We offer a contract R&D service including design and build of application-specific LIBS instruments and more generally various items of laboratory equipment and related hardware / software. Our work in this area has included:
- Experimental investigations
- Feasibility studies
- Literature reviews and paper studies
- Prototype design, development and manufacture
- Field trials of prototype instruments, devices and systems
Previous examples of contract R&D work we have conducted are as follows:
LIBS
- Concept design and feasibility study for a LIBS system applicable to nuclear safeguards in an engineering-scale pyroprocessing facility (KAERI, 2017)
- Experimental investigations in advantages, disadvantages and limitations of four general designs of hot cell LIBS system (NNL, 2016)
- A pre-feasibility study for legacy fissile waste characterisation (NNL, 2016)
- Concept design and testing of a multi-fibre laser cleaning probe (EDF, 2015)
- A feasibility study for Ultra-Long Range LIBS (QinetiQ, 2014)
- Experimental study on the application of LIBS for measuring impurities in fluorine gas (Solvay Fluor, 2013)
- Feasibility study for the use of LIBS for materials characterisation of circumferential welds in Neutron Scatter Plugs at Dungeness Power B Plant Station (EDF, 2012)
- Experimental study for the detection of trace concentrations of He and Ar in gas mixtures by LIBS (AWE, 2007)
- An experimental investigation into the use of LIBS to remotely determine the composition of liquid metal (Corus, 2002)
- Experimental investigations on the Beryllium detection in sapphires (various projects since 2005)
Non-LIBS
- A literature survey on available and emerging technologies for remote temperature measurements (British Energy Generation Ltd, 2002)
- An experimental investigation to assess the feasibility of fibre-optic laser cleaning of copper conductors within a nuclear power station turbine generator
