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Process lnstrumentation The theme of the 1974 Analytical Summer Symposium, online process instrumentation, reminds us of still another frontier in analytical chemistry. We are accustomed to look toward physics for new principles on which measurement and characterization can be based. The instrumentation industry is alert to making specialized measurements and separation techniques available to the general analytical laboratory. The basic sciences, including the medical and biological sciences as well as the chemical sciences, have often provided not only problems to be solved by the analytical approach but also new developments for their solution. Applied sciences, such as agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, and material sciences represent frontiers of overlap between analytical methodology and problems requiring solutions. Equipment for process stream analysis and automation has long been regarded as the province of chemical engineering. The fact that, in most universities, chemical engineering and analytical chemistry are in different colleges has tended to discourage academic research cooperation between these disciplines. Instrument manufacturers have carried the brunt of the burden in introducing innovations into the field. Analytical research in recent years has increasingly emphasized the use of automation techniques in the laboratory. The minicomputer is used not only for data processing but for control and optimization of the measurement sequence. Industrial analytical chemists are in a good position to recognize problems in process stream analysis and to provide the analytical expertise for their solution. It is therefore appropriate that the symposium was co-chaired by Dr. Frank W. Karasek from academe and Dr. Richard A. Hagstrom from industry. It is also appropriate that most of the papers were from industry but the final session on the teaching of process analytical instrumentation stressed the importance of the academic scene. Altogether the symposium served to fill a gap and to encourage industry-academic cooperation in this important area.
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