ARL X900 Sequential/Simultaneous XRF Spectrometer

ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer

In the world of heavy industry, where precision and efficiency are paramount, elemental analysis plays a vital role. It enables you to analyze raw materials, monitor and adjust manufacturing processes, and produce uniform products of desired specifications. But to achieve all this, you need an instrument you can rely on and measurements you can trust. The Thermo Scientific ARL X900 Sequential/Simultaneous XRF Spectrometer is the answer to your needs. Built on decades of experience and designed from the ground up for demanding industrial applications, it delivers reliable and precise elemental analysis results quickly. With the robust performance and exceptional uptime of the ARL X900 XRF Spectrometer combined with our comprehensive service support, you can trust that your production will never be compromised.

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ARL X900 Spectrometer features

The ARL X900 Spectrometer delivers reliable and precise elemental analysis results with excellent efficiency and performance. With faster analysis, laboratories can process a higher number of samples within the same time frame, boosting productivity. Alternatively, the same number of samples can be analyzed in greater depth, thus improving the accuracy of results.  Benefits include:

  • Reliability: Safe “tube-above” geometry and robust design for high instrument uptime in demanding industrial settings.
  • Accuracy and precision: WDXRF elemental analysis over a wide dynamic range from ppm to 100%, and from B to Am.
  • Efficiency:  Large sample magazines and dual-loading, combined with sophisticated detection systems enable exceptional sample throughput.
  • Turn-key solutions: Established calibrations covering wide concentration ranges ensure trusted results in the metals, cement, and mining industries.
  • Analytical performance: The ARL X900 Spectrometer combines simultaneous and sequential WDXRF elemental analysis with X-ray diffraction in a single instrument.

ARL X900 Spectrometer benefits

ARL X900 Spectrometer: Reliable and robust elemental analysis for industry

The ARL X900 Spectrometer is built for continuous performance and dependable elemental analysis, incorporating robust design elements such as a large vacuum chamber to protect the detection system, a gearless goniometer, and inherently safe “tube-above” geometry that shields the X-ray tube from debris and accidental sample breakage. This design ensures high instrument uptime and reliability, making it essential in production environments where process control, production, and quality assurance rely on precise elemental analysis. With global service coverage and durable construction, the ARL X900 Spectrometer minimizes unplanned interventions and maintains high analytical stability, underscoring our commitment to delivering robust analytical solutions for industry.

ARL X900 3D rendering of dual-sample loader, tube-above geometry, goinometer, monochromator

ARL X900 Spectrometer: Speed, throughput, and high sensitivity

The ARL X900 Spectrometer is designed to keep up with production demands through features like a dual-sample loader that increases throughput by reducing deadtime and a fast, gearless goniometer for sequential WDXRF analysis. Its fixed channels enable simultaneous XRF analysis with high sensitivity, helping to ensure the lowest limits of detection in the shortest time.

ARL X900 Spectrometer:  Turn-key solutions

The ARL X900 Spectrometer also supports automation and offers turn-key solutions tailored to the metals, cement, and mining industries. These pre-configured and calibrated solutions are ready to use from day one, delivering reliable results essential for critical decisions such as process control. Additionally, statistical process control (SPC) provides comprehensive system and process monitoring. Optimized by specialists, the ARL X900 Spectrometer helps to ensure the best accuracy and performance, delivering repeatable, high-quality results for unknown samples within minutes.

ARL X900 Spectrometer: Analytical flexibility and performance

The ARL X900 Spectrometer offers configurable technical solutions to fit your specific application needs, including simultaneous and sequential analysis, as well as XRD capabilities for phase analysis. With SCX detectors for fixed channels, the instrument helps to ensure even better accuracy on matrix elements. The combination of simultaneous and sequential WDXRF capabilities provides exceptional analytical flexibility and speed. Additionally, the compact XRD system enables qualitative and quantitative analysis of crystalline phases, offering deeper insights into material composition and structure. Configurable for customer-specific demands, the ARL X900 Spectrometer helps to ensure you have the right tools to meet your unique requirements and unlock the full value of your materials.

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ARL X900 Spectrometer software

Thermo Scientific OXSAS Analytical Software controls the ARL X900 Spectrometer and provides virtually unlimited analytical capacity and flexibility. Simple, flexible, and powerful OXSAS Software includes all the features needed for data management, instrument control, calibration, instrument set-up, and diagnostics. It is designed to meet your needs throughout the lifetime of the instrument.

 

OXSAS Software is easy to use, no matter what the requirements are. From simple tasks to complex functions, OXSAS allows jobs to be defined easily and performed quickly. Optional automation capabilities allow for unattended, around-the-clock operation, while programming helps to ensure support of priority samples.

Additional features include the intuitive EasyOXSAS interface for streamlined routine analysis; numerous customizable on-line processing functions, with manual or automatic application; real on-line integrated statistical process control (SPC); and an SCT (stability control technology) Manager that provides status and history of setting-up samples, control samples, and type standard. These features make it possible to see an overview of the analytical capability of the instrument and of each method at any time.

ARL X900 Spectrometer applications

The utility of the ARL X900 Spectrometer allows you to gain insight into the elemental makeup of your materials and can assist you in addressing the unique challenges specific to your industry or application. Whether dealing with metals and alloys, minerals and mining, cement, or glass and ceramics, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy provides the means to determine the chemical properties of materials for a wide array of uses.

XRF analysis of metals

The elemental composition of metals varies from grade-to-grade, corresponding to a wide variety of properties in terms of ductility, strength, weldability, and more. Highly reliable Thermo Scientific XRF spectrometers can be used to analyze the trace to percent element concentration levels of raw materials, slags, alloys, and coatings with accuracy and precision.

XRF analysis of cement

Thermo Scientific combined XRF-XRD spectrometers can be used to perform essential screening of incoming raw materials for the cement-making processes. They are also used to continuously monitor the composition of raw meal blends and clinkers to prevent process disruption and obtain suitable cement end products.

XRF spectroscopy for geology and mineral analysis

Thermo Scientific XRF spectrometers can help researchers understand the value of mineralogical samples by providing the precise elemental analysis required to quantify both economically important and undesirable compounds.

Elemental analysis of glass and ceramics

As process engineers manufacture glass and ceramics products, they need to combine the right components to develop products with outstanding end use properties. Thermo Scientific XRF solutions, particularly wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF), are used to help ensure that each individual ingredient is accounted for with the precise elemental percentage needed to create the desired final product.

ARL X900 Spectrometer support and service

Thermo Fisher Scientific maintains an extensive global service logistics network, including central warehouses, regional hubs, and local stock locations, enabling us to quickly fulfill customer needs. Our multi-level resource approach supports each field service engineer with a comprehensive service network to deliver the best customer service. From the moment you purchase a Thermo Scientific system, your success is our priority. Our service solutions are available at purchase, during the warranty period, and beyond, offering remote support, on-site service contracts, repairs, and application support. Our service plans provide quick issue resolution, reduced costs through increased production capability, and improved productivity with expert advice to maximize instrument performance.

 

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