Category Archive

Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Environmental”

Residential lead paint consulting with SciAps

Diggity January 21, 2023 Environmental, News & Press, XRF

Working as a residential lead paint inspector or consultant? X-ray tubes now have more advantages than isotope-based analyzers for residential lead paint inspection. There's no better option than SciAps. For surface-by-surface testing of painted components, there’s no better option to ...

Academic Loaner: Environmental soils in NJ parks with SciAps XRF

Diggity April 4, 2022 Academic, Environmental, Independent Studies, XRF

SciAps most recent Academic Loaner Program story comes from Rutgers University, Newark, where researchers have detected an exceedance of heavy metals in the soil of local parks. Dr. Ashaki Rouff, an associate professor, and Suah Yekeh, a second year Ph.D. ...

Industry Driven: Heavy metals in NJ soils

Diggity April 4, 2022 Environmental, True Demo Stories, XRF

Fast and easy to use SciAps XRF is 'a lifesaver' in the field Recently, Dr. Ashaki Rouff, an associate professor, and Suah Yekeh, a second year Ph.D. student, in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark ...

How it works: SciAps X-550 Pb for residential lead paint

Diggity March 28, 2022 Environmental, News & Press, XRF

Finally, a lead paint analyzer that is both safe and accurate. Meet the the first and only non-isotope instrument ever to hold a PCS at all three levels of 1.0, 0.7 and 0.5 mg/cm2 — and no inconclusive tests. The ...

Handheld LIBS – The latest success story in portable analytical instrumentation

Diggity September 27, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Food and Ag, Geochemistry, LIBS, News & Press, REE and Strategic Metals

LIBS technology has migrated from an obscure laboratory analysis method to a mainstream field analytical technique in recent years. Read "Handheld LIBS – The latest success story in portable analytical instrumentation" by Don Sackett, SciAps CEO, in the recent edition ...

In-field chemistry everywhere with handheld LIBS

Diggity August 31, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Geochemistry, LIBS

Russell Harmon, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor, Department of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University Russell Harmon: A vision for the future of LIBS SciAps debuted the world’s first truly portable handheld only a few years ago, but ...

SciAps LIBS test method for fluorine in food packaging

Diggity August 21, 2021 ApNote, Environmental, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Field-portable handheld LIBS analyzers have expanded potential applications for in situ elemental analysis. They allow for rapid screening and quantification of any element in almost any matrix type. Since the 1940s, PFAS have been manufactured and used in a variety of industries around ...

What’s a little heatwave?

rickpick August 2, 2021 Environmental, News & Press, XRF

What’s a little heatwave? About an hour out of every day seeking shade for my XRF gun - but not anymore. Don’t sweat the field work. The SciAps X-555 Environmental analyzer is designed to work in tough conditions, even hot ...

Investigation of handheld LIBS in terms of heavy metal detection in contaminated soil

Diggity July 1, 2021 Academic, Environmental, Independent Studies, LIBS, News & Press

Study presented to Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Continental Environments, September 2020. Authors: Mehran Movahedrad, LafargeHolcim, Lyon, France; Cécile Fabre, University of Lorraine SciAps LIBS was used to perform heavy metals analysis in contaminated soil. Handheld LIBS simplifies the necessary qualitative and ...

SciAps X-555: Don’t sweat the field work

Diggity June 23, 2021 Environmental, News & Press, XRF

The X-555 doesn’t make compromises. It doesn’t compromise size for stability or heat dissipation. It doesn’t compromise speed for detection limits.Tim Johnson, SciAps business development for restricted substances and regulatory markets While soils regulations have been in play for decades, ...