Validation of novel configuration of IR spectrometer for industrial gaseous emissions monitoring applications.

PCME是为工业工厂提供颗粒（粉尘）监测仪器的全球市场领导者。PCME寻求扩展到不断增长的气体排放监测市场（由于环境立法的增加，3亿英镑的复合年增长率为6%），并在未来十年内使公司的营业额增加五倍。工业工厂操作员需要能够促进工厂符合新法规的产品，市场上明显存在价格合理的气体分析仪的空白，这种分析仪可以“原位”部署（即直接安装在堆栈的一侧），并且可以在低浓度下监测多种气体的需求范围。PCME的目标是推出一套基于stfc RAL空间光谱组开发的FT-IR仪器新配置（“microFTS”）的产品来满足客户的需求。该配置封装了FT-IR技术的固有优势（即，它可以同时识别和监测各种气体），其简化和紧凑的格式比目前可用的FT-IR排放监测设备更实用。这是理想的形成PCME新气体产品系列的核心，并有可能改变气体排放监测，控制和减少领域。microFTS仍处于技术开发的早期阶段，在开始全面的产品开发之前，必须在实验室中对演示仪器进行测试和表征。该项目的目标是建立一个基本的原型仪器，验证其检测低浓度气体的能力，并开发一个化学计量学模型来分析仪器记录的光谱信息。该项目的成功将有助于PCME作为一项业务的增长（增加出口和创造就业机会），使工业工厂减少排放，并实现英国科学研究的商业化。

PCME is a global market leader in the supply of particulate (dust) monitoring instrumentationto industrial plants. PCME seeks to expand into the growing gas emissions monitoring market(£300 m with 6% CAGR driven by increased environmental legislation) and generate a fivefoldincrease in the company’s turnover within the next decade.Industrial plant operators need products that will facilitate the plant’s compliance with newregulations and there is a clear gap in the market for an affordable gas-analyser that can bedeployed “in-situ” (i.e. mounted directly on the side of the stack) and can monitor the requiredrange of multiple species of gas, at low concentrations.PCME aims to launch a suite of products to address this customer need based on the novelconfiguration of FT-IR instrument (“microFTS”) developed in the Spectroscopy Group ofSTFC RAL Space. The configuration encapsulates the inherent advantages of the FT-IRtechnique (i.e. it can simultaneously identify and monitor a wide range of gases) in aruggedized and compact format that is more practicable than the FT-IR emissions monitoringequipment that is currently available. This is ideal to form the core of PCME’s new gassensingproduct range and has the potential to transform the field of gaseous emissionsmonitoring, control and reduction.The microFTS is still at an early stage of technology development and before embarking on afull product development, a demonstrator instrument must be tested and characterised in thelaboratory. The objectives of this project are to build and a basic prototype instrument, verifyits ability to detect low concentrations of gases, and develop a chemometrics model to analysethe spectral information recorded by the instrument.The success of this project will contribute to the growth of PCME as a business (increasingexports and creating jobs), enable industrial plants to reduce emissions, and realise thecommercialisation of UK scientific research.