Measurement for Product Characterisation
The School is developing novel approaches for product characterisation, based on the analysis and interpretation of spectroscopic signals. The research can be sub-divided into three areas, physics-based, data-based and the conjunction of the two approaches. Significant contributions to both the academic and industrial communities have materialised. For example:
- Through understanding the physical theories of light propagation, the most comprehensive data to-date of optical properties of human tissue in the NIR wavelength region has been generated.
- A new physics-based chemometric methodology has resulted in the better understanding of particulate systems.
- A framework has been produced that realises simultaneously, the automatic selection of informative spectral regions and the building of a robust calibration model from lean data sets. This latter research has been implemented on a GlaxoSmithKline pilot scale fermentation process.