Abstract: A device includes a computing unit connectable to a Raman spectrometer, refractometer, and database. Data sets represent fluids, active substances and/or active substance combinations. The device can subject a fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a Raman spectroscopic measurement. The computing unit can identify the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination as Raman active or Raman inactive. The device can also subject the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a refractive index measurement. The computing unit can compare the second result with the first result to obtain a final result in the event of a detected Raman activity, and adopt the second result as the final result in the event of a detected Raman inactivity. The computing unit can compare the final result with the data sets to identify an incorrect/unintended fluid, active substance, or active substance combination.

Abstract: A device includes a computing unit connectable to a Raman spectrometer, refractometer, and database. Data sets represent fluids, active substances and/or active substance combinations. The device can subject a fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a Raman spectroscopic measurement. The computing unit can identify the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination as Raman active or Raman inactive. The device can also subject the fluid, active substance, or active substance combination to a refractive index measurement. The computing unit can compare the second result with the first result to obtain a final result in the event of a detected Raman activity, and adopt the second result as the final result in the event of a detected Raman inactivity. The computing unit can compare the final result with the data sets to identify an incorrect/unintended fluid, active substance, or active substance combination.

Abstract: The invention relates to identifying not easily volatilized substances, in particular hazardous material, in a gas phase. A measurement cell and gas supply installations connected to the measurement cell are heated, and a plasmonic surface arranged in the measurement cell is temperature-controlled such that the plasmonic surface has a lower temperature than the measurement cell and the gas supply installations. The gas phase is guided through the gas supply installations into the measurement cell such that the gas phase reaches the plasmonic surface. Substances adsorbed out of the gas phase on the plasmonic surface are analyzed by an optical process. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy or surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy may be used. Selectivity can be increased by combining both methods. Selectivity can be additionally increased by using a gas detector, preferably an ion-mobility spectrometer. Thus the false alarm rate is reduced without a loss of time.