Unlike the X-ray transmission technology, the X-ray fluorescence technology is not an imaging technology which means that it does not produce images of the single pieces of metal processed but indicates the presence, concentration and nature of heavy metals.

‘This means that XRF requires to be combined with an additional “imaging” technology to identify the shape of every single piece processed in order to relate the XRF info on the presence and concentration of heavy metals to single pieces and allow for the possibility to produce a target to fire on by the pneumatic expel system,’ SGM Magnetics explains.

Traditional X-ray fluorescence sorters work in combination with either cameras or 3D laser scanners which provide the imaging information on the shape of the single pieces processed but nothing on the chemical nature of their inner content. The proprietary SGM XRF-T responses to the limitation of those sole imaging technologies by adding to the image of every single piece, info on the metal composition of their inner content.

In short, the SGM XRF-T sorter makes possible the identification and sorting of pieces of aluminium with pieces of heavy metals in them or still attached to them.

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MODEL XRF-T 32: Active width: 32” | Valves: 92 | Sources: 1 | Belt speed: 8 ft/sec | Capacity: 2-4 t/h MODEL XRF-T 64: Active width: 64” | Valves: 184 | Sources: 2 | Belt speed: 8 ft/sec | Capacity: 4-8 t/h  

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