Financial losses to operators and insurers can easily run to many millions of dollars.
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This paper describes two such instruments from SPECTRO Analytical Instruments, the SPECTRO xSORT hand-held metals analyzer, the SPECTROTEST mobile emission spectrometer and the portable metal analyzer SPECTROPORT, and their application to the analysis of aluminum alloys. Laboratory analysis is sometimes not feasible or necessary and expensive and can involve unacceptable delays.īut modern mobile and portable analyzers are available that can handle the necessary analyses on site to provide accurate and positive material identification even when used by non-specialist operators. It is therefore in the best interest of the recycler to identify input material and separate the various grades before processing. Many specialized aluminum alloys have been developed for applications such as aviation and the automotive industry and these command premium prices, both as new material and scrap. There are two major reasons for this: firstly, aluminum alloys are particularly amenable to recycling and can be recycled many times without losing their properties and secondly, huge energy savings are possible as recycling uses only 5% of the energy required to extract and refine new aluminum. Recycling aluminum alloys is beneficial both financially and environmentally and has become a major industry in its own right.
The SPECTROTEST also offers the option of automated operation for high sample volumes. In spark mode, the SPECTROTEST’s analysis of carbon phosphorous and sulfur are potential applications in addition to the identification of duplex steels using the nitrogen content. This arc spark spectrometer is even able to identify low alloy steel with the carbon content during the rapid arc excitation mode. A probe with an integrated UV optic is available for special measuring applications it can also be utilized with arc excitation. The light, thin probe is quickly converted between arc excitation and spark excitation (arc spark OES). The complex arc spark spectrometer design offers many ergonomic advantages for safe and fatigue-free onsite operation. The new readout system and iCAL 2.0 diagnostics software upgraded the SPECTROTEST and allows users perform a single-sample standardization (in less than 5 minutes) at the start of the day’s testing and the iCAL diagnostics now helps to maintain the same standardization, regardless of most temperature shifts. This mobile metal analyzer flaunts its superior performance especially when exact metal analysis is required, when materials are difficult to identify or when there is a large number of samples to be tested. The SPECTROTEST is a mobile arc spark spectrometer ideal for many applications in the metal producing, processing, and recycling industries.
No compromise: high resolution optical system for probably widest element range (even N, Li, Na), all elements necessary for a complete metal analysis on the spot are available.
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