44 results about "Fourier transform infra red" patented technology

A material and a method for forming a tamper-indicating identification coating are provided. The components of the coating are selected such that the coating exhibits a characteristic absorption spectrum with distinct features in individual regions during Fourier-transform infa-red (FTIR) spectroscopy. The coating components are selected to provide a distinct spectrum while, at the same time, providing a sufficiently complex spectrum such that the coating is difficult to duplicate. Also, a blowing agent in the coating decomposes to change the FTIR spectrum due to the heat associated with resoldering of an out-of-warranty electronic part marked with the identification coating to an in-warranty circuit card. In addition, the coating may contain a fluorophore to reveal the presence of a tamper-indicating identification coating, allowing a manufacturer to check the card by exposure with ultra-violet (UV) light. Further, the coating composition may be changed periodically and tracked to provide a date marker.

A rapid method for characterizing and identifying microorganisms using Focal-Plane Array (FPA)-Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is disclosed. Multi-pixels spectral images of unknown microorganisms spectra are analyzed and compared to spectra of reference microorganisms in databases. The method allows rapid and highly reliable identification of unknown microorganisms for the purpose of medical diagnosis, food and environmental control.

Devices, assemblies, systems and methods useful in the detection of hydrocarbons in well-related fluids such as drilling fluids during well-related operations are disclosed. Such devices, assemblies, systems and methods may be used for real-time analysis of gas(es) extracted from a fluid associated with an ongoing well-related operation. An exemplary method may comprise: receiving gas extracted from the fluid associated with the well-related operation; analyzing the gas using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy; and generating one or more signals useful in the determination of a composition of the gas extracted from the fluid.

An FT-IR toxic gas monitoring system and method for detection of one or more toxic gas species in a fluid environment containing or susceptible to presence of toxic gases. Such gas monitoring system includes: (1) a spectroscopic monitoring assembly for transmitting modulated infrared radiation through a spectroscopic cell that contains a gas sample from such fluid environment and generating a corresponding digitized spectrum characteristics of such gas sample for analysis; (2) a gas sampling and delivery subsystem for sampling the fluid environment and delivering the gas sample to the spectroscopic cell; and (3) a computational assembly (i) including a stored signal-to-noise ratio reference, and a stored background spectrum for the fluid environment when the toxic gas species is not present, and (ii) arranged to analyze the digitized spectrum and responsively produce an output indicative of quantitative presence of the toxic gas species in the fluid environment.

A multi-angle full-automatic earth surface fine emissivity spectrum collecting system device is composed of a full-automatic sample rotary platform, an earth surface off-ground infrared radiance measurement device and an earth surface fine emissivity spectrum inversion module. The full-automatic sample rotary platform realizes rapid rotation through an electric rotary platform carried on a movable tabletop, and can remotely control the rotary platform to be switched between a sample and a metal plate in a rotary mode according to a set rotation angle and pace; the earth surface off-ground infrared radiance measurement device mainly adopts a Fourier transform infrared wavelength dispersive spectrometer for observation and measurement and collects and stores off-ground radiance data of the sample and the metal plate within the wave length range of 3-16 micrometers with the cooperation of the full-automatic sample rotary platform; the obtained off-ground infrared radiance data are input to the built earth surface fine emissivity spectrum inversion module, and an emissivity spectral line of the sample within the wave length range of 3-16 micrometers is obtained.

The invention relates to a method for operating a FTIR (Fourier transformation infrared) spectrometer, wherein a validation / calibration of the spectrometer is carried out in cyclically recurring intervals in that by way of at least two temporarily available gases a reference spectrum with a zero gas and also an absorption spectrum with a calibration gas are recorded. The invention further relates to a spectrometer according to the preamble of the patent claims 1 and 8. In order to achieve that at each site of use and at any time a calibration or validation of the spectrometer can be carried out, the invention proposes to use so-called substitute gases during the validation of the spectrometer as gas components, said substitute gases only simulating the actual measured gas component with respect to the metrological properties.

A silicon-nitrogen compound film according to the first aspect of the present invention is made of a material expressed by a compositional formula Si3NxOyHz, where 10≦(3x+2y)≦12, 3.4≦x≦4.0, 0≦y, 0≦z<2.0, the peak-area ratio of a first area of a first peak appearing near a wave number of 2150 cm−1 in a Fourier-transform infrared absorption spectrum of the material and corresponding to a Si—H stretching vibration to a second area of a second peak appearing near a wave number of 810 cm−1 in the Fourier-transform infrared absorption spectrum and corresponding to a Si—N stretching vibration is smaller than 0.2, and the silicon-nitrogen compound film has a thickness t (in nanometers) and a density d (g / cm3) which satisfy the inequalities,1.9≦d≦2.5, and−700d+1930≦6t≦−700d+2530.

The present invention provides a modified polypropylene fiber for treating a glass fiber, giving a molded article remarkably improved in its vibration fatigue strength, a surface-treated glass fiber and fiber-reinforced polypropylene-based resin. This modified polyolefin-based resin for treating the glass fiber is provided with that (1) its amount extracted by boiling methyl ethyl ketone is <=8 mass%, (2) its number-average molecular weight (Mn) measured by a gas permeation chromatography (GPC) is 6,000-48,000 and (3) the amount of added acid measured by a Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy is within 0.1-12 mass% range.

The invention discloses a portable Fourier transform infrared gas analyzer suitable for a field complex environment. The analyzer comprises a light source assembly, an interface sealing ring assemblyI, a cable group I, an angle mirror type Michelson interferometer and light path assembly, a power panel, a cable group II, an electrical mainboard, an interface sealing ring assembly II, an interfacesealing ring assembly III, a gas chamber, a battery, a gas pump and an electromagnetic valve; the light source assembly comprises a collimating mirror, an infrared light source and a third plane mirror; and the angle mirror type Michelson interferometer and light path assembly comprises a light transmitting window piece, a first plane mirror, a second plane mirror, a laser detector, a beam splitter, a fourth plane mirror, a first sealing window piece, a second sealing window piece, an infrared detector, an ellipsoidal mirror, a parabolic mirror, a movable mirror, a fixed mirror and a laser device. The gas chamber comprises a third sealing window piece, a first concave mirror, a second concave mirror, a third concave mirror and a fourth sealing window piece. Technical indexes and environmental applicability of the analyzer are superior to those of corresponding foreign products, and the analyzer can be popularized and used in vast areas of China.

Devices, assemblies, systems and methods useful in the detection of hydrocarbons in well-related fluids such as drilling fluids during well-related operations are disclosed. Such devices, assemblies, systems and methods may be used for real-time analysis of gas(es) extracted from a fluid associated with an ongoing well-related operation. An exemplary method may comprise: receiving gas extracted from the fluid associated with the well-related operation; analyzing the gas using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy; and generating one or more signals useful in the determination of a composition of the gas extracted from the fluid.

The present invention is a method to determine the cetane number of a diesel fuel containing a fatty acid alkyl ester including determining the infrared spectrum of the fuel and correlating the spectrum to the cetane number using a multivariate-based Mid-FTIR model. The fatty acid alkyl ester may be rapeseed methyl ester and the infrared spectrum includes the frequency ranges 4900-3500 cm−1 and 2200-1624 cm−1 or the frequency ranges 4900-3500 cm−1 2200-1800 cm−1 and 1700-1624 cm−1.

An electric double-layer capacitor having a separator that contains polyacrylonitrile. An infrared absorption spectrum of the separator measured by a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer has a first peak in a range from 2240 cm−1 to 2250 cm−1 and a second peak in a range from 1580 cm−1 to 1630 cm−1. A ratio of an intensity of the second peak to an intensity of the first peak is 0.08 or more.

The present invention is a method and an apparatus for identifying and quantifying components in an effluent stream from an ammoxidation reactor, the apparatus comprising a microprocessor; and a Fourier Transform infrared spectrometer having a sample cell through which may flow a portion of the effluent stream, an infrared source to emit infrared radiation and pass the infrared radiation through the effluent stream, an infrared detector to detect transmitted infrared radiation at the selected infrared wavelengths and to generate absorbance data due to absorbance of the infrared radiation by the components, wherein each of the components absorbs infrared radiation at one or more of the infrared wavelengths, and an output apparatus to provide the absorbance data to the microprocessor; wherein the microprocessor is programmed to identify and quantify each of the plurality of components based upon the absorbance data and calibration data, the calibration data being obtained from recovery run analyses and calibration analyses in the sample cell. The method may be applied to utilize the apparatus to provide real-time control of the operation of an ammoxidation reactor, based on the analytical results obtained by the FT-IR spectrometer and the calibration model developed therefor.

Disclosed is a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer, which comprises: a main interferometer section including a beam splitter, a fixed mirror, a movable mirror, and a phase plate disposed between the beam splitter and the fixed mirror; a control interferometer section having a quadrature control system for calculating a position of the movable mirror; a center-burst-position detection section operable, based on an input of interference signals and interferograms, to subject respective intensities of the interferograms to an addition processing while correcting a positional deviation of the movable mirror, so as to obtain a cumulative interferogram, and detecting a center burst position having a maximum intensity value in the cumulative interferogram; a center-burst-position storage section operable to store the detected center burst position; and a measurement-start-position determination section operable, based on the stored center burst position, to determine a measurement start position of the movable mirror during the measurement operation.

A toner including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent is provided. The difference in absorbance ratio between the toner heated for 1 minute in an atmosphere of 100° C. and the toner stored in an atmosphere of 23° C. is from 0.1 to 0.2. The absorbance ratio is a ratio of an absorbance specific to the release agent (such as at 2850 cm−1 for a wax) to an absorbance specific to the binder resin (such as at 828 cm−1 for a polyester based binder resin), as measured by a Fourier transform infrared-total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) method.

The invention relates to a kerogen type classification method based on FTIR analysis. According to the method, the difference of functional groups reflected by absorption peaks corresponding to different wave numbers of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) is used; the characteristics of infrared spectrum absorption peaks of functional groups such as aliphatic hydrocarbon, aromatic hydrocarbon and oxygen in kerogen are established; the relative content of the functional groups is determined; the relative content of the functional groups can reflect the relative content of C, H and O in kerogen; therefore, the correlation between the relative content of O / C and H / C and the characteristic spectrum in kerogen infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) is constructed; and the organic matter type of kerogen isanalyzed through a normal form diagram, so as to judge the type of kerogen. The method has characteristics of simpleness, rapidness and low cost, has characteristics of no damage on a sample, less use amount and substantially improved accuracy, and has a significant application value.