Thermo Scientific ARL OPTIM`X WDXRF: The Smart Fuel Analyzer

WDXRF is the petroleum industry’s preferred technique for a broad range of fuel and lubricant elemental analysis. This technique offers:

• Complete compliance with ASTM D 2622, D 4951 and others
• Excellent repeatability
• High degree of flexibility in terms of measurement of analytical lines, background positions and internal references
• High dynamic range (sub-ppm to 100%)

The Thermo Scientific ARL OPTIM’X, a wavelength dispersive XRF spectrometer with innovative SmartGonio™, is configured to cover all elements from F to U.

The ARL OPTIM’X is ideally suited for areas such as refineries, central labs or outside service labs in petroleum and petrochemical industries. It offers a cost effective analytical solution for dedicated applications, like:

•  Sulphur analysis in petrochemical products (oils, gasoline, fuels, diesel, naphta,..) according to ISO and ASTM standard methods

The performance of the ARL OPTIM’X easily exceeds even today’s most stringent regulations for ultra-low S content, less than 10 ppm!

• Additive elements (Ca, Zn, P, Mg, Mo, etc.) in a wide range of lubricant products

Equipped with Petroil Quant, a pre-calibration program that facilitates quantitative analysis for a number of elements, ARL OPTIM’X with SmartGonio is best suited for key elements such as sulfur (S) and chlorine (Cl) in fuels and additional elements in lubricants and heavy distillates. It is the most cost effective solution for all laboratories dealing with petrochemical products.

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