Ethylene is the world’s largest volume industrially produced organic material and propylene the second most used petrochemical commodity. Impurities of those gases in large scale production processes still lead to enormous chemical waste, since the detection of such impurities is a complex and slow process that takes 9 minutes with today’s most sophisticated systems.
Accordin to Digital Agenda Blog, members of the European industry, namely the project partners NANOPLUS (a German SME), Gas Measurement Instruments (a Scottish SME) and SIEMENS, are now in the pole position to exploit the full potential of this new technology. The CEO of NANOPLUS, Dr. Johannes Koeth stated that: “the interest in our new MIR laser is overwhelming and representatives of companies all over the world will come for the product launch in January 2012.” The new products will boost the business of NANOPLUS with growth rates expected to exceed 10%. After a product development and certification phase Gas Measurement Instruments will launch a new product (a portable gas detector) and SIEMENS will integrate the new gas detector in their large-scale chemical production equipment offerings. The SENSHY project has been nominated for the prism award in two categories of the Photonics West Conference, which is the most prestigious event in the field of scientific research and product development, thereby confirming this project’s scientific excellence and unprecedented impact on the chemical industry.