According to Afrox, the fourth industrial revolution is coming to the compressed gas laboratory in the form of connected analysers.
The South African company said locally collected information from any sample and any laboratory can now be sent for comparative analysis online via a common central computer.
“There are hundreds of applications for gas analysis: determining the emission levels from industrial stacks, the health of a patients, the constituents and impurities levels in petrochemical product, the quality and purity of medicines from the pharmaceutical industry, the purity and accuracy of Afrox’s medical and industrial gas product ranges, and many more,” explained Hans Strydom, Afrox’s Production Quality Manager.
“Many different types of gas analysers are used, depending on the specific sample and the information required about the constituents – oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, helium, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide and hydrocarbons such as methane – as well as their physical factors such as flow rate, pressure and temperature.”
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