This site was designed to give a general overview of the capabilities of the Marquardt Group at the University of Washington. Our multidisciplinary group consists of Chemists, Analytical Chemists, Chemometricians and Engineers, each with a unique perspective on the challenges of process analysis and control.
The Marquardt lab has a proven understanding of the development of new measurements, instrumentation and integrated systems for continuous real-time chemical, biological and environmental analysis. Our focus is the development of new sampling systems to improve the interface between a process analyzer and the sample stream of interest. Whereby greatly improving both the reproducibility and accuracy of real-time measurements. Another focus of our lab is the development of multivariate statistical modeling approaches for optimization and control of a variety of industrial processes. Our group is also heavily involved in the design, development and implementation of novel, fast and reversible optical sensors for online monitoring of chemical, biological, medical and environmental processes. These sensors, are incorporated into systems that are based on a multitude of spectroscopic techniques (including Raman, FT-IR, fluorescence, NIR and UV-Vis) to perform real-time analyses for improved process understanding and control. The overall goal of our research is to better understand the optical sampling characteristics of various spectroscopic techniques to improve measurement precision and accuracy for better modeling and control of industrial processes.
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