TY - JOUR A1 - Lange, Britta A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Czerwensky, Michael A1 - Matschat, Ralf A1 - Michaelis, Matthias A1 - Peplinski, Burkhard A1 - Panne, Ulrich T1 - Analysis of pure copper - a comparison of analytical mehods KW - Pure copper KW - Elemental analytical mehtods KW - Reference material KW - Sample dissolution PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-007-0849-1 SN - 0026-3672 SN - 1436-5073 VL - 160 SP - 97 EP - 107 PB - Springer CY - Wien AN - OPUS4-17565 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Michaelis, Matthias T1 - Certification of the mass fractions of Pt, Pd and Rh in a used car catalyst reference material N2 - The high economic value of catalysts containing the platinum group elements platinum, rhodium and palladium as active components causes the need to be able to measure the precious metal loading with small uncertainty and to have suitable certified reference materials fulfilling high demands on the quality of the certified values. In European Reference Material ERM®-EB504, a used cordierite-based car catalyst material, mass fractions of platinum, palladium and rhodium were certified. The raw material was milled, homogenised and annealed before analysis. Seventeen laboratories experienced in precious metals analysis participated in the certification interlaboratory comparison, most of them analysing with inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry using different sample pretreatment techniques. Homogeneity testing was carried out using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. The certified mass fractions of Pt, Pd and Rh and their expanded uncertainties (k = 2) in ERM®-EB504 are (1777 ± 15), (279 ± 6) and (338 ± 4) mg/kg respectively. KW - Precious metals KW - CRM KW - European reference material KW - Platinum KW - Rhodium KW - Palladium KW - ICP OES PY - 2009 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-009-0508-9 SN - 0949-1775 SN - 1432-0517 VL - 14 IS - 5 SP - 277 EP - 280 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-19349 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wienold, Julia A1 - Recknagel, Sebastian A1 - Scharf, Holger A1 - Hoppe, Marion A1 - Michaelis, Matthias T1 - Elemental analysis of printed circuit boards considering the ROHS regulations N2 - The EU RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council) bans the placing of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants on the EU market. It necessitates methods for the evaluation of RoHS compliance of assembled electronic equipment. In this study mounted printed circuit boards from personal computers were analyzed on their content of the three elements Cd, Pb and Hg which were limited by the EU RoHS directive. Main focus of the investigations was the influence of sample pre-treatment on the precision and reproducibility of the results. The sample preparation steps used were based on the guidelines given in EN 62321. Five different types of dissolution procedures were tested on different subsequent steps of sample treatment like cutting and milling. Elemental analysis was carried out using ICP–OES, XRF and CV–AFS (Hg). The results obtained showed that for decision-making with respect to RoHS compliance a size reduction of the material to be analyzed to particles ≤1.5 mm can already be sufficient. However, to ensure analytical results with relative standard deviations of less than 20%, as recommended by the EN 62321, a much larger effort for sample processing towards smaller particle sizes might be required which strongly depends on the mass fraction of the element under investigation. KW - RoHS KW - Printed circuit boards KW - Electrotechnical products KW - Elemental composition PY - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2010.10.002 SN - 0956-053X VL - 31 IS - 3 SP - 530 EP - 535 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-23986 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -