Chemical Focus
Understanding materials an important factor in process success
For chemical companies to be able to store, move and process their materials effectively, an understanding of each material’s particle characteristics is essential.
Damit Chemieunternehmen ihre Werkstoffe effizient lagern, transportieren und verarbeiten können, sind Kenntnisse der Partikeleigenschaften aller Werkstoffe unerlässlich.
Afin que les entreprises chimiques puissent entreposer, déplacer et traiter les matériaux efficacement, la compréhension des caractéristiques des particules qui composent chacun des matériaux utilisés est essentielle.
incorporating a magnetic sector analyser designed for continuous operation in process development laboratories. The product – the Thermo Scientific
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Prima BT bench top mass spectrometer – employs powerful scanning magnetic- sector technology. The system is designed to deliver superior analytical performance with high reliability and minimal maintenance requirements. The instrument has a 16-port rapid multi-stream sampler and a six-port automatic calibration manifold, making it one of the most precise, stable and accurate analysers available in its class. This new benchtop model sets the same high standard for online gas analysis as the original floor model, the Thermo Scientific Prima PRO process mass spectrometer, but with an attractive smaller footprint to serve a wider range of researchers. “The Prima BT will be the first affordable mass spectrometer configured for lab-based
new benchtop mass spectrometer is designed to offer process lab researchers, managers and engineers fast and precise gas analysis by
process development. As such, we’ve designed it to contribute to novel process development that will ultimately extend to industrial scale,” said Bob Muscat, vice president, environmental and process monitoring, Thermo Fisher Scientific. “By offering the only scanning magnetic-sector gas analyser in this market, Thermo Fisher Scientific has evolved the marketplace, enabling online analysis to replace off-line assays in helping to fill in the gaps of process understanding.” Intended specifically for process
development labs in need of a flexible gas analyser, the Prima BT is designed to offer customers reliable multi-stream performance. The high-precision composition measurements mean fast, robust analysis that can be reliably multiplexed. Additionally, Thermo Fisher anticipates
that the Prima BT will provide complete analysis of multiple, complex gas streams for the purpose of tracking dynamic process variables. The company believes that the speed of measurement combined with precise analysis should enable a faster process understanding and, in turn, a shorter development cycle. Additional performance specifications
include: simple maintenance – as little as 15 minutes to change inexpensive face seal; fast response – a zero-dead-volume design; tight temperature control for constant sample viscosity; and easy clean design. Also new is the ASAP 2460 surface area
Fig. 1. Surface zeta potential can be measured quickly and easily using the zeta potential planar cell for the Zetasizer Nano particle characterisation system.
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and porosimetry analyser from Micromeritics. This incorporates a novel expandable system designed for upgradeable high-performance and high sample throughput. This versatile surface characterisation instrument can be configured as a two-, four-, or six-station bench top system depending on the user’s throughput needs. The base ASAP 2460 is a two-port master control unit. For additional throughput, two-port
auxiliary units can be connected to the master unit expanding the system to either a four- port or six-port analyser. The instrument also
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