Implementing In Situ Process FTIR in a Plant Environment

Recently, there has been an increase in the implementation of in situ process FTIR in kilo labs, full scale plants producing APIs and other high value chemicals, as well as in production scale bioreactors for monitoring fermentations and cell cultures. Monitoring these processes in real time enables the rapid determination of reaction initiation, progression and endpoint. Since FTIR is a molecular measurement technique, individual reaction species can be detected and monitored independently providing engineers with reaction specific information to ensure that processes are maintained within compliance. All of this can be done without the need to take samples for offline analysis using a process FTIR developed specifically for in situ monitoring in a hazardous environment.