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On-Site Determination of Ash in Coal Utilizing a Portable XRF Analyzer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

F. V. Brown  and
S. A. Jones
F. V. Brown
Affiliation:
Alabama Power Company, 600 North 18th Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35202
S. A. Jones
Affiliation:
Alabama Power Company, 600 North 18th Street, Birmingham, Alabama 35202
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The x-ray system used was a Columbia Scientific Industries Corporation Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer Minilab 700 with a ten millicurie curium 244 source. This source was chosen instead of the available 30mCi Pu-238 or the 30mCi Cm-244 source because it could be supplied under a general radioactivity materials license. The XRF analyzer could be powered by a variety of power supplies, either AC or DC. All data were evaluated and best curves were selected utilizing the Honeywell Time Sharing System. Programs from the statistical library were used with minor modifications.

Type
XRF Applications in the Minerals Industry
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 23: Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1979 , 1979 , pp. 57 - 63
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1979

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