In today's industrial landscape, accurate monitoring of sulfur and corrosive halogens (fluoride, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) is crucial to maintaining system integrity, preventing catalyst poisoning, and ensuring the highest quality of the finished product.
TRACE's XPREP C-IC system redefines efficiency standards by covering the entire industrial analytical cycle in a fully automated manner: from pyrohydrolytic oxidative combustion to direct injection into any Ion Chromatography (IC) system on the market.
Key Features
- Independence and Universal Compatibility: It can interface and automatically inject the recovered hydropyrolytic sample into the circuit of any brand and model of Ion Chromatography (IC) system already present in the laboratory
- Complete "End-to-End" Automation: It covers the entire analytical cycle without any manual operator intervention, integrating pyrohydrolytic oxidative combustion, fraction collection, and direct injection into a single sequence
- Flexible Modular Introduction: allows the analysis of solid, liquid, gaseous, and LPG matrices in the same instrument. The direct-injection liquid module (up to 420°C) and the boat-inlet module for solids can be swapped in just a few minutes
- Advanced Anti-Soot Control: the system introduces liquids with an automatic syringe at a controlled rate (up to 1 µL/s) to avoid carbon residues. It also uses a secondary oxygen collision flow for difficult matrices and a high-temperature self-cleaning filter
- Ultra-compact design and intelligent fractionation: reduces laboratory space by 50% compared to traditional CIC configurations. It manages absorption via a dual-channel needle and a 65-position vial tray, allowing both immediate analysis and storage for future replicates.
Industrial Applications
The extreme flexibility of XPREP C-IC allows for the analysis of complex matrices (solid, liquid, gaseous, and LPG), overcoming the limitations and time constraints of legacy offline methods:
- Petrochemicals and Refineries: quality control and monitoring of fuels, LPG, and pure chemicals to prevent structural corrosion and protect process catalysts
- Renewable Fuels: advanced analysis of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and pyrolysis oils from thermochemical recycling
- Plastics and Polymers: characterization of polyethylene (PE), rubber, and plastic waste fractionation streams for the circular economy
- Mining: elemental analysis of copper concentrates, iron ore, and coal
- Electronic Components: monitoring of halogens and impurities in next-generation batteries and welding materials
- Consumer Goods: compliance verification of textile materials and flame retardant compounds
Regulatory Compliance
XPREP C-IC guarantees maximum adherence to industry analytical standards:
- ASTM: D5359, D5987, D7359, D7994, D8150, D8247
- UOP: 991, 1001
- European Standards: NEN-EN 17813.