Method for the Determination of Pd-Catalyst Residues in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients by Means of High-Energy Polarized-Beam Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence

2009 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 1404-1410 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Marguí ◽  
K. Van Meel ◽  
R. Van Grieken ◽  
A. Buendía ◽  
C. Fontàs ◽  
...  
2006 ◽  
Vol 524-525 ◽  
pp. 743-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander M. Korsunsky ◽  
Shu Yan Zhang ◽  
Daniele Dini ◽  
Willem J.J. Vorster ◽  
Jian Liu

Diffraction of penetrating radiation such as neutrons or high energy X-rays provides a powerful non-destructive method for the evaluation of residual stresses in engineering components. In particular, strain scanning using synchrotron energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction has been shown to offer a fast and highly spatially resolving measurement technique. Synchrotron beamlines provide best available instruments in terms of flux and low beam divergence, and hence spatial and measurement resolution and data collection rate. However, despite the rapidly growing number of facilities becoming available in Europe and across the world, access to synchrotron beamlines for routine industrial and research use remains regulated, comparatively slow and expensive. A laboratory high energy X-ray diffractometer for bulk residual strain evaluation (HEXameter) has been developed and built at Oxford University. It uses a twin-detector setup first proposed by one of the authors in the energy dispersive X-ray diffraction mode and allows simultaneous determination of macroscopic and microscopic strains in two mutually orthogonal directions that lie approximately within the plane normal to the incident beam. A careful procedure for detector response calibration is used in order to facilitate accurate determination of lattice parameters by pattern refinement. The results of HEXameter measurements are compared with synchrotron X-ray data for several samples e.g. made from a titanium alloy and a particulate composite with an aluminium alloy matrix. Experimental results are found to be consistent with synchrotron measurements and strain resolution close to 2×10-4 is routinely achieved by the new instrument.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katleen Van Meel ◽  
Clàudia Fontàs ◽  
René Van Grieken ◽  
Ignasi Queralt ◽  
Manuela Hidalgo ◽  
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Author(s):  
Allen Angel ◽  
Kathryn A. Jakes

Fabrics recovered from archaeological sites often are so badly degraded that fiber identification based on physical morphology is difficult. Although diagenetic changes may be viewed as destructive to factors necessary for the discernment of fiber information, changes occurring during any stage of a fiber's lifetime leave a record within the fiber's chemical and physical structure. These alterations may offer valuable clues to understanding the conditions of the fiber's growth, fiber preparation and fabric processing technology and conditions of burial or long term storage (1).Energy dispersive spectrometry has been reported to be suitable for determination of mordant treatment on historic fibers (2,3) and has been used to characterize metal wrapping of combination yarns (4,5). In this study, a technique is developed which provides fractured cross sections of fibers for x-ray analysis and elemental mapping. In addition, backscattered electron imaging (BSI) and energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis (EDS) are utilized to correlate elements to their distribution in fibers.


2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binbin Wang ◽  
John C. Jackson ◽  
Curtis Palmer ◽  
Baoshan Zheng ◽  
Robert B. Finkelman
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