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By Amanda Gogates, Product Manager for Quantum Cascade Laser Analyzers, Emerson Process Management

You may have seen a few stories already on the innovative QCL laser technology. That technology has now been successfully implemented in Emerson’s Rosemount™ CT5100 continuous gas analyzer. It is the world’s only hybrid analyzer to combine Tunable Diode Laser (TDL) and Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) measurement technologies for process gas analysis and emissions monitoring. The CT5100 provides the most comprehensive analysis available (down to sub ppm) for detecting a range of components, while simplifying operation and significantly reducing costs. The CT5100 can measure up to 12 critical component gases and potential pollutants in a single system – meeting local, state, national, and international regulatory requirements.

But if you’re thinking that the CT5100 is remarkable but “bleeding edge” technology that your application can’t afford – think again. The Rosemount CT5100 operates reliably with no consumables, no in-field enclosure, and a simplified sampling system that does not require any gas conditioning to remove moisture – truly “next generation” technology which saves you money at every turn. The CT5100 is a unique combination of advanced technology and rugged design, and is highly reliable. Its patented laser chirp technique expands gas analysis in both the near- and mid-infrared range, enhancing process insight, improving overall gas analysis sensitivity and selectivity, removing cross interference, and reducing response time. This laser chirp technique produces sharp, well-defined peaks from high resolution spectroscopy that enables specificity of identified components with minimum interference and without filtration, reference cells, or chemometric manipulations.

The rugged Rosemount CT5100 analyzer features –

• Multi-laser, hybrid QCL/TDL configuration for up to 12 measurements simultaneously per analyzer
• Accurate and sensitive gas measurement
• Excellent linearity of response and repeatability
• Fast and continuous gas measurements using the patented chirp technique
• Low maintenance and low lifetime costs
• No long-term drift due to inherent stability of spectroscopic measurement technique
• Continuous health diagnostic reporting
• Embedded ARM processor for fully autonomous operation
• Modular architecture is easily serviceable and upgradeable in the field
• Superior spectral analysis to eliminate cross-interference and improve measurement accuracy
• Intuitive, simple front-panel user interface allows access to all instrument functions

Give your Emerson representative a call and discuss the potential of the CT5100 in your process gas analysis, continuous emissions monitoring, and ammonia slip applications. This could be a whole new solution to some costly problems. Click HERE for more information on the CT5100.