21 - 23^rd April 2009
University of Loughborough.

XRF Programme.

Link to the Industrial Group XRD Programme.
Link to BCA Meeting page for full meeting details including registration, abstract submission and exhibition.

There is a comprehensive XRF programme over the three days and we encourage submission of dedicated XRF posters at this meeting.
NOTE: 2nd February is the deadline for contributed POSTERS! Submit your poster abstract using the template available for download on the abstract upload page.

Dave Taylor is the XRF representative on the planning committee. E-mail link at foot of page.

There will be a Commercial Exhibition and XRF vendors are encouraged to attend and give an Exhibitor talk.

More details will be posted here as they become available.

2009 Spring Meeting XRF Overview

XRF Session Details

Tuesday 21^st April 2009

Morning:
11:00 - 12:30 XRF: General Applications
David Beveridge is organiser and chair.

    11:00 Calibration maintenance: food for thought.
    Stephen Davies, PANalytical.
    11:30 The 10 micron innovation - applications in micro-XRF.
     Simon FitzGerald, HORIBA Jobin Yvon Ltd.
    12:00 Micro spot analysis of electronic components using polycapillary lens in standard WDXRF.
     Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Rigaku, Japan.

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon:
13:30 - 15:00 XRF: Hand Held Applications Workshop.
Margaret West is organiser and chair.

Many analytical techniques may be considered "portable" in the sense that they can be operated in a mobile laboratory that is capable of being transported to a field site. However, the particular advantage of Hand-held XRF is the capability of the technique to undertake in situ analytical measurements where the PXRF analyser is taken to and placed in contact with the sample. No sample preparation is involved, an analytical measurement is taken and the results is immediately available to the operator. The operator may then decide what to analyse next, giving rise to the concept of an "interactive sampling and analysis" capability that few other techniques are capable of delivering.
Live instrument demonstrations may be possible in this workshop, but are subject to site safety approval by the University.

15:00 Tea

15:30 - 17:00 Portable Instruments.
Margaret West is organiser and chair.

    15:30 Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis - new opportunities, new challenges
    Phil Potts, Open University.
    16:00 Analysis of Limestone & Dolomite
    Mark Ingham, British Geological Survey.
    16:30 Penguins & precious metals, the use of the hand held XRF at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
    Deborah Cane & Duncan Slarke, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

17:15 -18:45 XRF Exhibitors' Forum.
Dave Taylor is organiser and chair.

Exhibitors will be allowed to give commercial talks aimed at encouraging delegates to visit their exhibition stand for further information. Exhibitors will be required to register in advance to give a presentation and the available time of 90 minutes will be divided equally to fit in all the talks.

Evening: Posters and Exhibition with buffet and wine.

Wednesday 22^nd April 2009

Morning:
09:00 - 09:45 XRF / XRD Keynote - Environmental Applications.
Nick Marsh (Leicester)

10:15 - 11:45 XRF/XRD Joint session - Environmental Applications
Dave Taylor/Richard Morris are organisers.

    10:15 New applications in the use of X-ray diffraction at the Health and Safety Laboratory:-
    A case study using XRD to assess emissions across construction sites
    Peter Stacey, Health and Safety Laboratory.
    10:45 Heavy metals in sediments of the canal network in the Black Country.
    Clive Roberts, Wolverhampton University.
    11:15 Matching XRF and XRD solutions with analytical needs for cleaner, safer and healthier environment.
    Ravi Yellepeddi and Didier Bonvin, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Afternoon
13:30 - 15:00 XRF: Environmental Applications.
Dave Taylor is organiser and chair.

    13:30 How XRF fits into RoHS analyses.
    Christine Vanhoof, VITO - Environmental Analysis and Technology, Belgium.
    14:00 Where there's muck there's brass and iron and lead and chromium....
    Richard C. E. Morris, Morris Analytical X-ray Ltd.
    14:30 ItraX micro-XRF core scanner: just what the environmental sciences needed.
    Ian Croudace, University of Southampton.

15:00 Tea

15:30 - 18:00 Trace Analysis
Mark Ingham is organiser and chair.

    15:30 On site analytics: The application of XRF to contaminated land remediation.
    Jamie Cutting, Scott Wilson Ltd.
    16:00 Determination of traces of heavy metals in water by XRF.
    David Beveridge, HARMAN technology Ltd.
    16:30 Trace analysis on alternative fuels by polarised EDXF.
    Phil Russell, PANalytical.
    16:50 XRF - the new trace technique.
    Mike Dobby, Bruker AXS.
    17:10 A simple and rapid method for trace element analysis of waters using benchtop polarized EDXRF Spectrometer.
    Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Rigaku Corporation, Japan.
    17:30 Trace analysis using a Geometrically Optimised Large area Drift Detector(GOLDD)in portable XRF.
    Chris Calam, Thermo Fisher Scientific Niton Analyzers.
    17:50 Close

18:00 BCA AGM.

Evening: Conference Dinner.

Thursday 23^rd April 2009

Morning
09:00 - 09:45 Foundation Lecture "Method validation to achieve ISO 17025 accreditation"
David Lowe, United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).

09:45 Coffee

10:15 - 11:45 Method Validation.
Ros Schwarz is organiser and chair.

    10:15 Method validation – working our way through the ASTM process.
    Debra Schofield, Oxford Instruments Analytical Ltd.
    10:45 A practical approach to ISO 17025 accreditation.
    Eddie Birch, CIQ Audit.
    11:15 Some statistics useful in method evaluation.
    Prof. Paul Thomas, University of Loughborough.

12:00 - 13:30 New Developments in Instrumentation and TXRF.
Margaret West is organiser and chair.

    12:00 Developments in TXRF analysis
    Prof. Christina Streli, TU Wien, Atominstitut der Österreichischen Universitäten
    12:30 Trace element analysis of pharmacological, medical and biological samples by TXRF
    Armin Gross, Bruker AXS Microanalysis GmbH
    13:00 Energy dispersive XRF - its diversity and capabilities.
    Malcolm Haigh, Spectro Analytical UK Ltd.

13:30 Closing Remarks.