Portable X Ray Fluorescence

X ray fluorescence xrf technology is the gold standard for accurate nondestructive elemental analysis in a wide range of applications including cement metals mining petroleum chemicals environmental and food.

Portable x ray fluorescence. X ray fluorescence is the emission of characteristic secondary x rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded with high energy x rays or gamma rays. Portable x ray fluorescence works just like a bench top edxrf instrument but you can take it anywhere and conduct analysis outdoors on the assembly line in the mine or just about anywhere else you can imagine. Portable x ray fluorescence analyzers may contain one or more radioactive sources that bombard the target with gamma radiation. Throughout this document the term xfa shall be used to designate portable x ray fluorescence analyzers that contain radioactive sources.

The phenomenon is widely used for elemental analysis and chemical analysis particularly in the investigation of metals glass ceramics and building materials and for research in geochemistry forensic science archaeology and art objects such as paintings. Xrf is based on the principle that individual atoms when excited by an external energy source emit x ray photons of a characteristic energy or wavelength. Edxrf is the technology commonly used in portable x ray fluorescence analyzers. X ray fluorescence xrf spectrometry is an elemental analysis technique with broad application in science and industry.