Instrumentation Reference Book, 4th Edition

Chapter 23. Chemical Analysis

Spectroscopy

A.C. Smith and I. Verhappen

23.1. Introduction

The analysis of substances by spectroscopic techniques is a rather specialized field and cannot be covered in full depth in a book such as this. However, some 15 techniques are covered here, with the basic principles for each, descriptions of commercial instruments, and, where possible, their use as online analyzers.

Details of other techniques can be found in modern physics textbooks, and greater detail of those techniques that are described here can be found in literature provided by instrument manufacturers such as Pye Unicam, Perkin-Elmer, Rilgers, and Applied Research Laboratories, and in America, ABB Process Analytics, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard (Aligent), ...