A high-volume, well-defined condition-monitoring niche.
Refineries, industrial gas producers, specialty chemical manufacturers, fertiliser producers and lubricant blenders.
Trace metals in feedstocks & products
Process quality and specification compliance.
Catalyst analysis
Characterisation of fresh and spent catalyst; precious metal content in PGM catalyst; trace metal poisons (vanadium, nickel, iron) reducing catalyst activity.
Wear metals in lubricating oils
Condition monitoring — iron, chromium, copper, lead, aluminium, silicon, tin and nickel indicate bearing, gear and cylinder wear before failure.
Additive extraction & quantification
Via EDGE.
Moisture & solids in process streams
Via SMART 6.
Microwave synthesis in R&D
Polymer chemistry, materials synthesis via Discover 2.0.
The wear-metals / condition monitoring angle. South African mining and heavy transport operate very large condition-monitoring programmes on haul trucks, draglines, mills, locomotives and hydraulic systems. An unplanned gearbox failure costs orders of magnitude more than the monitoring programme that would have predicted it. The ASX-1400 and ASX-1600 autosamplers were developed for exactly this application — they homogenise each sample with a variable-speed stirring paddle immediately before aspiration.
Trusted across South Africa's petrochemical and chemical sector.
- · A JSE-listed synthetic fuels and chemicals producer
- · Independent petrochemical testing laboratories
- · Specialty chemical and lubricant blending facilities
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MARS 6 / BLADE
Trace metals and catalyst digestion (aqua regia, HF where needed).
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Additive extraction from polymers and lubricants.
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Wear-metal condition monitoring autosamplers.
View product →SMART 6
Moisture and solids in process streams.
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