Common Fields of Handheld Refractometers
1. Food and beverage:
Simply squeeze a small amount of juice directly onto the refractometer prism to detect the ripeness of fresh fruit such as grapes and tomatoes. OPTi refractometers are widely used in the manufacture of jams, marmalades, syrups and other products with high sugar content and can quickly detect moisture in honey directly in the hive. Additionally, it is ideal for testing finished fruit juices and other non-alcoholic beverages.
Scales include: Brix, °Butyro, High Fructose Syrup, Salinity, Moisture in Honey, etc.
2. Beer and wine:
From home breweries to small and large breweries, our refractometers have been helping brewers for many years. In the field of beer, refractometers are used to measure the wort and alcohol content before fermentation. We supply OPTi refractometers to vineyards to verify grape ripeness before harvest, assess sugar content and measure alcohol content at the end of production.
Scales include: Brix, wort specific gravity, Baume, possible alcohol, Oslo, etc.
3. Industry:
Industrial scales cover a wide range of applications. A common scale used in industry is percent ethylene glycol, which is especially useful for engineers working on air conditioning systems, heat exchangers, and even pasteurizers. When using the Brix scale, refractometers can be used for fire fighting foams and industrial coolants. In the aviation industry, the concentration of aircraft anti-icing fluid needs to be determined.
Scales include: Brix, RI, % Calcium Chloride, % Ethanol, % Ethylene Glycol, etc.
4. Automobile industry:
Refractometers are capable of detecting coolant (measureable at frost protection temperatures in °F or °C) and battery acid as well as automotive urea (DEF) concentrations, making them ideal for automotive service centers, garages, automakers and Ideal for fleet managers. Keep your vehicle running safely and smoothly with OPTi.
Scales include: Brix, RI, specific gravity of sulfuric acid, diesel exhaust fluid, etc.
5. Benefits and life sciences:
Provides veterinarians and farmers with a variety of scales for testing colostrum, blood and urine samples collected from animals. With clear and accurate readings from only a small drop of sample, the OPTi refractometer is ideal for measuring samples that are often difficult to obtain, even with colostrum.
Scales include: Brix, RI, colostrum quality, urine specific gravity, serum protein, etc.
