Elemental analysis is crucial in heavy industry, where precision and efficiency are essential. It allows you to assess raw materials, monitor and adapt manufacturing processes, and produce uniform goods that meet the desired requirements. You will need a dependable device and reliable measurements to accomplish this.
Thermo Scientific ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
The Thermo Scientific™ ARL™ X900 XRF Spectrometer meets these needs. It is based on decades of experience and was developed from the ground up for demanding industrial applications, delivering fast and reliable elemental analysis findings.
With the ARL X900 spectrometer's strong performance and exceptional uptime, paired with Thermo Fisher Scientific’s extensive service support, you can be confident that your production will never be jeopardized.
Introduction
Thermo Fisher’s experience with thousands of WDXRF spectrometers in industrial settings has shown the importance of creating a reliable system.
The ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer is designed to function in severe environments such as metals, mining, and cement industries. It builds on the established concepts of its predecessors to achieve even better performance.
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Highlights
- The robust design includes a tube-above geometry and a single analysis chamber under vacuum, resulting in high instrument uptime.
- The large sample changer and twin sample loading ensure efficient sample throughput.
- Configuration options for simultaneous and sequential WDXRF provide unparalleled analytical versatility and speed.
- Compact XRD offers two analysis techniques in one instrument.
- Thermo Fisher’s turn-key solutions are tailored to the metals, cement, and mining industries.
Discover the Thermo Scientific ARL X900 spectrometer, the ideal solution for your industry needs.
Designed to Keep You Up and Running
Instrument dependability is critical in production environments where elemental analysis data is used for process control, production, and quality assurance. With the ARL X900 spectrometer, Thermo Fisher continues to provide long-lasting and reliable analytical solutions for industry.
This is mirrored in the instrument design.
- The tube-above geometry is inherently safe. The instrument's X-ray tube is above the sample, protecting it from debris and breakage, ensuring high uptime and reliability.
- The large vacuum chamber protects the analytical core, X-ray tube, and key electronics while maintaining stable environmental conditions.
- Simultaneous XRF analysis with fixed-channel monochromators eliminates the need for additional moving parts and P10 gas (for elements greater than Na).
- Thermo Fisher’s gear-free goniometer design for sequential XRF analysis eliminates wear, ensuring high angular reproducibility and precision throughout its lifetime.
Cross-section of the ARL X900 spectrometer, showing the instrument components that ensure high uptime and stable analytical results. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
Accelerate Time to Results with Higher Speed and Performance
Faster analysis allows laboratories to process more samples in the same amount of time, increasing output. In addition, the same number of samples can be evaluated more thoroughly, increasing the accuracy of the results.
The ARL X900 spectrometer combines several key aspects to attain exceptional efficiency, including:
- The 5GN+ X-ray tube and high-power generators produce increased X-ray intensity, enabling faster measurements and lower detection limits.
- Two fifth-generation gearless goniometers enable quick sequential analysis and can function in tandem with up to 20 fixed-channel monochromators.
- Monochromators with up to 32 fixed channels can test dedicated elements simultaneously, providing rapid and reliable results with reduced detection limits for demanding applications.
- The dual-sample loader prepares the next sample in a batch while the measurement is running. This decreases dead time between measurements and improves sample throughput.
- The SCX fixed channels use a novel detection mechanism to achieve remarkable accuracy of critical matrix elements, enhancing analytical precision.
Sequencing of sample loading: single-sample loader (top, grey) vs. ARL X900 dual-sample loader (bottom, red). Time estimated for analyzing four metallic samples with 60-second measurements. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
Combining sequential and simultaneous WDXRF provides unmatched flexibility and speed. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
Customized Solutions for Precise Analysis
Manufacturing processes require elemental analysis capabilities corresponding to carefully controlled operations and great product quality.
Thermo Fisher understands the necessity of a bespoke solution that delivers precise and dependable analytical performance tailored to individual requirements.
With the ability to configure the ARL X900 spectrometer, Thermo Fisher ensures users have the proper tools to match requirements and unlock the full value of their resources.
- Maximum speed: The ARL X900 spectrometer includes fixed channels for simultaneous XRF analysis, offering fast analysis, high sensitivity, and rapid processing to suit your demanding throughput requirements.
- Flexibility in analysis: Configured with a goniometer, the ARL X900 spectrometer provides sequential XRF analysis of a sequence of elements, enabling flexibility to fulfill a broad range of analytical needs and adapt to changing requirements.
- Advanced analysis capabilities: The ARL X900 spectrometer, with its compact XRD system, combines two important techniques in one instrument. This allows qualitative and quantitative study of crystalline phases, enabling deeper insights into material composition and structure.
ARL X900 spectrometer integrates fixed channels for simultaneous analysis and a goniometer for sequential WDXRF analysis, combining two essential techniques within a single instrument. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
Tailored Solutions for Analytical Challenges
Thermo Fisher’s turnkey and standardless analytical solutions are intended to produce dependable results. They are ready to use immediately, having been pre-configured and calibrated by factory professionals.
Turn-Key Solutions
- Thermo Fisher pre-configures and calibrates the ARL X900 spectrometers with CRM samples, making them ready for immediate use.
- Thermo Fisher’s specialists optimize analytical conditions, parameters, and calibrations for high accuracy and speed, resulting in repeatable, standardized, and high-quality results.
- Thermo Fisher’s ready-to-use applications are trusted globally in demanding industrial environments such as metallurgy, cement, and mining.
Standardless Analysis with UniQuant Package
- The factory-calibrated standardless analytical package is ready for use immediately.
- Quickly obtain quantitative elemental analysis results for unknown samples using F-Am.
- This technique is suitable for non-production samples, unknown materials, and failure analysis.
- Thermo Scientific UniQuant Software's peak-by-peak counting ensures high accuracy and detection of low concentration levels.
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Whether it is optimizing cement production, analyzing various metals and alloys, or exploring minerals and ores, each industry, production site, and process presents its own set of challenges and priorities.
The ARL X900 spectrometer combines a dependable design with dedicated analytical configurations to ensure the ideal match for your specific requirements, unlocking the full potential of your operations.
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Cement |
Minerals and mining |
Alu bath, DRI |
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| Dual loading* |
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Fastest time to result, lowest deadtime between samples |
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Continuous unattended operation, increasing output |
| Simultaneous XRF |
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Highest precision, lowest limit of detection (LoD) and no moving parts for maximum speed and reliability |
| SCX detectors |
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Improved accuracy and precision for matrix elements |
| Sequential XRF |
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Fast goniometer for maximum measurement time; adaptable to changing requirements, and backup for fixed channel monochromators |
| Compact, integrated XRD system |
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Complementary analytical capability for Direct Reduced Iron (DRI), Fe2+ in sinters, aluminum smelting bath ratio, clinker phases, quartz in raw meal, limestone addition, degree of calcination in cyclones, … |
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Turn-key solutions delivering reliable results from day one |
| Tube above |
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Protected from sample breaking and any debris or drillings |
| Robust and stable instrument |
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Maximizes instrument uptime and delivers reliable analytical results |
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Speed & performance |
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Versitility & solutions |
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Reliability |
OXSAS Analytical Software—Simple, Flexible, and Powerful
The Thermo Scientific™ OXSAS™ Analytical Software controls the ARL X900 spectrometer, offering unlimited analytical capacity and flexibility. It includes features for data management, instrument control, calibration, set-up, and diagnostics. OXSAS software is intended to meet your needs throughout the instrument's lifetime.
Routine Operation Made Easy
- User-friendly interface reduces training time and increases productivity.
- Simple EasyOXSAS interface for efficient routine analysis.
- Easily create batch analyses with priority samples for high throughput environments.
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Limitless Analytical Capabilities
- The Analytical Assistant module and templates guide users through the process and optimize analytical parameters for accurate results.
- Multi-variable regression (MVR) program for calibration curves.
- A range of correction models was included to improve accuracy in multi-component matrices.
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Process Control at a Glance
- Effective monitoring and maintenance tools to maximize system uptime.
- Real on-line integrated Statistical Process Control (SPC) for efficient monitoring and optimization.
- SCT Manager to give a thorough overview of Setting-up Samples, Control samples, and Type standards, ensuring effective monitoring of instruments and procedures.
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Thermo Fisher Supports Users Across the Lifetime of their System
Global Service Logistics and Field Service Assistance
- No matter where you are, Thermo Fisher has you covered.
- Thermo Fisher runs a large global service logistics network, including central warehouses, regional hubs, and local stock sites. This network allows it to fulfill consumer needs quickly upon request.
- Thermo Fisher deploys a multi-level resource method to support each field service engineer, providing an extensive service network and the finest customer service.
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Service Solutions
- When users purchase a Thermo Fisher system, success becomes Thermo Fisher’s biggest priority.
- The servicing options are available at the time of instrument purchase, during the warranty term, and after the warranty period expires.
- From remote assistance to on-site service contract agreements, whether you require on-site repair or application support, Thermo Fisher’s service professionals are available to help.
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Benefits
- Improve productivity and sample throughput
- Maximize resources with Thermo Fisher’s diversified service solutions
- Increase uptime with Thermo Fisher’s quick resolution plan
- Receive expert guidance to make decisions that optimize instrument performance
- Increase production capacity to reduce expenses
- Receive customized instructions to fully utilize your ARL X900 spectrometer
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Are you Ready to Unlock the Power of the ARL X900 Spectrometer?
If you are interested in how the ARL X900 spectrometer can accelerate measurements, boost laboratory efficiency, and obtain exact results, it is time to take the next step. Discover the instrument configuration that best fits your industrial application and optimize your analytical processes.
Thermo Scientific's ARL X900 Spectrometer Series:
ARL X900 spectrometer with 20-position rotation magazine. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
ARL X900 spectrometer with large XY magazine. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
ARL X900 spectrometer for SMS robotic automation. Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific - Elemental and Phase Analysis
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