BWB Flash Flame Photometer

Our award winning 4-channel instrument

The future of flame photometry has arrived!

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The “Flash” BWB Flame Photometer mini product line was created in January 2018 to answer the request from global distributors and users for a lower cost version of the Highly Acclaimed BWB “XP” that has dominated the Flame Photometry market since 2007. 

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These new models feature the identical inbuilt custom designed air compressor (rated for thousands of hours of trouble free service),

the expandable Menu structure for units of measure, and the customer benefit of the “Just Add Gas” philosophy for simplified ordering and start up. These are the same benefits as our premium line of XP Flame Photometers, just with a slightly restricted Options list and fewer Laboratory and Fluids kit items. 

The design criteria for this new 2018 line was to provide a modernized replacement flame photometer for the hundreds of units in service in the USA and Canada that are now decades old. These older units have no replacement parts and no servicing is currently  available. These are Perkin Elmer, Jenway Instruments, Corning and Sherwood Instruments units as well as the units supplied by Cole Parmer, VWR and Fisher Scientific. 

When the costs of adding the extra components that are required to operate the flame photometers sold by our competition are totalled up, (calibration solutions, diluent solutions, various user replacement optional detection filters, optional software that ties to computers; AND the big cost, the required Air Compressor) the benefit of simplicity and cost savings of the “Just Add Gas” - "only one order number needed" we provide is apparent.

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Simple to order, simple to use, minimal table top space required, Major Power in simple software as standard (FP-PC), the new "FLASH" is another exciting offering from BWB Technologies USA.

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For new emerging markets: aqua farming, flow injection analyses, educational markets as well as the Replacement Flame Photometer marketplace in the USA.

Technical Data

Sample rate 

2-3.5ml/min
 

Tubing materials 

Silicone and Tygon®  
 

Required desk space for Instrument  

50cm (H) x 45cm (W) x 45cm (D)*

For safety reasons, a Flame photometer requires 1m
of unobstructed space above to allow dissipation of
heat from the chimney.
 

Instrument size 

Flash Flame Photometer
51cm (H) x 38cm (W) x 41cm (D)
(20in x 14in x 16in)
 

Shipping
62cm (H) x 55cm (W) x 47cm (D)
(24in x 22in x 19in)
 

Weight 

Flash Flame Photometer – 15.3kg (33.7lbs)

Shipping – 22kg (48.5 lbs)
 

Optimal range

Single point calibration

Na 0.1 – 60ppm 

K 0.05 – 100ppm 

Li 0.03 – 30ppm 

Ca 1.0 – 100ppm 
 

Multi Point Calibration

Na 0.1 – 1000ppm 

K 0.05 – 1000ppm 

Li 0.05 – 1000ppm 

Ca 1.0 – 1000ppm 
 

Reproducibility 

<1% Coefficient of variability for 20 consecutive samples over ten minutes at concentrations of 100ppm or less. (After instrument stabilization).

Chemical Interference

Na/K/Li = <0.5% to each other when
equal in concentration at <100ppm
 

Limit of detection (LOD) and
limit of quantification (LOQ) 

LOD                     LOQ        

Na – 0.03 ppm    Na – 0.1 ppm

K – 0.02 ppm       K – 0.05 ppm

Li – 0.02 ppm      Li – 0.05 ppm

Ca – 0.3 ppm       Ca – 1.0 ppm
 

Time to stability 

Less than 15 seconds after sample is introduced into the flame
 

Ions measured  

Potassium

Sodium

Lithium

Calcium
 

Interfaces  

USB

Optional Integrated Printer

.CSV and PDF generated repors and files via FP_PC software

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Recommended minimum warm up
time based on ambient temperature  

21ºC – 40 minutes     

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Power requirements   

100V – 250V AC at 50 or 60Hz automatically selecting 
 

Fuel requirement    

Propane, Butane or Natural Gas*
regulated to 19Bar. Flow rate of 0.4l/min

*with modifications. BWB Technologies recommends either Propane or Butane for optimum results.
 

Readout  

LCD, four line, alpha numeric, back lit.