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Inline Raman · Sulfur & thiosulfate fertilizers (ATS)

ATS on spec, stream after stream.

Spectrally™ places a Raman probe directly into your ATS, KTS/CaTS, and AMS stream — inline, meaning within the absorption stream, pipeline, or tank itself, with no sampling required. Thiosulfate concentration, N/S ratio, and solution homogeneity are measured in seconds, continuously, without reagents, replacing the 20- to 60-minute wait for iodometric titration or ion chromatography.

< 5 s to a process value 0 sampling · 0 reagents 24/7 Continuous measurement Automatic calibration
Chemistry
ATS · KTS/CaTS · AMS

Ammonium, potassium, and calcium thiosulfate, plus ammonium sulfate — the aqueous sulfur-fertilizer streams produced by gas absorption.

Master variable
Thiosulfate concentration & N/S ratio

The parameters that define the product — read in real time rather than inferred after the batch.

Reference technique
Raman spectroscopy

Thiosulfate and sulfate are strong Raman-active oxyanions, and water is a weak Raman scatterer — so Raman measures them cleanly inline.

Where it sits
In the absorption stream, 24/7

An immersion probe in the absorption stream, pipeline, or tank, continuously feeding your PLC / DCS.

02 The gap you know too well

The stream does not wait for the lab.

Iodometric thiosulfate titration yields results in 20 to 30 minutes; full anion analysis by ion chromatography takes 30 to 60 minutes; densitometry serves only as a concentration proxy and never reveals composition. The absorption process runs continuously, so by the time the result is available, the stream has moved on.

Offline lab loop
20-60min

Sample, walk to the lab, run iodometric titration or ion chromatography, wait, report. A deviation in thiosulfate concentration or N/S ratio only surfaces as an off-spec delivery at your customer — after the product has shipped, where it becomes a complaint and a CE-certification issue.

Spectrally inline
< 5s

The probe reads the absorption stream, pipeline, or tank continuously and streams thiosulfate concentration, N/S ratio, and homogeneity to your control system. The deviation is caught while you can still correct it — so titration and ion chromatography become verification, not the bottleneck.

Measurement
0s

Spectrum to a process value, continuously.

Resolution
0ppm

Composition resolved down to single ppm.

Typical CAPEX
0

System CAPEX: 75 to 250k EUR — no reagents, no consumables.

Deployment
0mo

Typical timeline from feasibility to line: 3 to 5.5 months.

Your next step

Put it on your stream — starting with your own samples.

Send representative samples or process data from your ATS, KTS/CaTS, or AMS stream. We build and validate a chemometric model on your matrix and show you exactly what inline Raman would read on your line — before any commitment. Your feasibility study puts the numbers on the table: the validated model and the figures for your own material.

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