Precious Metals: Pre-Analytical Workflow Optimization

Event Overview:

Accurate impurity analysis in metal alloys, particularly in precious metals, is essential for ensuring quality, performance, and value. Traditional methods, such as fire assay, are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to contamination, which can impact efficiency and data reliability.

This webinar examines how microwave digestion provides a faster, safer, and more reproducible alternative. We’ll discuss the limitations of conventional techniques and explore how Single Reaction Chamber digestion can reduce operator time, improve accuracy, and streamline laboratory workflows.

Dirats Laboratories, a long-standing materials testing facility, will share their experience transitioning from rotor-based microwave digestion to SRC microwave technology. With over 20 years of expertise in elemental analysis, their shift to a more efficient system has helped minimize fusion steps, enhance process efficiency, and achieve notable time and cost savings.

What you will learn:

• Understand how microwave digestion technology can reduce operator time, increase throughput, and improve analytical accuracy, even for challenging alloy samples.
• Learn how a closed digestion system minimizes blank values and contamination risks for more reliable impurity analysis.
• Explore how controlled digestion conditions enhance laboratory safety by reducing exposure to hazardous reagents and fumes.
• Gain insights into workflow optimization with a more efficient and reproducible digestion approach

Who should attend

• Anyone performing or overseeing elemental analysis
• Lab directors & Lab managers/supervisors
• Researchers
• Chemists/analysts
• Technicians/research assistants
• QA/QC managers