Guaranteeing Product Quality: NIR Inspection of Polyols, Isocyanates and Silicones

Incoming materials inspection, or raw materials identification (RMID), is critical to the production of high-quality industrial products.

While spectroscopic RMID tests are often used in the chemical industry, they are less common in the polymer industry because many of the samples are not well-suited to commonly deployed technologies like Raman and FTIR. This forces companies to either trust the label or rely on traditional wet-chemical tests for materials testing.

During this webinar, Omar Sallouh, Head of Quality Assurance & Process Engineering at Rampf Polymer Solutions GmbH & Co. Kg presents a faster and safer approach for quality testing of polyols, isocyanates and silicones. He has successfully implemented Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in the QC laboratory to rapidly identify incoming materials and quantify their critical quality attributes.

Mr. Sallouh joins Dr. Adam J. Hopkins, Spectroscopy Product Manager at Metrohm USA, who will give a brief introduction to NIR, focusing on its advantages for material identification and comparing with alternative technologies. The event closes with a Q&A session to address any questions asked during and after the webinar.

Presenter: Omar Sallouh, M.Sc. (Head of QA & Process Engineering, Rampf Polymer Solutions GmbH & Co. KG)

Omar Sallouh has been working for RAMPF Polymer Solutions since 2018. He is responsible for Quality Assurance and Process Engineering.

He has a Master of Science in Chemistry from the Technical University of Dortmund.

Presenter: Adam J. Hopkins, PhD (Spectroscopy Product Manager, Metrohm USA)

Dr. Adam J. Hopkins has nearly 20 years of experience as a spectroscopist. He got his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Oregon where he studied nonlinear optical spectroscopy under Geraldine Richmond. Prior to joining Metrohm USA, Adam worked developing spectroscopic solutions for standoff and noncontact sensing applications using Laser Induced Breakdown and Raman spectroscopy. Dr. Hopkins is a member of the American Chemical Society, Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Coblentz Society, and SPIE. He is the author of 19 papers and proceedings and is the author of three patents.