Chemical Characterization of Particles
In order to provide specific information on contaminant microparticles immediately and accurately, Warsash Scientific is pleased to present rap.ID’s Single Particle Explorer for particle counting, morphological analysis and chemical characterisation.
The Single Particle Explorer was created for routine particle characterization. As part of this, it can be used quite easily for identification and characterisation of contaminant particulate.
Contaminant microparticles result in significant loss of quality and reduction of production yield. The Single Particle Explorer supports your routine particle characterisation to allow appropriate measures for particle minimization to be taken independently, quickly and safely.
Through optimized and integrated particle filtration and illumination, fully-automated image processing and Raman spectroscopy, the Single Particle Explorer is ideal for particles from as small as 5 μm. It provides information about particle number and size, shape (Elongation; angularity, circular equivalent, diameter, area), and chemical composition (Material with degree of database compliance).
The isolation, characterization and identification of microparticles is particularly relevant for industries such as pharmaceutical (reporting according to 21 CFR Part 11), medical device, semiconductor, electronics and hard disk manufacturing, car, food, and aerospace engineering, etc.
New features of the Single Particle Explorer include;
- Autosampler: Up to 4 samples can be loaded simultaneously into the sample changer.
- Flexible Magnification and Illumination: The system changes the objectives either for the particle documentation, size measurement or for the Raman spectroscopy. Optional with brightfield illumination and colour images.
- Auto Focus: Every particle image is sharp. Several fields on the focal plane are measured and the entire filter surface, up to 18 mm effective filtration area is evaluated down to a minimum particle size of 5 μm.
- Particle Identification: Down to a particle size of 2 μm particles are automatically analyzed. The system positions the laser focus on the particles. They can be selected by size, shape criteria or manually.
