Did you celebrate National Shower with a Friend Day last Month? Before you start to think that this blog has gotten NSFW (not safe for work), let us explain. The cheeky National Shower with a Friend Day was born out of a marketing strategy by a water filtration company in 2014. The goal: educate people... Continue Reading →
Transcend your calibration transfer woes in 10 steps (with Transpec)
A New Year means new beginnings! Heading into 2022 we’ve added some new members to our group: Isaac Rukundo and Kristen Frano are two product specialists who have recently joined the BUCHI NIR team! They contributed to the content of this post. We’re now amid that post-holiday trudge! Were you good enough last year for... Continue Reading →
Choose your Adventure: Taking NIR from the bench to production
This editorial on NIR calibration transfer from benchtop to production was submitted by Mark Sullivan, a Senior NIR Applications Specialist for BUCHI North America. Not long after many new users become accustomed to the speed and convenience of laboratory NIR over conventional techniques, it dawns on them that this technology is inherently suited for use... Continue Reading →
NIR as a tool for real-time quality determination of Distiller’s Dried Grains
In a prior blog, we shared how NIR online sensors could be used to optimize biofuel processes, starting at the farm, through fuel processing, and into feed applications. In this post we take a closer look at how NIR can be used as a measurement tool for a valuable co-product of the biofuel industry: distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Most ethanol plants in the United States are dry-grind facilities, which use starch... Continue Reading →
Tales from the Lab: NIR vs. Dumas for Carbon and Nitrogen Determination
This blog was contributed by Dr. Mark Sullivan, Technical and Application Specialist at BUCHI Corporation. The head of a well-known agricultural testing laboratory recently approached me with an unusual request. This laboratory performs 10’s of thousands of plant tissue analyses annually using the Dumas combustion technique for total nitrogen and carbon (AOAC Official Method 972.43).... Continue Reading →
Things are really getting cheesy at BUCHI.
When prodded, I suppose many at BUCHI would agree that some of the cheesiest members of the team belong to the NIR group. Maybe that's something to be proud of! More cheese, please! Cheese is delicious, after all. With a global market of around $100 Billion USD, I think there is a general agreement on... Continue Reading →
Best Practices: Sample Planning for Quantitative NIR Methods
The focus of this post is NIR project and sample planning, a critical step in the NIR method development process that often gets rushed through in the eagerness to have our NIR instruments pump out measurement results. Putting some extra effort into sample planning could pay off big dividends in terms of two things I... Continue Reading →
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Training an NIR?
Sample planning & calibration