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Energy & Alternative Energy Process Analyzers

Energy & Alternative Energy Process Analyzers

Process Insights provides gas, liquid, and water analysis solutions for traditional, renewable, and alternative energy applications, including hydrogen, renewable natural gas (RNG), fuel ethanol, biofuels, gasification, syngas, nuclear power, off-gas recovery, and industrial water and wastewater.

Our technologies provide real-time measurement of gas composition, hydrogen purity, trace impurities, moisture, oxygen, sulfur, heating value, Wobbe Index, BTU, TOC, COD, and other critical process parameters helping energy producers improve process control, product quality, efficiency, safety, and regulatory compliance.

Moreover, with our cutting-edge gas analysis technologies, we deliver tailored solutions that meet the exact requirements of each application. As a result, our customers benefit from greater efficiency, consistency, and confidence in their processes.

Why Process Insights for Energy Analysis?

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One Partner. Multiple Analytical Technologies.

Energy applications rarely depend on a single measurement.  Process Insights brings together specialized analytical technologies for gas composition, trace impurities, moisture, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, heating value, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, TOC, COD, and water quality.

Our portfolio includes:

  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS)
  • NIR & UV-Vis Spectroscopy
  • Heating Value / Calorimetry
  • Dew Point & Moisture Measurement
  • Oxygen Analysis
  • Total Sulfur & Total Nitrogen Analysis
  • TOC & COD Water Analysis
  • Chilled Mirror Hygrometry
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What Should Be Measured in Renewable Natural Gas?

Renewable natural gas production requires accurate measurement throughout gas processing, upgrading, quality control, custody transfer, combustion, and environmental compliance.

Process Insights provides real-time analytical solutions for critical RNG measurements including:

  • H₂S and total sulfur
  • Moisture
  • Oxygen
  • Gas composition
  • Net heating value
  • BTU
  • Wobbe Index
  • Specific gravity
  • CARI
  • CO and other gas components

Process Insights technologies support real-time RNG processing, custody transfer and environmental compliance as well as combustion optimization and hydrogen blending.

Recommended Technologies

MAX300-RTG™ 2.0 Industrial Mass Spectrometer
Real-time, multi-stream gas composition analysis for fuel compliance and process control.

9610Cxc™ Calorimeter
Direct heating-value measurement for BTU, CARI, Wobbe Index, and density.

SGA-1000™
Fast, multi-cycle total sulfur analysis for fuel gases.

XPDM™ / HDT™
Dew point measurement and transmitters for moisture monitoring.

Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Gas Analysis

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How Do You Measure Hydrogen Purity and Impurities?

Hydrogen quality can directly affect production efficiency, storage and distribution systems, fuel cell performance, and downstream processes.

Process Insights provides analytical technologies for hydrogen and syngas process control, hydrogen purity analysis, and trace impurity monitoring across hydrogen generation, storage, and delivery.

Recommended Technologies

TIGER OPTICS CRDS real-time trace impurity analysis.

EXTREL Mass Spectrometry – real-time multi-component and multi-impurity analysis.

COSA XENTAUR Dew Point – moisture, and dew point.

COSA XENTAUR Calorimeters – heating-value measurement.

Gasification & Syngas Analysis

Real-Time Gas Composition for Gasification and Pyrolysis

Gasification and pyrolysis processes require fast information about changing gas composition to optimize process conditions, product quality, and energy recovery.

Recommended Technologies

EXTRELMAX300-RTG™ 2.0 Mass Spectrometer
EXTRELVeraSpec™ MBx Mass Spectrometer System
COSA XENTAURXPDM™ / HDT™ Dew Point
ALPHA OMEGA INSTRUMENTSOxygen analyzers and monitors

Fuel Ethanol & Fermentation Process Monitoring

How Can Real-Time Analysis Improve Ethanol Fermentation?

Real-time fermentation monitoring gives operators continuous insight into bioreactor performance instead of relying solely on intermittent laboratory measurements.

Process Insights analyzers support fermenter and bioreactor off-gas analysis and measurement of:

Oxygen Uptake Rate (OUR)
Carbon Dioxide Evolution Rate (CER)
Respiratory Quotient (RQ)
Fermentation endpoint

Continuous monitoring can help optimize fermentation, improve yield and quality, and reduce waste. The portfolio also supports real-time determination of ethanol in gasoline.