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mid infrared (mir) spectrometers

for outstanding accuracy across industrial, ENVIRONMENTal and laboratory applications;

Industrial MIR Spectrometers

Handheld MIR Spectrometers

ATR & Transmission MIR Spectrometer Demo Kits

Pyroelectric Line Array Components

• 128 Sensor Pixel Line Array
• 255 Sensor Pixel Line Array
• 510 Sensor Pixel Line Array
• Pyroelectric Line Array Component Demo Kit

Packaged Sensor Components

Transistor Outline (TO) Packaged Sensors:

• Single Channel, Dual Channel & Quad Channel Sensors (TO39)
• Flame Sensors with Wide Field of View (TO5)
• Surface Mountable Sensors –
  Dual Channel & Quad Channel

Demo Kits available

• Touchless Gesture Control
• ATR & Transmission MIR Spectrometers 
• Line Array Components
• Gas Detection
• Flame Sensor

TO Packaged Sensors

Single, Dual & Quad Channel

Pyreos offers a full range of TO packaged sensors from single to quad channel in the common sized TO39/TO5 packages and also a miniaturised single channel TO46. Our products are reliable and easy to use. They all have a standard voltage output and pin compatibility with other suppliers, but benefit from both the advanced performance of our thin film pyroelectric sensor and the integration of a front-end operational amplifier within the package. Together this provides a compelling competitive advantage circuit offering extremely strong responsivity, fast frequency operation, and unparalleled robustness, allowing our customers to set new performance limits in terms of measurement resolution, temperature range, and real-time analysis.

All of our sensors are available with a wide choice of filters, and with options for all common gases, including CO2, toxic, flammable and refrigerant gases. Our team can also source filters for your NDIR gas or liquid analysis application. 

KEY Features & Benefits

Ideal for:

• NDIR gas detection 
• NDIR pellistor replacements
• Automotive gas analysis
• Medical IR analysis 
• Anaesthesia
• Fluid analysis
• THz detection
• Energy measurement
• Miniaturised designs

Flame Detectors

Standard Single Channel Flame Detectors

Pyreos has a range of single channel flame detector products in standard TO packages for use in industrial flame detection. All of our flame detectors offer a wide field of view of over 900 in all directions. Our products offer improved sensitivity to flame flicker, as well as robustness and rapid recovery from mechanical or electrical shock compared to our competitors. We provide standard detectors with filters covering the key visible, near IR and mid IR flame signatures, and we can also source or assemble custom filters for you. Our flame detectors offer excellent performance at a competitive price and are pin and filter compatible with other suppliers (see datasheet PY-ITV-FLAME–T039(2+1)). They are available immediately in sample quantities to a few thousand pieces. Please contact us for a quotation.

Multi-channel Flame Detectors

Pyreos has developed unique three channel and four channel flame detector products. These socket and surface mount flame detector products provide all of the required IR flame sensing in component, without compromising on field of view or performance. The close proximity of the sensors ensures a better overlap in their field of view, thereby improving safety, whilst offering our customers further savings in the size and thickness of sapphire window required in their end product housing. The reduced component count, new form factor, and surface mount compatibility offer new opportunities for reduced size, cost and weight, without reducing performance.  Both three and four channel sensors can be built with your choice of filters.

Surface Mountable Sensors - Dual and Quad Channel

Overview

Pyreos pyroelectric thin film IR sensors have a MEMs device structure that contributes to their overall robustness and reliability. An enhanced ability to withstand high temperatures and a solid four sided die attachment process makes surface mount pyroelectric IR sensors possible. This new, low profile package provides excellent EMC noise shielding and has further improved reliability by eliminating failures related to metal pins of conventional TO packages. Plus it enables fully automated surface mount assembly of gas sensor products.  Pyreos currently offers dual channel sensors that have a similar package cap and window size to our TO39 packaged sensors, with all filter window options available. Our premium surface mount quad channel sensor offers the highest possible signal-to-noise performance and has been used by customers in combination with our emitters to achieve 1ppm detection levels. 

The package form factor also offers excellent flexibility to provide new configurations and formats of multi-gas sensors and emitters to our customers, enabling innovation in final product design and function.

FEATURES & PERFORMANCE

Key Benefits

• Smaller gas sensor products 
• Lower manufacturing costs  
• Enhanced product quality

Line Array Components

Overview

Pyreos has a unique capability to manufacture un-cooled pyroelectric line array sensors that offer high performance right across the infrared spectrum. Our unique thin film pyroelectric material can be easily patterned to provide individual sensor pixels on the thermally isolating membrane layer of our sensor device. By dispersing different wavelengths of light onto each sensor pixel, new, low cost, solid state IR spectrometers and IR imaging devices become possible. Our customers are using this breakthrough product to provide new analytical solutions in medical, industrial, and scientific fields.

The line arrays are housed in a standard metal dual in line 16 pin package, that outputs an amplified, analogue multiplexed signal.  The arrays can be supplied with a variety of filter window options including NIR and mid-IR linear variable filters (LVF), as well more standard options such as anti-reflection coated Si, ZnSe, or Ge windows. These line array products provide a radical new low cost alternative approach to building IR spectrometers and  spectral analysers. 

KEY Features & Benefits

• Strong sensitivity across the IR spectral region 
• Fast operation & readout
• Robust MEMs sensor structure 
• Choice of resolution
• Spectral engine with LVF    
• Low power consumption
• Low cost uncooled solution 
• Small size and weight

Ideal For:

• IR spectroscopy 
• Medical diagnostics  
• Diabetes monitoring
• Laser line calibration 
• Process monitoring 
• Oil analysis
• InGaAs replacement 
• Terahertz imaging 
• Security screening

Demo Kits

Overview

Pyreos has a range of easy-to-use, PC-compatible demonstration kits (Demo kits) available immediately for rapid and full evaluation of our sensor technology. Our demonstartion kits typically use standard and well known, off-the-shelf electronic components to take our sensor output  signal and digitise it, so that it can be transferred and analysed via USB interface on a standard Windows based PC. All the operating instructions, functionality, and schematics are contained in the Demo User Guides. One kit can also support numerous Pyreos products, for example the NDIR gas kit, which can take any of the Pyreos TO packaged sensors. Our knowledgeable applications team will be available to support you as you move forward in the development of your product. 

Demo Kits Available For rapid and easy testing

• Touchless Gesture Control Demo kit
• Transmission Spectrometer Demo Kit
• ATR Spectrometer Demo Kit
• Line Array Demo Kit
• Gas Sensor Demo Kit

Industrial MID INFRARED (MIR) Spectrometers

Overview

Pyreos is able to supply rugged, solid-state mid IR spectrometer systems that can provide high performance monitoring of liquids or gases in the harshest of environments.  Our industrial systems are designed and built to each customer’s unique requirements to provide the best possible solution, and have included high pressure and explosive proof solutions. Our expertise includes developing chemometric solutions for customers.

Features & Performance

• Rapid, accurate mid IR analysis  - suitable for liquids or gases
• Standard interfaces available: CAN/RS232/Ethernet/wireless
• Solid state with a wide temperature range and stabilised for vibration & shock

Key Benefits

• Economic and accurate mid IR data
• Robust and long lasting - suitable for online or inline continuous mid IR monitoring
• Can be designed to integrate into your existing manufacturing system

Ideal for:

• Oil analysis & condition monitoring 
• Transformer monitoring
• Food processing 
• Petrochemical, diesel & biodiesel analysis
• Chemical reaction monitoring  
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing

Handheld mid IR Spectrometer For ATR & Transmission

Overview

Pyreos brings you handheld mid IR spectroscopy for immediate, simple and accurate analysis of solids, liquids and slurries typically over 2.5- 5.0 or 5.5 -11 um ranges. Our battery powered devices are compact and robust enabling instant, reliable on-site results removing the wait for expensive lab-based analysis or any requirements for complex training.

Using Attentuated Total Reflectance Measurement (ATR) as a sampling method allows for instant, convenient and              cost-effective collection of multiple infrared spectral measurements. An additional software suite is further available to enable rapid and advanced chemometric and prediction functionality.

Features & Performance

• Rapid analysis in 5.5-11um (fingerprint region) & 2.5-5.0um (functional groups)
• Ultra compact, lightweight enclosure (0.5kg)
• Long life battery with USB charging option
• Consistent and accurate analysis with ability to measure in the ppm range
• Can be pre-loaded with chemometric calibration data
• Simple, easy to use software
• Rapid PLSR analysis feasible through purchase of additional Pyreos chemometrics software

Key Benefits

• Fast, accurate results at low cost
• Onsite analysis – no more waiting for expensive lab based results!
• High performance even in harsh, challenging environments

Ideal for

• Portable oil analysis
• Soil analysis            
• Food analysis
• Oil in water analysis
• Biodiesel monitoring
• Pharmaceutical QA
• Medical analysis of urine & saliva
• Wastewater monitoring

Gas Sensing

Overview

NDIR gas detection has a vital role in reducing the global effects of climate change. As the premier method for monitoring CO2 gas levels in both environmental and industrial settings, NDIR (non-dispersive infra-red) gas detection helps ensure compliance with the most challenging government environmental targets and safety legislation. Pyreos sensor and emitter products are helping our customers achieve ground breaking performance improvements in detection limits and reliability, as well as enabling innovative new product form factors.

NDIR gas detection is also the preferred method for detecting many other flammable, toxic, and refrigerant gases in a wide variety of industrial process control and medical applications, as it is recognised as a technique that offers excellent reliability and accuracy, as well as the lowest overall cost of ownership.

The recent  introduction of lower cost pulseable black-body IR emitters has further extended the range of gases that can now be monitored using NDIR to include gases with “fingerprint” absorptions from 4-15 microns like NO2, SOx , NH3 and many more. Our sensors’ strong mid IR sensitivity is ideally suited for these. 

Pyreos sensors and emitters combine to  provide excellent fast frequency operation, enabling high accuracy, real-time multi-gas analysis and greatly reducing the size, cost and weight of multi-gas analysers.  

With a wide product range and an easy ability to provide custom products in unique form factors, Pyreos is here to help take your gas sensing applications to new levels of performance and competitive advantage.

Pyreos' Solution

• TO Packaged Sensors  
• TO Packaged Blackbody Emitters
• Surface Mount Sensors 
• Surface Mount Emitters / Bulb replacements

Key Benefits

• Performance 
• Reliability 
• Stability 
• Ease of Use 
• Cost-to-performance