15 years of Hilase
A message from the CEO

Dear Online Gas Analyser User,

First of all my colleagues and I are pleased to welcome you to Hilase's website. We appreciate that you devote some of your precious time to reading this message, because we know how busy you are. Your measuring instruments must work 24/7 and they must indicate immediately whenever any of the monitored analyte concentrations is off the limit. There is a lot at stake because the monitored process is complicated, false alarms result in a waste of vast amounts of money and the regulatory concentration limits are continuously being tightened.

For all these reasons it is not surprising that when Hilase entered this very competitive market in 2004, the online gas analyser user community was rather sceptical: we not only came from a country without a proven track record in gas analytical instrumentation, but we also started to promote our photoacoustic solution, a measurement method that had been hardly applied in a demanding industrial environment before. Yet, this community responded positively: there were pioneering professionals who were eager to test our instruments and who quickly understood the advantages of the photoacoustic method such as high sensitivity, outstanding selectivity, robustness and fast response time. Currently there are around 100 photoacoustic instruments built either by Hilase or by Hobre Instruments BV (our successor in the oil and natural gas industry) operating worldwide under tough industrial conditions. This success could not have been achieved without our experts' commitment to constant development.

Finally, looking forward to the next 15 years, we promise to maintain our firm commitment to and enthusiasm about photoacoustics. We will continue our cooperation with the University of Szeged for new scientific ideas and Videoton Plc. for engineering support with the sole goal of serving you with ever-improving instruments.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. Zoltán Bozóki

July, 2017

Identifier number of the project: GINOP-1.3.1-15-2016-00429

Beneficiary: HILASE Fejlesztő, Gyártó, Szolgáltató és Kereskedelmi Kft.

Project title: Support of the participation of Hilase Ltd. on foreign exhibitions for the sake of exporting its own developed aerosol measuring instrument.

The amount of contractual support: 888 178 Ft

The rate of support: 50%

The planned termination date of the project: 09.01.2017.

Presentation of the project’s content: Hilase Kft., founded in 2004, develops and sells laser based concentration measuring instruments. It is specialised for developing, prototyping and manufacturing instruments which measures the concentration of gases and aerosols based on photoacoustic detection principle on various application areas. Between 2013-2015 Hilase Kft. developed a new type of instrument which is capable to monitor atmospheric aerosol. The goal of this project is the foreign exhibition of this newly developed instrument in order to initiate its export.

To achieve this goal we intend to participate on the following exhibitions:

-    2017 in Zürich EAC conference organised by the European Aerosol Society

also in Zürich there will be the ETH-Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles exhibition organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Improvement of Water Vapour and Total Water Measuring Analyser in the Frame of IGAS Project

The project resulted in a highly precise, compact, measuring instrument (Hilase-Hygro) with fast response time, capable of measuring water vapour and total water content. The development work was focused on decreasing the size of the instrument and ensuring long-term operation without supervision. The objective of the project was to advance a gas analyser for measuring the water vapour and total water content of atmospheric air, capable of operating on airplanes. The project was realised between 28.01.2013. and 31.12.2015. For the realisation of this project 2.272.062 HUF was supported for the company by the BONUS HU fund of the Research and Technology Innovation Fund.

August, 2015

A consortium led by Hilase Ltd. – including Videoton Holding ZRt, University of Szeged and the Pannon University (Veszprém) – successfully finished the project on “Development of a novel type of air-quality measuring instrument for real-time monitoring of the degree of aerosol hazard” (identifier: GOP-1.1.1-11-2012-0114). The photoacoustic instrument developed during this project is capable of measuring chemical properties of aerosol based on their optical absorption, and able to monitor the degree of aerosol hazard real-time. The new product is commercially available even as standalone or equipped with optional thermodenuder.

Hilase at Laser World of PHOTONICS June, 2015

October, 2014

A consortium which is led by Hilase Ltd. and also includes Videoton Holding ZRt, University of Szeged and the Pannon University (Veszprém) won a project (identifier: GOP-1.1.1-11-2012-0114) on “Development of a novel type of air-quality measuring instrument for real-time monitoring of the degree of aerosol hazard”. The project will last till middle of 2015 and Hilase aims to commercialise a photoacoustic instrument developed during this project and expects it to be one of its main business in the coming years.

February, 2014

In 2013, Hilase Ltd. founded a daughter company, which was acquired in February 2014 by Hobré Instruments B.V, a world-wide recognised oil and gas company, based on The Netherlands. The new company Hobré Laser Technology Ltd. operates at Szeged as a subsidiary of Hobré Instruments B.V. and its primary business activity is the production of explosion proof photoacoustic analysers for measuring on-line H₂S, CO₂ and H₂O concentration in gaseous streams for the natural gas and oil industry.

Now, that the spin-off is completed, Hilase Ltd. is focusing again on its primary business activity of finding new application areas for its photoacoustic

analysers by performing the necessary application specific developments after which these analysers can gain

a sizeable market share on the targeted new application areas. The successful spin-off of the Hobré Laser Technology Ltd. makes us confident about the repeated success of our efforts.

October, 2013 

Membrane permeation testing facility of Hilase is now extended to CO2 and H2S measurements at high pressures and high temperatures

For several years, Hilase routinely performs methane permeation measurements on polymer samples for the rubber, the polymer and the oil and gas industry. As a result of our latest development, permeation testing facility of Hilase is now extended to carbon-dioxide and hydrogen-sulphide measurements.

August, 2013

R&D Project closing event

On 29.08.2013 Hilase held the closing event of the R&D project "Improving the measurement accuracy of diode laser based photoacoustic hydrogen-sulphide concentration measuring instruments" (GOP-1.1.1-09/1-2010-0075). The project started in June 2010 and it was co-funded by the European Union and the New Széchenyi Plan of the Hungarian Government.

June, 2013

R&D Project Completed

Hilase successfully completed the R&D project called "Improving the measurement accuracy of diode laser based photoacoustic hydrogen-sulphide concentration measuring instruments" (GOP-1.1.1-09/1-2010-0075).The project started in June 2010 and it was co-funded by the European Union and the New Széchenyi Plan of the Hungarian Government. A project closing event will be held at 10 o’clock on 29.08.2013, in Videoton Irodaház (Budapest).

April, 2013

Hilase received recognition for innovation from the Hungarian Association for Innovation

Hilase Ltd's tender of a laser based photoacoustic instrument used for the measurement of hydrogen sulphide and water vapour content of natural gas received special recognition from the evaluation committee of the XXI. Hungarian Innovation Grand Prize. 

 January, 2013

The IAGOS for the GMES Atmospheric Service (IGAS, EU FP7) project has started on 01.01.2013. http://www.igas-project.org.