Heavy industry
LIBS on a coal conveyor
Elemental analysis at line speed in an environment of dust, vibration, varying burden depth and no scheduled downtime.
Custom sensing
Custom optical sensing systems
Evolve Sensing has three decades of experience in stand-off optical measurement, including absorption, reflectance, LIBS and Raman, in mines, smelters, fencelines and conveyor installations. This work is where Evolve started, and it shaped the product line.
Project process
From feasibility to installed units
1
Scope the measurement
The species, the matrix, the required accuracy, the cycle time and how the result is used. This usually takes a thirty-minute call and a sample.
2
Feasibility on your material
Evolve runs the actual sample on its benches and shares the measured spectra, including the results that indicate a difficult measurement.
3
Prototype and evaluate
An instrument on your bench or in your process, integrated with the existing control system.
4
Volume and support
ISO 9001 manufacture, supply stability and continuing engineering support.
Installation examples
Short accounts of installed systems. Each is a measurement that no catalog instrument covered.
Environmental
Fenceline gas monitoring
Stand-off absorption measurement across a plant boundary, running through the full annual temperature range, day and night.
Materials
Gated plasma emission capture
Plasma emission capture with gated timing on a rugged OEM bench, triggered against a pulsed laser.
Engineering capabilities
Optical access, sampling geometry, timing and ruggedization
Most custom projects are problems of optical access, sampling geometry, timing and survival in the installed environment. The spectrometer bench is the established part of the system.
- Stand-off and non-contact geometries
- Optical access designed for dust, heat and vibration
- Triggering and gating against pulsed sources
- Integration with existing PLC and process control
- Hardware and software delivered together
- Prototype through to volume manufacture in one place
Next step
Discuss a custom measurement with an engineer
Send the material, the species, the environment and the cycle time. An engineer will assess feasibility and reply promptly, including when the measurement is not feasible.