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Area of Science:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Traditional elemental analysis often requires extensive sample preparation, increasing time and cost.
  • Flame emission spectroscopy offers a direct method for elemental detection but faces challenges with solid samples.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a burner system for direct elemental analysis of solid, inflammable samples using flame emission spectroscopy.
  • To enable real-time elemental composition determination without sample pretreatment.

Main Methods:

  • Design of an acetylene-nitrous oxide burner with active injection for solid particle introduction.
  • Utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for particle transport analysis.
  • Spectral analysis of flame emission from copper- and iron-metal powder mixtures.
  • Implementation of an artificial neural network (ANN) for spectral data analysis.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated ability to determine elemental compositions of solid mixtures without prior sample treatment.
  • Achieved rapid and reliable identification of constituent elements in binary Cu/Fe mixtures with 2.7 mol% uncertainty.
  • Accurately determined blackbody temperature in the 2200-2600 K range with 7 K accuracy.

Conclusions:

  • The developed burner system provides a direct, efficient, and accurate method for real-time elemental analysis of solid samples.
  • The integration of CFD and ANN enhances the precision and reliability of the analytical technique.
  • This approach significantly reduces sample preparation requirements, offering a streamlined analytical workflow.