Chemical Analysis Laboratories

Chemical Analysis is useful for: 

Material Verification

Manufacturers across all industries rely on material verification services to ensure that the material they are utilizing has a chemical composition consistent with their materials certification documents. Element provides clear and concise test reports that state the results of the chemical analysis along with a comparison to the acceptance criterion (pass/fail). This allows manufacturers to “spot check” material lots and often serves as an investigatory first step for warranties and issues related to in-service failures.

Material Identification

Sometimes, the identity of a material can be completely unknown, due to lost certifications or ambiguity over the material’s origins. In these cases, Element’s chemists utilize their chemical analysis expertise to select numerous analytical techniques and perform advanced data analysis to uncover the complete chemical breakdown of a material. This allows Element to identify any material recovered from the field, salvage unknown material that would otherwise be scrapped, and reverse engineer or deformulate existing materials, products or components.

Chemical Composition Analysis

Our chemical analysis teams utilize a combination of techniques to identify chemical composition, determine chemical quality, and identify any impurities.

Contaminant Detection & Residue Analysis

When a residue or an unknown substance appears where it should not, identifying the contaminant quickly and accurately is crucial to correcting any underlying issues. Element’s investigative chemical analysis teams have a wide range of equipment and techniques at their disposal, including SEM/EDX (Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy), XRD (X-Ray Diffraction), and FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy).