Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X900 XRF Spectrometer

The ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer is a robust WDXRF analyzer with XRD capability. Due to dual sample loading and fast analysis, it provides quick, precise elemental composition results. Its reliable design maximizes productivity and instills confidence in its results by keeping up with modern metals, cement, and mining production and process control requirements.

Elemental analysis is the foundation of the metals, cement, and minerals and mining industries. The ability to rapidly and precisely determine the elements contained in raw materials is crucial to those industries' capacity to guarantee the quality of their output. The best tool for process control and XRF elemental analysis is the ARL X900 Spectrometer.

The ARL X900 sequential/simultaneous wavelength-dispersive XRF Spectrometer quickly produces reliable and precise elemental analysis results, regardless of the process control requirements. It provides maximum dependability and durability through robust design principles engineered to withstand demanding industrial environments.

The ARL X900 Spectrometer's analytical core, designed with the inherently safe “tube above” geometry, is housed in a vacuum chamber that ensures highly stable analytical conditions. This stability reduces the need for unplanned interventions and provides exceptional short- and long-term consistency, both essential for accurate analytical results.

ARL X900 Simultaneous/Sequential XRF Spectrometer. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Production Process & Analytics

Specifications

Source: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Production Process & Analytics

Application Domains

• Cement: Free lime, raw meal, clinker, slags, limestone and dolomite, etc.
• Mining and minerals: Soils, sediments, rocks, etc.
• Metals: Super-alloys, titanium alloys, cobalt alloys, ferroalloys, alu-bath, direct reduced iron, cast irons, steels, brasses, bronzes, copper alloys, aluminum alloys, zinc alloys, tin alloys, magnesium alloys, nickel alloys
• Other: Ceramics, glasses, polymers, contract laboratories

Features

• Combined sequential and simultaneous WDXRF capabilities, providing unparalleled speed and flexibility in analysis
• Able to analyze elements at concentrations between a few parts per million and 100 %
  • Flexibility using a goniometer for sequential analysis from B to Am
  • Ultra-fast simultaneous analysis using monochromators with fixed channels

• Compact XRD offers two methods in a single device for additional crystalline phase analysis capabilities
• Robust instrument design, with tube above geometry and a single analysis chamber, provides maximum reliability
• The "LoVap technology" X-ray tube supplies outstanding long-term stability and outstanding analytical performance
• The fast dual-sample loader improves throughput by minimizing dead time between measurements
• Factory calibrations facilitate immediate utilization for a variety of applications
• Analysis results for unknown samples are provided by Thermo Scientific™ UniQuant Standardless analysis in a matter of minutes
• All the features required for data management, instrument control, calibration, instrument setup, and diagnostics are included in OXSAS Analytical Software, allowing for nearly limitless analytical flexibility and capacity
• Automatic, unattended operation is possible around the clock with optional automation features

Efficiency and Flexibility

The dual-sample loader optimizes throughput by minimizing deadtime between samples, leading to quicker analysis and increased productivity. While one sample is being analyzed, the next set can be loaded, allowing for sequential and simultaneous analysis within a single spectrometer. This parallel operation further enhances time efficiency. The system can be configured with a compact XRD analyzer, up to two goniometers, and as many as 32 fixed channels.

Automation and Software

Automation is available to boost sample throughput, enhance repeatability, and enable operations to meet time constraints and more stringent product specifications without incurring higher overhead costs. Every automation solution is made to satisfy the user’s unique needs. The analytical software Thermo Scientific OXSAS is used with the ARL X900 Spectrometer.

Thanks to its simplicity, flexibility, and power, OXSAS Software is easy to use regardless of the requirements. It makes it easy to define and complete tasks, no matter how complex. Automated control allows for unsupervised analysis, and programming can guarantee priority sample support.

The ARL X900 Spectrometer has several features that improve process control in various ways:

• EasyOXSAS has a simple interface for efficient routine analysis
• Various customizable online processing functions, with manual or automatic application
• Real on-line integrated statistical process control
• SCT Manager, which gives an overview of the analytical capabilities of the instrument and each method at any given time by providing the status and history of setting up samples, control samples, and type standards

Analysis Users Can Rely On

The ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer offers exceptional robustness and reliability. With support from Thermo Fisher Scientific, it is set to establish itself as the industry standard for elemental analysis. Its customizable configuration and calibrations tailored to fit each industrial process enable users to focus entirely on product quality.