Flame Photometer Model AFP-100

AFP-100 is a microprocessor based version addition to its time flame photometer line.Solution containing alkali and alkaline earth metals when aspirated into a flame, vapours containing the atoms of the metals will be formed. Some of these gaseous metal atoms may be raised to a higher level sufficient to permit emission radiation of the metals. Flame photometer detects such emission radiations in a sample and quantifies them a concentration in ppm or meq as desired. Air at a given pressure into a nebulizer. The suction produced by it draws the solution of the sample in to the nebulizer, from where it emerges as fine mist and passes into the mixing chamber. In the mixing chamber air and mist of sample are mixed evenly with the fuel at a given pressure and are burnt in the burner. Radiations from the resulting flame passes through the lens system and an optical filter which permit only the radiation characteristic of the element under investigation in the sample through a photo detector. The output of the detector is processed to display concentration of the element in the units desired.

Flame photometry is a simple, relatively inexpensive, high sample throughput method used for clinical, biological, and environmental.