Contamination Problems Analysis

Our life is surround by many types of materials, such as metal, ceramic, polymer, glass and composites. Materials have become indispensable in our lives. Taking cars as a simple example, it is constructed with metal, alloy, rubber, plastics, leather, fabrics, glass, carbon fiber composites materials as well as circuits^[1]. Every year tons of materials are eliminated because of contamination in the materials. The contaminations in materials not only influence the appearance of products but also influence the properties. In some extreme cases, the failure of materials can occur even causing serious loss of national economy. Serious aircraft troubles, including engine flameouts, fuel gage malfunctions, integral tank corrosion, and other fuel system difficulties have been traced to contaminants in the fuel.

Fig.1 A car with a variety of materials.

Alfa Chemistry offers contamination problems characterizations for:

• Plastics: PP/PE/PST, etc.

• Rubbers: EPR/ABS/IIR, etc.

• Ceramics

• Coatings and adhesives

• Composites: metal based composites, polymer based composites, ceramic based composites

• Metal materials: iron, aluminum, alloys, etc.

• Oil and Gas

Alfa Chemistry testing laboratories possess many professional equipment for ISO and ASTM method testing. Such as:

• Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

• Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)

• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)

• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)

• Thermogravimateric Analysis (TGA)

• X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF)

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (NMR)

• UV-Vis spectrophotometer

• Energy Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS)

Except the above-mentioned contamination problems characterizations services, Alfa Chemistry also provides services to food contamination, environment contamination, pharmaceutical contamination studies and investigation. Please check our website for these specific topics. Alfa Chemistry is your one stop shop for all your research and testing services.

Alfa Chemistry is professional in contamination problems characterizations for many industries. Our research and testing services can provide accurate and reliable tests results within the time constraint. Please feel free to contact us if you have any concern or would like us to perform any contamination testing. Check our instruments list to see our capabilities.

Reference

• Davies G. - Materials for Automobile Bodies (Second Edition) [J]. Materials for Automobile Bodies, 2012:397–404.