A newly developed XRF-Sensor with high sensitivity for increased sorting efficiency

X-Ray Fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) is an element sensitive detection method and all kinds of materials can be separated as long as they are different in at least one element with an atomic number of Calcium or higher. Due to this capability XRF-Sensors can amongst other things be used to separate different kinds of glass (lead-glass, ceramics…), different metals (e.g. “meatballs” in scrap preparation) or in mining plants to separate metal rich from dead rocks.