{"id":2300,"date":"2023-07-31T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2023-07-31T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T17:32:15","slug":"positive-material-identification-test-pmi-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=2300","title":{"rendered":"Positive material identification test (PMI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The positive material identification test \u2013 PMI test \u2013 serves as a proof of the alloying constituents present in the material, confirming the melting analysis of the material contained in the 3.1 certificate.<br\/>There are two different test procedures common for thermowells:<br\/>PMI test: X-ray fluorescence analysis of the thermowell stem<br\/>1. PMI test: X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF)<br\/>X-ray fluorescence analysis uses X-rays to stimulate the atoms of the thermowell material to produce natural radiation, without damaging the surface of the metal. The wavelength and intensity of the emitted radiation is, in turn, a measure of the alloy\u2019s constituent elements and their concentration.<br\/> <a href=\"http:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\">Bravery<\/a> : Spectrographic analysis on a WIKA model TW10 flange thermowell<br\/>2. PMI test: Spectrographic analysis (OES)<br\/>With spectrographic analysis (\u201cOptical Emission Spectroscopy\u201d), an arc is generated between the thermowell surface and a tungsten electrode in the test instrument, and the spectrum of this arc enables the alloy\u2019s elements to be identified \u2013 both qualitatively and quantitatively.<br\/>For the OES, it does leave a characteristic burn mark of approx. 5 mm diameter on the workpiece.<br\/>Burn mark from the arc on a workpiece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The positive material identification test \u2013 PMI test \u2013 serves as a proof of the alloying constituents present in the material, confirming the melting analysis of the material contained in the 3.1 certificate.There are two different test procedures common for thermowells:PMI test: X-ray fluorescence analysis of the thermowell stem1. PMI test: X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF)X-ray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}