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Explore insights, applications, and stories from the field using handheld XRF, LIBS, VisNIR, and portable benchtop analyzers across scrap recycling, mining, geochemistry, forensics, and more.
Handheld LIBS used to measure beryllium in nuclear waste
The Difficult Waste Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, contractor to the United States Department of Energy, recently demonstrated the use of handheld LIBS analyzers in elemental characterization of radioactive wastes.
First Gas uses SciAps LIBS for CE in pipeline repairs
Analyses of CRMs before and after the pipeline measurements shows excellent consistency with their respective data sheets. This indicates that the LIBS calibration is accurate and that the calibration is not drifting during the measurement period.
The best handheld XRF for the job
What’s the difference between the premium X-550 and the workhorse X-505 models? The answer is simple: Speed on low atomic number elements such as Mg, Al, Si, P and S.
Going for Gold with SciAps XRF
If you're going for gold mining and exploration, discover the SciAps X Series. Industry-Leading Performance for Critical Gold Pathfinders: Cu, As, Ag, Sb.
Positive Metals Identification (PMI) - XRF vs LIBS
Handheld instruments have become very popular due to their small form factor, portability and ability to rapidly identify materials non-destructively without dragging them back to the lab. The question is often asked, which technique is better?
Optimisation of fast quantification of fluorine content using handheld LIBS
LIBS provides a multi-element detection that has been successfully used to quantify fluorine using either elementary or CaF molecular bands.
Expanding Global Soil Management with SciAps Handheld LIBS
Over the past four years, Dr. Daniel Riebe from the University of Potsdam, Germany, has been working in a scientific field far from his background in physical chemistry. Riebe is part of a long-term, government-funded project which will help shape the future of food and farming: working with LIBS to analyze soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy.
L-grade stainless verification on small parts? No problem
The SciAps LIBS (laser) unit is especially designed for handling curved surfaces and small parts. The device uses a small exit aperture and a patented argon purge/bleed design so that a good purge is achieved but without requiring a seal to the material surface.
Need economical geochemistry? Use SciAps handheld apps
SciAps apps-based analyzers are ready to go for critical geochemistry applications. Take advantage of our Android operating system and the apps-based smartphone culture that everyone knows, including real-time data exporting, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. When you fire up the X or Z, you simply choose the type of work you want to do. Each app is pre-configured and optimized for your application, or use our Profile Builder desktop software to customize local calibrations and methods.
The World’s First Handheld for Key Element Carbon
The SciAps Z is the world’s only handheld analyzer that measures carbon across every use: finding total organic carbon (TOC) in soils, identifying preg-robbing potential in gold mining, and establishing carbon and carbon equivalents in alloys, particularly for L-grade stainless steel for pharma operations.
The Periodic Table – Measured with a Handheld
Measure virtually every element, in almost any material, with a handheld analyzer. That’s the power of the SciAps Z handheld LIBS system.
SciAps Can Meet Refinery Residual Requirements in Steel
The SciAps Z LIBS (laser) is the only handheld analyzer that can measure every element and meet all of the residual requirements for HF alkylation units in refineries. The SciAps Z is a handheld carbon analyzer capable of measuring the carbon content in carbon steels and alloy steels.
Industry Driven: LIBS lifetime basic training
One of the added benefits of buying SciAps LIBS analyzers is the lifetime basic operational training for as long as the company owns the LIBS. Carbon testing is significantly more difficult than the “point and shoot” simplicity of XRF.
Kripke Guarantees Aluminum Shipments with SciAps LIBS
Kripke now utilizes the SciAps handheld LIBS analyzer to certify that aluminum products meet chemistry specifications critical for fine grade sorting.
X-505 Handheld XRF: The Latest Breakthrough from SciAps
SciAps announces the release of the X-505—the second addition to its new product line featuring the smallest, lightest weight handheld X-ray analyzers made and addressing the specific needs of NDT/PMI, scrap, mining, environmental, and general analytical industries.
Technical Note: Handheld LIBS Provides a Fast and Easy Method to Trace Gold
A new study published as a Technical Note in the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (JAAS) demonstrates LIBS as a fast and easy method to trace gold provenance, a previously difficult but necessary task to ensure a responsible supply chain from deposit to consumer.