ARL PERFORM’X WDXRF spectrometer NEW from Thermo Fischer Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., introduces the Thermo Scientific ARL PERFORM’X X-ray fluorescence spectrometer for advanced materials characterization. It integrates standard elemental analysis capabilities with mapping and small spot analysis to create a solution that offers unmatched versatility and performance for the analysis of any solid or liquid sample.

Designed for analytical laboratories in areas as diverse as geochemistry, chemical, petrochemical, materials science, contract laboratories and process control, the system’s speed, reliability and flexibility make it ideally suited to solving composition problems in demanding industrial process and quality applications. With dual sample loading, it is able to process more than 60 samples per hour in a typical multi-element analysis case, offering rapid and precise analysis of up to 84 elements. The system also provides the highest standards of safety with an innovative sample recognition capability that ensures easy and safe loading of solids and liquids. In addition, the instrument offers unrivalled long-term stability and repeatability of results.

The ARL PERFORM’X system offers the ultimate in performance and more importantly in the petroleum laboratory - safety. It has been designed with protection in mind when running liquids. The most expensive consumable in any XRF system is the X-ray tube and one spill can cost thousands of dollars in repairs and replacement parts. With the tube-end protection cap, any liquid from a film rupture will fall on the cap and not the tube window resulting in the cap may need replacing but the tube remains intact. With the standard 50 micron Be tube window light element sensitivity is guaranteed and placing the 15 micron Be end cap over the tube still allows better sensitivity at 65 microns than the industry standard of 75 microns or greater. The ARL PERFORM’X also contains an exposure time feature in which any sample analyzing for over x minutes will be automatically removed as a safety precaution. This prevents any analytical routine running too long and again resulting in a film break. These features plus others such as UniQuant® or PetroilQuant™ make this instrument one of the most versatile and safest XRF systems.

This highly precise system offers a choice of analyzed area size from 35 mm to 0.5 mm. As well as measuring the standard chemical composition of samples, it facilitates elemental small spot analysis enabling analysts to pinpoint focus on specimen sections as small as 0.5 mm, significantly improving the versatility of analyses. Advanced X-ray mapping and sample visualization capabilities enable users to identify and characterize inhomogeneities, such as elemental inclusions, defects and gradients in samples previously unidentifiable.

The ARL PERFORM’X comes as standard with the latest version of the Thermo Scientific OXSAS software. Users also benefit from a synoptic panel that mimics real-time operation and internal functioning of the instrument on a separate display screen enabling users to visually monitor the status of their analyses.

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