X-300
The Katanax® X-300 fluxer is a key part of our new offering in next-generation electric fusion, providing exceptional flexibility for outstanding ease of use and unparalled results.
This multi-sample fluxer is available in 1, 2 or 3 positions, and can later be expanded, thus adapting to the needs of today’s modern laboratories. Here is what customer Owens Corning had to say about its pre-release trial:
Description
The X-300: Features
Special features
- Expandability
- Available pre-configured as a 1, 2 or 3 position unit
- Upgradeable by customers in their own labs
- Adapts laboratories' changing needs
- Innovative heating elements
- Impervious to flux and other chemical projections
- Robust and non-brittle (instrument can be moved without element damage)
- Cartridge type for easy replacement
- Can be changed individually, with minimal interruption
- Advanced furnace
- Dynamic Temperature Profile (DTP) to ensure uniform temperature (patent pending)
- Individual element automatic power compensation (patent pending)
- Fast heat-up (<15 minutes)
- Strict use of ceramic eliminates metal contamination
- Other
- Industrial PLC interface (does not depend on Windows updates)
- Requires no external supplies (no power supply box, no cooling fluids)
- Single-phase power (no need for 3-phase)
- Tiltable interface screen for various user heights
- Ambient status light (red when processing, blue when completed)
Reliability
- Built with the most demanding lab in mind
- Heating elements impervious to flux and chemical projections
- Robust, all-ceramic platinumware holders
- Industrial-grade motors and electronics
- Shares several components with the heavy-duty X-600
High-throughput
- Simultaneous processing of up to three (3) samples
- Can prepare glass disks (beads) for XRF, or solutions for ICP, including preparations in peroxide or pyrosulfate
- Throughput of up to 15 samples/hour
- Fast initial heat-up time of under 15 minutes
- Productivity is improved by a user-adjustable holding temperature. Therefore, the temperature between fusions can be maintained to minimize initial ramping time
Safety
- No gases used, so no post-combustion toxic products released
- Minimal heat dissipation; only a standard vent hood is required
- Integrated, auto-locking protection shield with safety glass viewport
Accuracy
- Extra-precise temperature control achieved by Dynamic Temperature Profiling (DTP) and automatic individual element power compensation (patents pending).
- Entirely automated, cold-to-cold
- Fully reproducible fusion methods
- Outstanding reproducibility: all crucibles and molds are at the same temperature
- Real-time temperature display
- Optimum pouring conditions, since the molds are in the furnace with the crucibles
Versatility
- Makes glass disks for XRF
- Can also make solutions (including peroxide or pyrosulfate fusions without modification)
- Optional variable-speed embedded solutions stirrer available
- Prepares up to three (3) solutions for ICP or AA
- Switching from disk to solution mode is quick and easy
- Ready to fuse with built-in methods for oxides, minerals, metals, alloys, sulfides, fluorides and more
- Can perform solid or liquid oxidations
- Fully customizable fusion methods
Simplicity
- An expandable, intelligent, advanced furnace
- Easy installation
- Intuitive graphical interface with multiple languages
- Easy icon touch-screen navigation
- Virtually maintenance-free; easy component access
The X-300 fluxer:
Technical specifications
Voltage: | 195-250 VAC |
(50-60 Hz) | |
Power (max): | 3000 W |
Temperature: | 50-1200°C |
Height: | 51 cm [20"] |
Width: | 48 cm [19"] |
Depth: | 63 cm [25"] |
Mass: | 45 kg [99 lbs] |
Installation
Installation is fairly simple, just like another lab furnace:
- Run a 220 VAC wire from the 15A breaker box to the installation site. (You might well have such an outlet already installed.)
- Connect instrument to this standard wall outlet and turn on.
- Enjoy !
What is in the X-300 box
- 1 fluxer (X-300 main unit)
- 1 tool kit (hex keys, spare fuses...)
- 1 instruction manual
- 1 USB memory stick (for firmware upgrades and program backups)