SciAps Detector Protector Technology

When you buy a high-end X-ray gun, you expect to sort aluminum alloys, red metals like aluminum and silver bronzes, sulfur and phosphorus. However, the thin windows required to measure ultra-light elements like Mg, Al, Si offer minimal protection, especially when the user jams the analyzer into Gaylord boxes of turnings and blows out the detector. A common failure mode is either a weak protector that bows into the detector and breaks it, or a small chard that pokes through the mesh and strikes the detector window. A punctured detector is an expensive repair, so it’s understandable why recyclers are irritated by it.

That’s where SciAps DPT comes in.

SciAps DPT is both rigid (won’t flex into detector) and has a fine enough grid that turning chards must be less than 100 um (diameter of a human hair) to reach through the grid. The analyzer still works no matter how much a user jams the analyzer into turnings.

We didn’t compromise speed for toughness. Our analyzer with this new window is still the fastest analyzer on the market for any alloy, especially for aluminum alloys. It still measures as low as 0.3% Mg in 2 seconds. Mg in 6061 in 1 sec. This means you can still sort your aluminum alloys accurately and quickly. And continue to avoid those downgrades because you won’t mix 6063, 1100, 6061 and won’t have punctured detectors.