Current Analytical Techniques

Current analytical techniques in plating laboratories comprise:

• Hull cell
• Wet chemistry / automatic titrators
• Atomic absorption
• Spectrophotometry (UV/Vis)
• Sensadyne / surface tension
• CVS
• X-Ray Fluorescence
• Chromatography (GC, HPLC, IC)

There are problems with the current techniques:

• No one instrument can analyze for all components
• Many require technical training
• Some are difficult and time consuming
• Usually generate lab waste
• Increasingly expensive
• Most are performed off-line