Thermo Fisher Scientific will demonstrate its the Niton XL3 800 series and XL3 900 series analysers at Westec 2008, 31 March - 3 April, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, USA
The Niton XL3 800 series provides the fastest alloy grade identification and laboratory-quality composition analysis of metal alloys ever performed with a handheld XRF analyser, says Thermo Scientific.
Typical time for routine positive grade identification is less than two seconds - as much as four times faster than its previous generation instruments.
This significantly increases sample throughput and user productivity.
The Niton XL3t 900 offers immediate, nondestructive, laboratory-quality chemical analysis of aluminium, titanium and nickel alloys, as well as superalloys, stainless steel and other metals.
"The Niton XL3t contains the highest-powered X-ray tube ever offered in a handheld XRF analyser while providing advanced electronics that enable a host of new features.
"In fact, the XL3t 900 series, with its helium purge measurement head, takes the analytical capabilities of handheld XRF to a new level, all but eliminating the need for OES instrumentation in the field for analysis of magnesium, aluminium and silicon," said Jon Shein, Thermo Fisher Scientific's director of global marketing for the Niton analysers business unit.
"Increased base metal prices, combined with globalised trade in scrap metal, alloy stock and finished products, have increased the costs of alloy mix-ups to suppliers, distributors and industrial consumers.
"With our new instrument, Thermo Fisher Scientific is meeting the demand for faster, more accurate results".
Shein continued: "Most important to us is that customers benefit from instant, positive alloy grade identification and quick, simple report and certificate generation".
"The instrument can sometimes pay for itself just in recovery of material traceability - enabling unknown material to be used and converted to profit rather than being scrapped".
The Niton XL3 800 series is available in a range of configurations with an assortment of optional features and accessories.
It suits a wide variety of analytical needs for applications such as positive material identification (PMI) programmes, metal fabrication and manufacturing and scrap recycling.
The instruments incorporate 80MHz real-time digital signal processing and dual state-of-the-art embedded processors for computation, data storage, communication and other functions.
The X-ray tube-excited XL3t 800 features a 50kV, 2watt miniaturized X-ray tube with multiple multi-layer primary filters to provide optimised excitation for elements ranging from chlorine through the transuranic elements.
The XL3t can also be equipped with small-spot sample analysis, allowing users to switch between full area analysis for large samples and a 3mm small-spot to analyse small sample areas.
It offers the only fully-integrated and environmentally-sealed VIP tilting color touch-screen display for easy viewing of sample results in any position and under all lighting conditions.
In addition, all Niton analysers use third-generation lithium-ion batteries, providing the longest usage cycle of any portable XRF analyser.
