Patent ID: 6377343
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
A vessel system for the continuous monitoring of fluids in industrial processes by means of NIR spectroscopy, with a vessel that is disposed in a subassembly support and has a sample chamber with an inlet opening and an outlet opening as well as a beam path directed at a window of the sample chamber, characterized in that the subassembly support (2) is disposed in a housing (3) with a connecting armature (7, 8) that passes through the housing (3), wherein a first line is provided between a first connecting armature of the housing and the inlet opening of the sample chamber and a second line is provided between a second connecting armature of the housing and the outlet opening of the sample chamber and wherein the vessel can be removed as a subassembly from the subassembly support (2) and wherein the subassembly support (2) has optical subassemblies (17, 18, 53, 54) for the connection of light wave conductors (13, 14, 55, 56) for the purpose of coupling and decoupling radiation and wherein the subassembly support (2) is rigidly mounted in the housing (3) and wherein the vessel (19) is guided.