Ultrasound particle size analyzer OPUS

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OPUS is successfully operating in crystallization, grinding or homogenization processes and proves ultrasonic extinction’s manifold performances. With various applications, OPUS is repeatedly revealing new insights – not only in production lines but also in pilot plants and lab settings. For applications, whose typical range of concentration is between 5 and 50 % by volume, ultrasonic extinction (UE) provides an outstanding performance for particle size distribution analysis of suspension and emulsions. Even paste-like particulate systems with concentrations up to 70 % by volume can be analysed. Using sound instead of light waves, ultrasonic extinction is independent of the suspension’s or emulsion’s level of transparency. Hence, totally opaque samples like water droplets in crude oil, mineral slurries or coal particles in pitch can be analysed. Furthermore, materials and products which allow no sampling or dilution without facing destruction due to their stability, rank as standard application. The control and evaluation software using intuitive and high-performance methods provides calculation and display of all relevant and characteristic size distribution values.