Carmen Kaiser Brugmann

Biography:

Carmen worked for PPC Cement from the period of 2000 to 2019, as a Research Chemist then a Senior Chemist and as an XRF Specialist. She has 19 years of working experience.

The work done at PPC cement entailed application support on all XRF instruments in the Group.

Quality assurance is required at all production sites to be able produce accurate and reliable analytical data for process control. In order to achieve this, she ensured that sample preparation for all X-ray fluorescence (XRF) follows best operating practices, calibration curves on the XRF instruments are matrix matched and minerologcally representative of the materials used in the process.

She conducted reviews on XRF, sample preparation and quality best operating methods throughout all PPC plants, ranging from inland, costal and International sites located in other African countries.
Previous positions held have been as a Senior Chemist and later Research Chemist in the Chemistry Reference Laboratory at the ISO 17025 Accredited Group laboratory Operations.

Her knowledge and vast experience is on working with various types of XRF instruments ranging from Energy Dispersive, Wavelength Dispersive, Sequential and Simultaneous Spectrometers.
Carmen has extensive knowledge and experience in other analytical techniques including ICP-MS, ICP-OES, XRD, FTIR Ion Chromatography and general wet chemistry. Her problem solving skills and analytical knowledge in XRF spectrometry, wet chemistry analysis and sample preparation methods is key to providing much needed technical support to the Group on various different types of analytical equipment used for testing various materials in the cement industry.

She also provided software support to the Group on the XRF instrument types, ranging from Thermo , PAnalytical, Bruker and Rigaku.

She provided training (XRF spectrometry, wet chemistry and sample preparation best practices) to the Group Quality personnel. Carmen is a dedicated hard worker who pays attention to detail and possesses strong analytical skills. Currently Carmen is the XRF Application Scientist for Rigaku. The support is provided to International customer under the EMEA countries.