Remspec’s fiber-optic probes are already established as industry leaders in performance and versatility with interchangeable sampling heads for ATR, transmission, reflectance, grazing-angle reflectance, and high-pressure high-temperature reaction monitoring. In the ReactionView(tm) system, this capability is combined with a ruggedly constructed, compact FTIR module that weighs about 35 lbs, has an Ethernet interface and its own IP address. The whole system is controlled from a laptop computer (desktop computers are available, too) equipped with VizIR(TM), our full-featured data-collection and post-processing software. The ReactionView(TM) makes IR reaction monitoring a truly portable technology.

The VERAX™ reaction monitoring system turns Raman spectroscopy into a truly in-situ technique, allowing you to carry out Raman analysis in real time as a reaction evolves. The VERAX™ spectrometer has a range of 250–1940 cm-1, uses a 785 nm diode laser and a TE-cooled CCD array detector, and comes with a fiber-optic probe from the RamanProbe™ range. You can use the VERAX™ inside a conventional lab-scale reaction vessel or your choice of ALR (Automated Laboratory Reactor) to generate real-time data on the reactions and chemical changes that are taking place - all without perturbing the process to remove samples. Reactor modifications are kept to a minimum - often avoided completely - since RamanProbes™ are compact enough to fit into many existing reactor ports and can collect data through the walls of glass reactors.

The detection and measurement of surface contamination and coatings is important in a number of different industries. Metal parts need to be free of cutting oils before painting -- lubrication coatings must be uniform -- the cleanliness of pharmaceutical reactors must be validated before returning them to use. The patented Remspec SpotView(TM) system, with a grazing angle probe, provides a way to measure the thickness of very thin coatings down to the scale of a few tens of Angstroms or a few micrograms per square centimeter. SpotView(TM) is ideal for studying surface contamination and verifying the cleanliness of large metal objects such as pharmaceutical batch reactors. A high-sensitivity MCT detector (with a Stirling cycle cooler) is mounted on the head. With very high sensitivity and the flexibility of a long cable, the Remspec room-temperature grazing angle probe marks a major step forward in spectroscopic thin film analysis and cleaning validation.

If you already own an FTIR spectrometer, you may want to add fiber-optic capability without purchasing a whole new system. The Remspec mid-IR fiber-optic probe can be coupled to most FTIR spectrometers, provided that a collimated beam output port and an external detector plug are available. We have systems working and in active use on Bio-Rad, Bomem, Bruker, Midac, and Thermo Nicolet benches. The coupling is straightforward for Analect (ie Orbital, Hamilton Sundstrand, etc, etc.) and most Perkin-Elmer systems (Eg Spectrum One).