Analytical instruments

Importance Of Analytical Instruments

Analytical instruments  a large class of instruments used to analyze materials and to establish the composition.e.g  spectrophotometers, mass spectrometers, gas chromatographs, potentiometric titrators, ion analyzers, polarographs, coulometer, x-ray spectro-meters, Karl Fischer titrators, atomic absorption spectrometers, fluorimeters and many, many others

Importance analytical instruments are very important because them the world would not have been such as it is now. Many chemical and physical processes are kept count of by using analytical instruments.It was due to the use of these instruments in field of science which opened door way to new world and new prospective. Due to use of instruments such as spectrometer we have gained better under standing of atomic and molecular structure so many vital roles have been played by analytical instruments in the field of science research.

With the help of different chromatographic techniques, the analyst is separated from molecules in a mixture for isolation. These instruments are designed for the benefit of lab technicians, so that they can measure the density of gases in a lab. This practice is carried out to maintain the cleanliness in the premises, so that the patients may not come across any breathing difficulties.
Hospital-to detect blood or alcohol levels in a patient’s blood stream
Law Enforcement – to compare a sample found at  a crime scene to samples from suspects
Environmental Agency – determine the level of  pollutants in the water supply
Manufacturing Plant – to purify a chemical needed to make a product

Industry  In industry analytical instruments are used widely to monitor the chemical and physical processes and to keep quality under control

Agriculture Analytical instruments are important part of research associated with agriculture. These are used to check soil fertility and then the data obtained is further used for the recommendation process to recommend what kind of crop will best suite this kind of soil

DairyAnalytical instruments such are widely used and important part of dairy industry

·        Instruments such as bactocount are used to count bacteria in milk which insures that milk is safe to drink

·         These are used to count number of somatic cells in sample of milk

Pharmaceuticals In medicine making different analytical instruments are used it won’t be wrong to say that medicine industry would not exist without these instruments

·         Quality analysis of medicine to see whether it is up to proportion or not

·         In research and development of new medicines

·         In extraction of desired chemicals from the natural sources

Biotechnology   The use of mass spectrometry in the biotechnology field has increased such that the technique is essential in the development, manufacture, and control of protein therapeutics. The combination of mass spectrometry and chromatography (LC-MS) has proven to be particularly effective. Peptide maps (digested pieces of proteins separated by RP-HPLC) are now monitored by mass spectrometry to determine protein degradations such as oxidation and post-translational modifications like glycosylation (sugar content).

Petroleum industry  The petroleum products used in vehicles are the chemical composition of many compounds. They can make be pure by determining the components both by traditional X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and by total reflection (TXRF) and also by fractional distillations, where it is necessary to verify the presence of micro-traces of pollutants in pure products..

·         It is important to determine the presence of metals during the production of fuels or lubricating oils. This may be made through X-ray fluorescence techniques (XRF) or through optical emission spectrometers (ROTROIL).

·         Few ppm sulphur content in fuels is determinate through X-ray fluorescence (XRF). In chemical and petrochemical plant-engineering field the quality check of materials employed to build the facilities is extremely important. The elementary analysis or PMI of metal materials such as valves, pipes, reactors, is made through optical emission spectrometry (OES) and portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF)