Thermo Scientific Spectrometers

Thermo Scientific process mass spectrometers enable scientific advances with exceptional resolution, accuracy, sensitivity, and throughput. These efficient, highly precise instruments offer lab-quality gas analysis with multi-port magnetic sector technology. 

What is Mass Spectrometry Used For?

Process mass spectrometry analysis is used to maximize product yield and increase profitability. Process mass spectrometers offer quantitative workflows for proteins, pesticides, drug metabolites, and other challenging process applications. Industries that rely on process gas analyzers include the petrochemical, iron and steel, and biotechnology industries.

Benefits of Thermo Scientific Process Mass Spectrometers

• Highly reliable
• Easy-to-own
• High throughput
• Deliver faster, more complete, lab-quality online gas analysis and process analytics

Prima BT Bench Top Process Mass Spectrometer

The Prima BT Bench Top Process Mass Spectrometer is a real-time process gas analyzer offering high scanning speeds and reproducible measurements for process development laboratories. Highly precise results are based on scanning magnetic-sector mass spectrometry.

The Thermo Scientific Prima BT Bench top Mass Spectrometer is designed for continuous operation in a laboratory environment. As a bonus, this industrial laboratory gas analyzer is as simple to operate as it is easy to maintain.

In mass spectrometry, off-gases and vapors that have the potential to contaminate internal vacuum components. The Prima BT achieves robust performance as the ions are extracted from the ion source at high energy, with excellent stability for low molecular weight compounds such as hydrogen and helium.

Key Features of the Prima BT Bench Top Process Mass Spectrometer include:

• Scanning magnetic-sector technology
• High analytical precision, accuracy and stability
• Thermo Scientific™ GasWorks Software

Cooling	Fan cooled
Ambient Temperature Range	Ideally 18 to 22 °C. Permissible range 12 °C to 30 °C
Rapid Multistream Sampler (RMS)	16 ports
RMS Maximum Temperature	80 °C
Calibration Manifolds	Single 6-way automatic calibration manifold
Number of Serial Ports	3
Inputs & Outputs	4 digital inputs, 3 digital outputs

Prima PRO Process Mass Spectrometer

The Prima PRO Process Mass Spectrometer helps maximize product yield and increase profits. The Prima Pro delivers faster, more complete, lab quality online gas composition analysis.

Highly reliable and easy-to-own, the Prima Pro is an online mass spectrometer and process gas analyzer with a small footprint and minimal maintenance requirements.

With its rugged, fault tolerant design, Prima PRO online mass spectrometer serves process applications in the petrochemical, iron and steel, and biotechnology industries. Availability exceeds 99.7%. Simplified maintenance and auto-tune capability ensure easy operation and improved productivity. The Prima PRO Online Mass Spectrometer also features:

• Enhanced analyzer control for increased sensitivity, precision, accuracy and mass range
• Electronics incorporating higher specification components
• Fast online process gas analysis (1 to 20 seconds per point) for accurate process dynamics tracking
• Comprehensive measurement data provided to advanced process control (APC) models
• 30- to 90-day automated calibration interval
• Thermo Scientific™ GasWorks Software

The Prima PRO Online Mass Spectrometer is used in:

• Fermentation processes
• Cell culture processes
• Iron and steel processes
• Ethylene, ammonia, hydrogen plants
• Ethylene oxide, methanol, polyethylene/polypropylene
• Ethylene oxide process
• Catalysis research
• Solvent drying

Cooling	Air conditioner
Ambient Temperature Range	12 °C to 40 °C
Rapid Multistream Sampler	32 or 64 up to 120 streams
RMS Maximum Temperature	120 °C
Calibration Manifolds	Up to four 6-way manifolds
Number of Serial Ports	5
Inputs & Outputs	13 digital inputs, 13 digital outputs plus wide range of optional analog & digital I/O

Chemical/Petrochemical

Iron/Steel

Biotechnology/Biopharma