With the Thermo Scientific™ AnStat-430 Online Sampling and Elemental Analysis Station you can achieve outstanding availability, precision, and accuracy in sampling without the use of radioisotopes.
The Thermo Scientific™ AnStat-430 online slurry sampling and XRF elemental analysis station is a high-availability, low-head-loss option for precise measurement of crucial slurry streams in mineral processing facilities without the use of radioisotopes.
The AnStat-430 eliminates the need for pumps and provides continuous, precise, real-time assays with the MEP-400 integrated probe for analysis, and a representative sampler with single or multiple stages to suit the entire flow rate range. Accurate management of flotation circuits with great dependability and low maintenance is made possible by AnStat-430.
Key features of the AnStat-430 include:
- The Thermo Scientific™ MEP-400 Multi-Element Probe, with improved X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) technology, provides safer, more accurate, and better resolution elemental analysis for bulk commodity slurries compared to the MEP-300 (and all predecessors)
- An air-cooled, low-power X-ray tube that does not require radioisotopes
- A sophisticated, large surface area, energy dispersive Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) for precise measurement from calcium to uranium without the need for cryogenic cooling, ensuring dependable, trouble-free operation throughout a wide variety of in-plant environmental conditions
- High-speed digital pulse processor
- Very low head loss simplifies sampling design and architecture while removing sample pumps and decreasing total plant head needs, resulting in optimal energy utilization during the plant's life
- Exceptional availability, allowing for consistent, precise measurement and sampling around the clock
- For highly representative proportional stream sampling, use one, two, or three stages, depending on the flow rate. The last step is an environmentally hardened cross-cut sampler for precise accounting samples
- For the AnStat-430 and Thermo Scientific™ SamStat-30 Representative Slurry Sampling Stations, the final stage cross-cut sampler is the same for the whole spectrum of process volumetric flows
- The only slurry-wetted moving components are in the final stage stirrer and cross-cut sampler, allowing for low maintenance and trouble-free operation over time
- Simplified integration into existing process plants
- If users need to measure multiple streams, they will need to use multiple AnStat-430 devices, as each unit is only designed to handle one stream
The AnStat-430 provides a variety of extra settings for optimal functioning in each application:
- Pebble screen to remove large particles from cyclone overflow and restore them to the grinding circuit. This option is recommended as a backup to a primary oversize and tramp material screen situated upstream of the primary grinding circuit product
- The outlet distributor divides the slurry flow into two or more separate streams with predetermined flow volume percentages
- For particle size measurement, the upwelling/reverse flow sampling zone offers the best sampling conditions
- Pneumatic dump valves
- Vacuum Filter for composite (shift) samples
Specifications
Source: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Production Process & Analytics
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| Air Requirements |
Instrument Air, ISO 8573.1 Class 3, 4, 3, Dewpoint <3 °C.
Pressure 550 kPa minimum, 1000 kPa maximum, nominal 600 kPa (87 psi).
Consumption: maximum flow rate 420 SLPM. |
| Electrical Requirements |
Three-phase 380-600 Volts AC +/- 10 %, 50/60 Hz (48 – 62 Hz), 2.5 kVA. |
| Operating Temperature |
Ambient 0 °C to +55 °C.
Process Fluid: 0 °C to 45 °C. |
| Unit Size |
Each |