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The Innov-X Solution:
Once a challenge for handheld XRF, light element analysis is now available with the use of Innov-X's silicon drift detector (SDD) based analyzer - the highly accurate Omega Xpress. Continuing our pioneering approach to portable XRF analysis, Innov-X has integrated a novel, patent pending vacuum technology into the Omega Xpress to optimize the sensitivity and precision of magnesium (Mg), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si) and phosphorus (P) measurements in alloys.
Our unique solution integrates a small vacuum chamber inside the analyzer, sealing the detector, measurement aperture and x-ray tube to ambient air. Operation is simple: attach analyzer to portable pump, evacuate chamber for approximately 5 seconds, detach analyzer from pump and you're ready for untethered operation for up to 2 hours. There is no cumbersome vacuum pump to carry or attach to analyzer during operation.
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Why it’s Better:
Compare the Innov-X solution to competing portable XRFs. Innov-X offers several advantages:
- The Omega Xpress analyzer equipped with vacuum technology offers the best Mg in Aluminum LODs on the market.
- There is no need to wear a heavy tank of high pressure compressed gas on your back. Carrying pressurized gas is unwieldy at best, dangerous at worst.
- No consummables cost. Based on typical XRF duty cycles, using Helium gas will cost up to $10,000 annually just for helium replenishment.
- There is no need to have a vacuum pump constantly attached to the analyzer, which limits portability and ease of use.
- In one competing model, the sample face being analyzed is also under vacuum. This means for each sample the operator must bring the front end up to atmospheric pressure, change samples, pump down the chamber. This requirement greatly reduces sample throughput for only modest gains in performance.
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