Analytik Aurachtal GmbH disposes of a very well, technically equipped sample preparation. Besides the standard laboratory devices like rotary evaporator, distillation apparatuses, and muffle furnace, we dispose of the following special devices:

Mills/grinding tools:

Fragmentation of solid materials is necessary if the material exhibits too large granulation for the analysis, for example via RFA, GC-MS or IC.

We have a cutting mill for grinding of large sample quantities of difficult matrix (for instance glass fibre reinforced boards).

For smaller sample amounts we use a centrifugal mill or a vibration mill. The vibration mill can also be used for samples that require a cryogenic grinding (cooling with liquid nitrogen), for example for electronic components made of plastic.

Climatic chambers:

We dispose of various drying and climatic chamber in different sizes. They can maintain a working temperature from 30 to 250°C. Relative humidity between 30 and 90% can be adjusted for climatic testing.

Microwave digestion unit:

Solid samples have to be transferred into an aqueous form for further analysis via ICP-OES. Hereby the materials are treated with acid and put into a microwave digestion unit.

Analytical sieve machine:

The analytical sieve machine is equipped with up to five sieve-bottom-combinations with a device range of 63 µm. The main application is sieving of dust for the extraction of particulate matter for further analysis.