Gas Monitoring procedure [Takara N2]

1.- Once arrived to the place, locate the manometer closest to the ground under the big
red valve, as the picture N1.

Picture N1
2.- At the moment of arriving at the place, the person in charge of Takara N2 have to be
there too, as he is going to take out the manometer from its position.
3.- On the same outlet where the manometer was removed, the nipple has to be
inserted, with the plastic transparent hose, tightened with 2 zip ties, as the picture N2.
 Picture N2
4.- Prepare the bucket with water at ambient temperature from the blue hose that is
provided by the place, and fill the bucket with water, meanwhile, connect the inlet
(valve side) of the metal tube coil to the previous connected transparent plastic hose,
and tight with 2 zip ties. And for the outside of the metal tube coil, connect the second
plastic hose. See picture N3.
 Picture N3
5.- Open the 2 valves under the outlet of the geothermal source to the position indicated
on the pictures N4 and N5.

Picture N4 Picture N5
6.- After have all connected and the valves open, do not fill the sample bottles right
away, first let some water let out from the hose for some minutes in order to clean the
interior of the hoses and for testing.
7.- Once finished the step N6 proceed to clean the 3 bottles and their lids, every bottle
has to be cleaned with the same water that the bottle is going to be filled, this procedure
has to be committed 3 times for each bottle.
8.- Once cleaned all the bottles proceed to fill the bottles to the bottom in a way that
there are no bubbles inside the bottles.
9.- Next, fill the glass bottles that have inside NaH (transparent liquid), for this before
filling those bottles, there is need to split water from the hose on the glass pipe on the
neck of the bottles in order to remove the oxygen from it and generate vacuum. Then
connect the transparent hose to the bottle on the glass pipe and start to open the blue
valve until the bubbles start enter to the bottle, then fill on this way shaking the bottle
until there is no possible to see more bubbles entering to the bottle, this mean that the
NaH can not react anymore with the inlet water. This procedure have to be made with
the bottle on an inverted position, this means that the valve of the bottle is facing the
ground. See picture N6.

Picture N6
10.- After finished to fill the 3 glass bottles, dismantle everything and put all in order
again.
11.- Open the 250-cc bottle and remove a little of water, then with the pipette insert
2.5ml of HNO3 to this bottle (previous to do this, the pipette have to be cleaned from
inside with pure water).
12. Write on every bottle the date, place (Takara N2), the bottle specification, and then
seal the lid with tape, as the pictures N7, N8 and N9.

Picture N7 Picture N8

Picture N9