Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched a total nitrogen and total sulphur (TN/TS) analyser designed to analyse heavy and light hydrocarbons.
The direct-injection design of the Ipro 5000 series analyser provides the capacity to analyse both heavy and light hydrocarbons without changing introduction modules.
According to the company, scientists in environments such as petrochemical and commercial testing laboratories, oil refineries, research and development centres and chemical plants will benefit from time savings and productivity advantages in addition to total ASTM compliance.
The TN/TS analyser features the proprietary Thermo Scientific Jetpro direct spray injector, which enables automatic analysis from ppb levels up to per cent levels for both nitrogen and sulphur on just one instrument and without changing introduction modules.
As a result, it is now possible to quantify nitrogen and sulphur in heavy hydrocarbons within just three minutes.
Compared with the standard boat method, this is a significant reduction in the time spent from analysis to viewing results.
Offering precision of two per cent or better when analysing light hydrocarbons at ultra-low concentrations, the analyser ensures high accuracy as well as the reproducibility and repeatability of analysis.
Enabling meticulously controlled combustion processes, the analyser also contains proprietary pre-soot detection technology, which ensures complete combustion that is soot free.
The Ipro 5000 series analyser is designed to meet the diverse requirements of petrochemical analyses.
The instrument provides the capacity to analyse virtually any refinery sample from raw crude to end product, while ensuring ASTM compliance and optimising refinery processes.
For commercial testing laboratories requiring ASTM-compliant results over a wide range of applications, the Ipro 5000 series analyser is claimed to be four times faster than previous methods, which enables a significant increase in productivity and cost efficiency.
In addition, the instrument is suited to high-performance applications such as those conducted by research and development centres.
The Ipro 5000 series analyser is controlled by the Thermo Scientific NSX Visual software, which supports Microsoft Windows 7.
The NSX Visual software ensures ASTM compliance through pre-loaded ASTM method templates, which enable the user to select the required method and start the analysis.
The software is also programmed to alert the user if method parameters are changed to a value that is outside the scope of the official ASTM methods.
