Chromatography Market Profile: Process Chromatography
Process chromatography, in particular process gas chromatography (GC), is a well‑established technique within the oil and gas, refining, and petrochemical industry. The technique is generally used in process plants to determine product quality and yield.
Process chromatography, in particular process gas chromatography (GC), is a wellâestablished technique within the oil and gas, refining, and petrochemical industry. The technique is generally used in process plants to determine product quality and yield. Like most process analytical instruments, its primary role is to monitor conditions at critical points in the overall process. The investment for process GC instruments is typically justified by inherently providing data that would lead to an increase in a product’s yield.
There are three distinct categories of process GC systems. Process GC instruments are traditional GC instruments for rigorous process applications. Process GC instruments also include special-purpose (often rackâmounted) GC instruments used for selected applications such as monitoring volatile organics, or VOCs, in environmental monitoring and occupational safety and health. British thermal unit (BTU) systems are dedicated process GC instruments used to measure BTU or calorific value of natural gas. The final category is process liquid chromatography (LC), which includes high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) systems and ion chromatography (IC) instruments used for process analytics.
With the trend towards digital solutions and the Internet of Things (IoT), plants are learning more about their processes and instruments that are increasing overall performance and reducing operating costs. New plants are installing modern process GC instruments that do more than just increase product’s yield; these instruments can also play a role in improving the overall plant operation by helping to prevent unscheduled downtimes, enabling remote monitoring, and providing system diagnostics.
The total demand for process chromatographs was measured at more than $200 million in 2017, including instruments, parts and consumables, and service. Service continues to play a significant role in the market and is expected to outpace instrument sales. North America and Europe account for about half of the market, fueled by robust demand for BTU analyzers. North American and (Western) European markets will be characterized by ongoing replacement and upgrade sales to change outdated units in the installed base that do not include the most current communication and diagnostic functions, or that are obsolete and no longer supported by the supplier. Leading suppliers of process chromatographs include ABB, Emerson, Siemens, and Yokogawa.
Market size and growth estimates were adopted from TDA’s Industry Data, a database of technology market profiles and benchmarks, as well as the 2018 Instrument Industry Outlook report from independent market research firm Top-Down Analytics. For more information, contact Glenn Cudiamat, general manager, at +1 (888) 953 5655 or glenn.cudiamat@tdaresearch.com. Glenn is a market research expert who has been covering the analytical instrumentation industry for more than two decades.
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