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Materials analysis

Materials analysis is an important foundation of our laboratory. The wide variety of methods we use allow us to comprehensively characterise the materials of the chemical elements, mineral phases/compounds or the surface or structure.

What we offer you for your analysis task:

 

The following are just some of the typical materials we test:

Oxides and minerals

  • Refractory materials / raw materials
  • Slags
  • Glass and ceramic
  • Cement
  • Ores and stones
  • Asbestos and artificial mineral fibres

 

Metals

  • Steels
  • Special materials
  • Scraps
  • Residual and recyclable materials

 

Alloys and aggregates

  • Ferroalloys
  • Lime
  • Fluorspar
  • Silicon carbide

 

Other materials

  • Oils and paints
  • Multi-component systems
  • Carbons and other fuels (solid, organic, secondary)
  • and much more

 

Typical analytic methods used in materials analysis include:

Elementary analysis

  • • X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF)
  • Spectroscopy using inductively coupled plasmas (ICP-OES, ICP-MS)
  • Ion chromatography (IC)
  • Combustion (IR detection, WLD)
  • Atom absorption spectrometry (AAS)

 

Surface analysis

  • Scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EM-ED)

 

(Mineral) phase analysis

  • X-ray diffraction (XRD)

 

Organic compounds

  • Gas chromatography (HS-GC, GC-MS, GC-FID, pyrolysis)
  • Outgassing tests

 

Physical properties

  • Melting properties (hot stage microscopy),
  • Grain size distribution (screening analysis, laser granulometric analysis),
  • Density (true density, grain gross density, ...)
  • Moisture, annealing loss, ash content

 

If you have any questions on these analyses, please contact our laboratory team at: anfrage-analytics@horn-co.de

Persons of contact

Florian Droste
Head of Department Inorganics
+49 2762 9740-74
+49 2762 9740-11
Stephan Köller
B.Sc. Chemistry
+49 2762 9740-93
+49 2762 9740-11
Farah Jarjour
Team leader organic
+49 2762 9740-35
+49 2762 9740-11
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Köhler
Sales
+49 151 14231997