Plastic Elemental Content Spectrometer
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ICP-OES spectrometers like the SPECTRO ARCOS, the SPECTROGREEN, and the SPECTRO GENESIS are frequently employed for elemental analysis in polymers. The best solution for identifying plastics is small, mobile near-infrared spectrometers. The compact handheld spectrometer MicroNIR OnSite-W is just the right solution: Easy handling – plastic detection at the push of a button. An Elemental Analyzer is a reliable system for quantification of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, and oxygen. It requires no sample digestion or toxic chemicals, provides important advantages in terms of time, automation and quantitative determination across a large range of concentrations, till. Here, we report the results of a first preliminary characterization of carbon stable isotopes (δ13C) of different plastic polymers (petroleum- and plant-derived) and a first experimental study aimed to determine carbon isotopic shift due to polymer degradation in an aquatic environment.