A near-infrared spectrometer incorporating solid-state design applicable for industrial quantitative/qualitative process monitoring analysis is presented. The solid-state near-infrared spectrometer provides inherent wavelength stability necessary for long term calibration accuracy. The spectrometer consists of a 24 volt, 10 watt quartz-halogen-tungsten regulated source with optical feedback. Wavelength dispersion was accomplished using a 50 μm entrance slit, f/4, 0.25 meter spectrograph equipped with astigmatism correcting toroidal mirrors and a 300 gr/mm plane reflectance ruled grating blazed for 2000 nm peak efficiency. A 1024 element backside- illuminated Schottky-barrier PtSi photodiode array detector with wavelength response from 900-5000 nm and peak quantum efficiency of 8% at 1100 nm was operated using cryogenic cooling to reduce dark response. A readout rate of 31.25 kHz produced 41 msec integration time per array read. The readout was digitized to 16 bit resolution for subsequent data storage. This system demonstrated 1.5 nm spectral bandpass, 3 orders linear dynamic range and typical baseline rms noise level of 10⁻⁴ a.u. Using this system, quantitative/qualitative chemical analyses were performed focusing on industrial analytical chemical applications. Simultaneous quantitative multcomponent xylene isomer mixtures analysis was achieved using the solid-state near-infrared spectrometer coupled with partial least squares regression multivariate data treatment. The results demonstrate an absolute accuracy of ± 0.05, ±0.12 and ±0.09% w/v for o-, m- and p-xylene isomers respectively. In a separate chemical study, qualitative classification analysis of specially denatured alcohol mixtures was successfully performed on 53 validation samples using 35 reference samples belonging to 12 classes. The validation set included mixture sample types used for model calibration as well as others composed of compounds not used for model calibration. The multivariate cluster classification method using principal components was employed to correctly classify 100% of the validations samples analyzed. The solid-state near-infrared spectrometer was also applied for direct reaction monitoring of the O-H overtone absorption band at 1411 nm for the reaction between triisopropyl-chlorosilane and methanol. The results illustrated the utility of near-infrared functional group monitoring of reactions at relatively high concentrations for information elucidation concerning reaction initiation and completion.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/282690 |
| Date | January 1998 |
| Creators | Gresham, Christopher Allen, 1965- |
| Contributors | Denton, M. Bonner |
| Publisher | The University of Arizona. |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. |
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