Description
The X-600 fluxer is a state-of-the-art electric fusion machine designed for today’s challenging laboratory environments. With its innovative heating elements, downtime is significantly reduced as they are resistant to flux and chemical attacks. The furnace can reach the required temperature in less than 15 minutes and remain ready for quick startups of new batches of XRF beads or ICP solutions. The automatic active power monitoring system in the furnace ensures extraordinary temperature stability from one run to the next and across all crucibles in the furnace.
The X-600 comes pre-loaded with various fusion methods that can be customized and saved, renamed, deleted or copied, just like computer files. The instrument features a ceramic platinumware holder which eliminates the risk of contamination during the fusion process.
When the user initiates the fusion process, the furnace door opens, and the platinumware holders move forward into the oven, starting the automatic heating sequence. The crucible holder continuously mixes the flux with the sample, dissolving it until the crucibles tilt forward to empty their contents into the molds. The molds are cooled by twin blowers located underneath and, when cooled, the user can retrieve perfectly homogenous glass beads ready for analysis by XRF.
For solution preparation, the hot melt is poured into unbreakable beakers that contain an acid stirred by an optional magnetic system. The X-600 fluxer is a reliable and efficient solution for electric fusion in laboratories that demand high precision and productivity.
Special features
- Innovative heating elements
- Impervious to flux and other chemical projections
- Robust and non-brittle (instrument can be moved without element damage)
- Cartridge type for easy replacement
- Can be changed individually, without interruption
- Advanced furnace
- Dynamic Temperature Profile (DTP) to ensure uniform temperature (patent pending)
- Individual element automatic power compensation (patent pending)
- Fast heat-up (<15 minutes)
- Strict use of ceramic eliminates metal contamination
- Other
- Industrial PLC interface (does not depend on Windows updates)
- Requires no external supplies (no power supply box, no cooling fluids)
- Single-phase power (no need for 3-phase)
- Tiltable interface screen for various user heights
- Ambient status light (red when processing, blue when completed)
Reliability
- Built with the most demanding lab in mind
- Heating elements impervious to flux and chemical projections
- Robust, all-ceramic platinumware holders
- Industrial-grade motors and electronics
High-throughput
- Simultaneous processing of up to six (6) samples
- Can prepare glass disks (beads) for XRF, or solutions for ICP, including preparations in peroxide or pyrosulfate
- Throughput of up to 30 samples/hour
- Fast initial heat-up time of under 15 minutes
- Productivity is improved by a user-adjustable holding temperature. Therefore, the temperature between fusions can be maintained to minimize initial ramping time
Safety
- No gases used, so no post-combustion toxic products released
- Minimal heat dissipation; only a standard vent hood is required
- Integrated, auto-locking protection shield with safety glass viewport
Accuracy
- Extra-precise temperature control achieved by Dynamic Temperature Profiling (DTP) and automatic individual element power compensation (patents pending).
- Entirely automated, cold-to-cold
- Fully reproducible fusion methods
- Outstanding reproducibility: all crucibles and molds are at the same temperature
- Real-time temperature display
- Optimum pouring conditions, since the molds are in the furnace with the crucibles
Versatility
- Makes glass disks for XRF
- Can also make solutions (including peroxide or pyrosulfate fusions without modification)
- Optional variable-speed embedded solutions stirrer available
- Prepares up to six (6) solutions for ICP or AA
- Switching from disk to solution mode is quick and easy
- Ready to fuse with built-in methods for oxides, minerals, metals, alloys, sulfides, fluorides and more
- Can perform solid or liquid oxidations
- Fully customizable fusion methods
Simplicity
- A highly optimized, intelligent, advanced furnace
- Easy installation
- Intuitive graphical interface with multiple languages
- Easy icon touch-screen navigation
- Virtually maintenance-free; easy component access
