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POWDER AND PARTICLE PROCESSING – Company Portfolio – THE ALPINE TESTING CENTER

	3000 m² floor space over 4 stories
	Wet and dry processing
	20 test engineers, laboratory technicians, process assistants and mechanics
	Over 60 state-of-the-art machines and systems on a production and laboratory / pilot scale
	Testing possibilities for just about every product

Technologies: comminution, air classification,sieving, mixing, drying, dedusting, nanoparticle design.

Around 500 customer trials are carried out every year aimed at optimum system configuration and determination of process-related guaranteed values

You can download the PDF application form to request a product trial here:

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THE ALPINE TEST LABORATORY

Laboratory performance range
Particle size analysis is one of the most important testing methods for every manufacturer of powdery materials. As a result, HOSOKAWA ALPINE's application testing centre in Augsburg includes a testing laboratory which is equipped with state-of-the-art measuring, testing and analysis apparatus.

For example:

PARTICLE CHARACTERISATION

A - Particle Size analysis

Sieving analysis
	Alpine air jet sieve 200 LS-N for exact and reproducible dry sieving analyses: range from 20 μm to approx. 4000 μm Alpine wet sieving unit: analysis range from 10 μm to 100 μm JEL 200 multi-deck test sieving machine: analysis range from approx. 100 μm to a few mm
Sedimentation analysis
	Micromeritics SediGraph 5100, analysis range from approx. 0.2 μm to 300 μm Typical applications: abrasives, minerals, etc. CPS disc-type centrifuge for fast and high testing resolution sedimentation analysis at up to 24,000 rpm, analysis range 10 nm - 50 μm
Laser diffraction units
	Malvern Mastersizer S, analysis range from approx. 0.1 μm to 800 μm Insitec, Malvern Instruments, on-line particle analysis from 0.5 to 200 μm Sympatec HELOS, 5 analysis ranges from approx. 0.1 μm to 2000 μm Horiba LA 950, analysis range 0.01 μm to 3000 μm
Counters
	Multisizer 3 COULTER COUNTER, Beckman Coulter; application: toner
Microscopic analyses
	SEM - scanning electron microscope JOEL Max. magnification to approx. 100,000 times Stereo microscopes
B - BET surface analysis
	Quantachrome NOVA 2000E , specific surface and pore size measurement
C - Particle Charge analysis
	PA particle analysers Field ESA – zeta potential measurement by means of electrokinetic sonic amplitude technology Measuring range of particles in a suspension: as small as desired up to 30 μm Particle Metrix CAS-02 Charge Analysing System - particle charge analyser for titration using streaming current potential as the monitor signal

MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION
	STA 6000 thermal laboratory system, Perkin Elmer; simultaneous system for the Thermogravimetric measurement and calorimetric analysis in the temperature range between 15°and 1000°C. Spectrum 100 FT-IR infrared spectroscopy, Perkin Elmer, measurements in transmission and reflection using a KBr pellet or an ATR unit DATA COLOR, ELREPHO Spectral photometer for whiteness measurements. Typical application: filler systems for the paper and plastics industries.
Other analysers and test units: Argon pycnometer for density analysis, stamping volumeter (drying lamps,muffle furnace, drying cabinets, samplers, ultrasound dispersion, etc.)


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