Case study – R&D study of instrumental simulation of powder segregation for formulation improvement
Agribusiness
Client type: SME
Service contact: R&D
The Customer is subject to phenomena of segregation of powders food inducing various difficulties in process and bagging and calls on RHEONIS to quantify the phenomenon by its instrumental techniques to support the improvement of the formulation of its products.
The power of instrumental techniques for studying powders on a rheometer
RHEONIS implements instrumental techniques for powders in a cell adapted to the rheometer. The adjustment of instrumental protocols makes it possible to activate the segregation phenomenon in a controlled manner and to follow its dynamics at the level of the collective properties of the powders and thus to extract the discriminating parameters. The systematic analysis of customer samples allows us to quantify the importance of the phenomenon.
The main stages of the study:
- Adjustment of instrumental protocols on powder cell
- Comparative Instrumental Analysis of Customer Samples
- Interpretation of measurement data with regard to the customer problem
- Recommendations of the most effective formulations with regard to segregation
Intervention System Gauge
Instrumental simulation of segregation to make the formulation more reliable
In the absence of means of quantifying the phenomenon of segregation - the approaches of Carr, Haussner, flowability or granulometry not giving results -, the Client is forced to proceed by the usual empirical approaches to improve its formulations and limit segregation . The instrumental simulation of segregation makes it possible to quantify the dynamics of the phenomenon and to extract the behavior parameters making it possible to discriminate the tendency to segregation in support of the Customer's formulation improvement process.
The advantages of instrumental simulation of powder segregation for formulation
Objective quantification of the segregation properties of powders
Comparative evaluation of Customer formulations
Low material consumption
Possible correlations to formulation factors
Recommendations on a scientific basis
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Last Updated on February 14, 2022 by Vincent Billot