With a rather larger number of commercially-viable applications available on Earth, Keit launched onto the global marketplace with an analytical instrument that could provide process analysis of fluids in industrial settings.
Immediate applications included biofuel companies wanting to optimize their feedstock pre-treatment processing, or to monitor a fermentation process in real time; then chemical, pulp & paper and edible oil refining companies who needed instruments sturdy enough to be used right in the production plant for real-time insights, rather than relying on the lengthy wait for off-line sample analysis.
The advantage of in situ process analytical technology (PAT) remains the ability to capture the reaction analysis as it happens in real time – alerting production managers of potential irregularities for faster decision making and better resource management.
