Polymer Laboratories is now offering online process monitoring and control systems for polymerisation processes based on HPLC and flow injection technologies
Polymer Laboratories (PL) has announced the launch of the PL-PMC series of online polymerisation process monitoring and control systems, developed under a license agreement with Symyx Technologies.
Polymer Laboratories has licensed selected Symyx patents directed toward high performance liquid chromatography and flow injection technologies.
Polymer Laboratories is now offering online process monitoring and control systems for polymerisation processes based on these technologies.
The PL-PMC series comprises versatile polymer molecular weight monitoring systems designed for the rapid, automated acquisition and analysis of real time data for polymerisation processes.
The series incorporates state of the art developments in ultra rapid molecular weight (MW) measurement techniques in the areas of gel permeation chromatography and flow injection analysis.
The front end of the PL-PMC system consists of an extraction device that automatically and continuously samples the contents of the reactor.
Polymer formed by a reactor is extracted, dissolved and/or diluted prior to being repetitively injected from a flow through valve into the analysis system.
Accurate measurements of MW, degree of monomer conversion and copolymer composition can then be performed by FIA or GPC, while GPC can additionally provide molecular weight distributions.
The PL-PMC series uses detectors such as RI, UV, evaporative light scattering (ELSD), absolute MW light scattering, viscosity and FTIR either on their own or in series to provide the fundamental data for monitoring and control of the polymerisation process.
In the PL-PMC series, the complete process of extraction, sample preparation, injection and detection is fully automated via a powerful graphical user interface.
GPC or FIA analysis software provides data specifically for either monitoring the process or in a format for providing feedback control of the reactor parameters and feed rate or composition.
