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The Effect of Satellite Lines from the X-ray Source on X-ray Diffraction Peaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Frank E. Briden
Affiliation:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
David F. Natschke
Affiliation:
Acurex Corporation 4915 Prospectus Drive Durham, NC 27713
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We have been using crystallite size and strain data obtained from x-ray diffraction (XRD) peak profile analysis to predict the reactivity of solid calcium hydroxide sorbent with acid gases in combustion streams. The development of the method for relating reactivity to crystallite size and strain parameters obtained by the Warren-Averbach technique has been reported by Briden and Natschke and Briden.

The software used for the calculations requires that the XRD peak profile be corrected with a distribution function before application in the Warren-Averbach analysis. The reason for this according to the software developer, Gerhard Zorn, of the Siemens Munich Laboratory, is that he has shown that contributions to the profile from alien peaks and random noise can have serious effects on the Warren-Averbach analysis. The fitting of (he experimental XRD peak with a distribution function provides an effective means for filtering out both contributions.

Type
X. Crystallite Size/Strain Analysis
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1990

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