The Thermo Scientific™ Niton™ XL5 Plus Analyzer offers users a powerful alloy verification tool. This ergonomically designed, lightweight, handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer supplies excellent levels of accuracy, productivity and speed for manufacturing and metal fabrication, metal recycling, PMI inspection, and mining exploration.
The compact design permits the user to optimize the geometry between the fluorescence detector, X-ray source, and sample. This enhances the detection limits and makes measurement times quicker – particularly for light elements.
The Niton XL5 Plus analyzer has also been designed to calculate the elemental composition of sludge, oil, scale, slurries and powders. The easy-to-use software which includes customizable workflow solutions makes the analyzer extremely user-friendly. Numerous operator profiles can be handled simultaneously with the user-management software.
Custom profiles can be created for specific analysis or management requirements. Thanks to the tilting, color touchscreen with swipe functionality, multiple angle viewing is achievable. Using the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer, operators can easily review data (Data), perform scanning (Analyze), and customize device setup (Settings). The analyzer generates reliable results to users for easier and faster interpretation.
Advantages of the Niton XL5 Plus Handheld XRF Analyzer for Industrial Markets
Combined with user profile customizability, micro and macro cameras, and vivid navigation, the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer provides cutting-edge analytical performance in a number of industries, including oil and gas, power plants, manufacturing and metal fabrication, mining, and scrap metal recycling.
Metal Fabricating
To ensure that no out-of-specification or incorrect metal alloys enter the manufacturing process, the metal fabricating market is increasingly dependent on handheld XRF to carry out elemental analysis in a non-destructive way.
Composition and alloy grade, and numerous metal chemistries can be established quickly using the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer. Quality assurance and quality control processes can be optimized and confidence in risk-management practices can be increased by utilizing this handheld XRF analyzer.
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Oil and Gas
Structural integrity of plant assets and pipelines is a major safety concern in the oil and gas industry as well as in power generation facilities. Positive material identification (PMI) of piping material is crucial in areas facing problems such as sulfidic corrosion and flow accelerated corrosion.
The composition of reaction vessels, valves, and piping can be established within seconds by utilizing the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer, with the lowest limits of detection (LODs) possible. The handheld XRF analyzer permits users to carry out continuous inspection by giving access to corner welds and tight spots along the pipelines throughout the plant, thus decreasing operator fatigue.
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Scrap Metal Recycling
The growing utilization of recycled materials in fabrication processes has resulted in the continuous expansion of the scrap metal market. There is an increasing risk of having higher proportions of tramp/trace elements in the recycled materials as a result. So, it is necessary to identify and measure these materials to comply with regulatory standards.
With an internal calibration standard to ensure accuracy, and an extensive alloy library, the Niton XL5 Plus analyzer helps the supply chain to be free from contaminated scrap or alloy-mix ups.
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