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XRF Analysis of Low Level Cation Concentration of Sodium Silicate Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

E. H. Sabino ,
M. R. Derolf  and
J. L. Bass
E. H. Sabino
Affiliation:
The PQ Corporation, Research and Development Center, P.O. Box 258, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
M. R. Derolf
Affiliation:
The PQ Corporation, Research and Development Center, P.O. Box 258, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
J. L. Bass
Affiliation:
The PQ Corporation, Research and Development Center, P.O. Box 258, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
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Sodium silicate solutions have been manufactured commercially for over one hundred years. Such solutions have been used in the past as major constituents in waxes, polishes and adhesives, and in detergents. A current additional use is their application in enhanced oil recovery. In many uses of sodium silicate solutions trace metal levels adversely effect performance. Depending on the source of the raw materials used in the silicate production and on processing conditions iron and vanadium in particular may be found at the 50-200 ppm level. X-ray fluorescence is used as a rapid method for analysis of iron in sand, one of the raw materials used in silicate manufacture. In order to use an instrument already at the plant site, we decided to develop an XRF method for metals analysis in the silicate solutions as well.

Type
VIII. Applications of XRF to Archeological, Geochemical and Industrial Materials
Information
Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 27: Thirty-Second Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 1-5, 1983 , 1983 , pp. 487 - 490
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1983

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