SPEC·IMAGINGConventional optical methods struggle once a liquid turns turbid or highly absorbing. Spec-Imaging is built to pull useful color, spectral and particle information out of these optically complex liquids.
In a clear liquid, light loss is mostly absorption. In a turbid liquid — an emulsion, suspension or cell culture — particles also scatter light, and conventional optics struggle to tell the two effects apart.
Light loss is mostly absorption — relatively straightforward to interpret.
Suspended particles, droplets or cells also scatter light — the two effects become hard to tell apart.
Spec-Imaging illuminates the sample with structured light and analyses how the signal responds. That additional information makes it possible to treat scattering separately from the optical measurement you actually want.
Turns a scattering-dominated signal into a usable color, absorbance or particle reading.
An optional layer that can translate the optical measurement into process information — process state, concentration trends, COD surrogates — only where a model is needed.
The same optical approach supports laboratory validation through to continuous inline monitoring.