to has been incorporated in this save time and improve the module, enabling the ready relevance of your analysis. saving of new compounds, which are then available for future analysis.

• On GC analyses, the identification module is retention time tolerant. • The traceability of every identified compound is easily available via the dynamic database.

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Automated identification coupled with integration on a GC-FID data

Multi channel* In addition to single channel features, the identification module is able to recognise the compounds from their mass spectra. For compounds which have similar

Calibration* mass spectra, the multi channel identification module can also rely on the retention time characteristics to ensure their seperate identities.

The response of the detector coupled with the gas chromotography column depends on the nature of the compounds. This problem is especially critical for GC-MS data. To transform the area of each detected compound

to a quantitative amount, the dynamic database stores the response factors of each identified compound. All the facilities to determine the response factors are also available

Automated identification coupled with deconvolution on GC-FID data *Multi-channel and calibration will be available in 2009

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Statistics.

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Solve engineering process problems id Interpret your results

Classification tools

Statistical tools provide valuable answers for engineering purposes, such as reservoir connectivity assessment or organic geochemistry studies.

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Factor analysis

Hierarchical clustering: Kohonen maps: Fuzzy logic classification: • finds similarities between • orders and clusters • gives the probability for samples your samples in a 2D individuals to be grouped space according to their together, given the number • groups samples together characteristics of groups to be used • displays results as dendrogram

Principal component analysis (PCA): • useful tool to summarise data, since it separates the dominating features in the dataset

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Fuzzy logic report editor

Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) dendrogram to visually identify groups of similiar analyses

Visualisation facilities Several plots are available to display results of statistical analyses and contribute in facilitating interpretation of similarity analysis between fluids.

Principal Component Analysis: quantitative analysis of correlations between several fluids

Indexed Kohonen map: unsupervised neural network to classify different fluids and quantify the associated probability of grouping

Comparisons of analyses • Sammon projections • Star-plots • Spectral plots

• Provides a universal measure of similarity between crude oil chromatograms with a complete management of uncertainties

• Separates the contribution of experimental errors from the real compositional differences

Distribution method

Histograms showing the distribution of the differences between several pairs of samples

Star-plot displaying a pattern for each sample visualised on a selection of peak heights ratios Sammon projections showing the arrangement of several samples in a 2D space

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Measurements of similarities between various pairs of samples

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Mixture Resolution.

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The interpretation of oil GC fingerprints allows you to monitor the trends of production in various oil fields and to estimate the allocation of production to individual layers in commingled wells.

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The mixture resolution is based on the exact equations corresponding to the physics of the mixtures and on rigorous propagation of the uncertainties. It provides the contribution of different oils in an unknown mixture on the basis of chromatograms of each sample.

Scheme of Commingled wells

The Mixture resolution can be used for binary mixtures and ternary mixtures, with appropriate displays. It can also provide numerical results for mixtures including more

than three oils. The confidence intervals about the results are systematically included.

Binary diagram with confidence interval

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Ternary diagram with confidence interval

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Consulting and sales [email protected]

Online (WebEx ) Used by Techsia support engineers to have real-time communication with the users online in conference

Training sessions are provided by our team to help you become an expert with the software. Courses are available and adaptable to suit your specific needs.

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