Particle Size Measurement
Category: Short in-company course
Software: A simple expert system for the
selection of the method for particle size measurement
Suggested Programme
- Introduction to the course, properties of particulate materials, importance
of sampling, particle populations, distributions of size, shape and density,
dispersion of powders
- Particle size in quality control, control charts, microscopy (optical
and electron) and image analysis
- Particle-light interaction methods: laser diffraction methods, nephelometric
and light scattering methods, photon correlation spectroscopy and laser
Doppler anemometer methods, light blockage counters, time-of-transition
- Gravitational and centrifugal sedimentometers, classification methods
of particle size analysis, aerodynamic sizing
- The Coulter principle and its further developments, hydrodynamic chromatography
and flow field fractionation, mean size from surface area measurements
- Sieving (wet and dry), standard test sieves, electro- formed sieves,
mesh obscuration, end point, automatic sieving, on-line methods.
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