Geosciences Applications

Geosciences - coal, fly ash, cement, soil, planetary geology

Inorganic particles – both natural and man-made – including soil, coal, cement, fly ash, and airborne dust, - can be analyzed using a variety of FEI solutions including automated mineralogy, SEM, and DualBeam™ . The results provide detailed understanding of impact of waste and pollution on the environment and health.

Coal & Fly Ash

Coal variability in terms of ash-forming mineral content is one factor that coal fired power stations need to monitor closely in order to avoid unplanned shutdowns caused by slagging, fouling, and boiler erosion.
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Cement

Cement producers use Automated Mineralogy to trouble-shoot production problems on cement plants, help improve the quality of their products, and investigate on-site construction issues.
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Soil

An increasing concern today is the effect of industrialization on soil quality, soil compaction and erosion. Automated mineralogy adds value to the study of soils by generating quantitative analysis on a particle-by-particle basis (environmental mineralogy).
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Planetary Geology

FEI's automated mineralogy technology is being used to provide mineral, phase and textural data on Apollo-era samples and lunar simulants, as well as meteorites and asteroids that have been collected by geologists on Earth.
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Automated Mineralogy and Volcanic Ash

Researchers at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) examined ash samples taken from Iceland in 2010. See what QEMSCAN and automated mineralogy revealed.

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