Analytics
Particle measurements
Particle size- Camsizer, Retsch GmbH
- photo-optical measurement of the particle size (ISO 13322-2)
- suitable for dry particles
- range between 30 µm and 30 mm
- Camsizer XT, Retsch GmbH
- photo-optical measurement of the particle size (ISO 13322-2)
- suitable for dry and wet particles
- range between 10 µm and 3 mm (gravity dispersion)
- range between 1 µm and 1.5 mm (air pressure dispersion)
- range between 1 µm and 0.6 mm (wet dispersion)
- Vibratory Sieve Shaker, Fritsch GmbH
- Gas pycnometer, Ultrapycnometer 1000, Quantachrome GmbH & Co. KG
- operated with helium
- Gas pycnometer, Minidens TCO, Grabner Instruments
- operated with air
- Pycnometer, GeoPyc 1360, Micromeritics GmbH
- operated with free-flowing powder (Dry Flow)
- Penetrometer PNR 20, Petrotest Instruments GmbH & Co KG
- Measurement of compressibility and tensile strength of granules up to 100 N
- Desktop REM „Phenom“, Phenom-World BV
- magnification: 20 to 24000
- Desktop REM „Phenom G2 Pro“, Phenom-World BV
- magnification: 20 to 45000
- evaluation of the pictures using “Phenom Pro Suite”
- Leica TCS SPE, Leica Microsystems
- 3 Solid State Laser (488 nm, 532 nm, 635 nm)
- tuneable spectral detection from 430 to 750 nm
- spectral resolution 5 nm
- Contour GT-K0, Bruker
- Measurement of 3D surface structures
- automatic adjustment of objectives
- XY-resolution: 3 µm
- Z-resolution: VSI 6 nm / PSI 0.008 nm
- CT-ALPHA, ProCon X-ray GmbH
- sample size up to 300 mm
- exposure of the sample using up to 160 kV
- max. resolution (voxel) up to 0.6 µm
- Visualizing the particle structure and calculation of characteristic parameters (e.g. porosity, fractal dimension, etc.) using MAVI software (Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics)
- Highspeed camera, HighSpeedStar 3-1K, LaVision GmbH
- CMOS Sensor
- 1024x1024 Pixel
- 12 GB RAM
- Evaluation using DaVis Software, LaVision GmbH
Analysis of particle moisture content and drying kinetics
Sorption isotherms- DVS, DVS Advantage, Surface Measurement Systems Ltd.
- Levitator
- contactless drying of single droplets (convective)
- Measurement of volumetric flow rates and gas moisture contents
- Evaluation of geometric changes of the single droplet using a combination of microscopes and cameras
- Magnetic suspension balance
- Investigation of single particle drying kinetics (drying curve)
- sample size up to 8 g
- resolution: 1 µg
- Drying oven, ULP 500, Memmert GmbH & Co. KG
- Vacuum drying oven, VO 400, Memmert GmbH & Co. KG
- Moisture analyzer, MA 45/MA 100, Sartorius
- Coulometer, WDS 400, Sartorius
- Near-Infrared-Spectrometer (FT-NIR), Matrix-F, Bruker
- Measurements in contact and contactless
- suitable for lab-scale measurements
- Near-Infrared-Spectrometer (FT-NIR), ANTARIS II At-Line Analysator, Thermo Fisher Scientific GmbH
- suitable for measurements in the production scale
- including RESULT software
- Desktop NMR Spectrometer, Minispec MQ60, Bruker
Thermal and chemical material properties
Glass transition temperature- DSC, Netzsch GmbH
- DSC/DTA, Netzsch GmbH
Gas measurement equipment
Gas moisture content measurement using Dew-Point Meters and Infrared-Spectroscopy- Optidew Vision, Michell Instruments GmbH
- NGA 2000 MLT 3, Rosemount Inc.