XRF - Energy Dispersive Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Elemental Analysis

The demand for metals in the world is increasing in pace with the growing population and technological requirements. This has to be achieved with minimum impact on the environment and high material efficiency in the production. This implies the use of secondary materials as well as low-grade ores in the production of metals. With low metal value hydrometallurgical methods involving dissolution of metals in liquids followed by recovery from these becomes important. The availability of rapid real-time analyses for samples deduced during experiments will speed up the development of processes for such materials as the selection of test conditions can be adapted to results from recently conducted tests.