Articles and Case Studies from Fritsch GmbH

Additives in the textile industry

A dormant danger? Additives in the textile industry improve product properties or simplify processing. During the manufacture of textile fibres and the production of the garments made from the fibres, they pass through a great number of processing ...

Feb. 16, 2021 Dagmar Klein

Automatic reproducible sieve stack tensioning system!

For exact results and can be attached and used with any sieve shaker! The universal sieve clamping system TorqueMaster enables automatic and reproducible tensioning of the sieve stack on the sieve shaker during dry sieving with test sieves 200 ...

Dec. 15, 2020

High-Tech Particle Sizing

Reproducible Analysis of particle shape and size Whether in the field of production and quality control, research, development or the analytical laboratory, particle measurement is essential in many areas. This requires reproducible results, as ...

Aug. 21, 2020

Reliable representative samples in a very short time!

Fast, gentle comminution and homogenisation! The Knife Mill PULVERISETTE 11 provides a homogeneous sample in a very short time due to its special design. Each subsample taken from any location in the grinding vessel is representative for the ...

Jul. 2, 2020 Aaron Juchem

The Variable Speed Rotor Mill Can Be Used as a Cutting Mill

The PULVERISETTE 14 premium line is the only Variable Speed Rotor Mill on the market, which is also suitable for cutting. As a Cutting Mill it is ideal for fast, efficient pre- and fine comminution of soft to hard-tough, fibrous ...

Dec. 5, 2019

LASER PARTICLE SIZE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS

Laser diffraction - for quick and reliable determination of the particle size is almost an indispensable method in modern quality control. Areas of application cover practically all branches of industry. For example, laser diffraction can be ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Günther Crolly

FAST ANALYSIS OF PARTICLE SHAPE AND SIZE

Dynamic Image Analysis is a perfect method to utilize if not only the particle size of powders is to be determined, but if you also want to ascertain information about their shape. For this purpose the FRITSCH GmbH provides a functional, ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Günther Crolly

DRUG TESTING VIA HAIR ANALYSIS

WORKING WITH THE MINI-MILL PULVERISETTE 23 Hair is dissolved in certain acids and then analyzed via gas chromatography or the mass spectrometer. The dissolving in the acid is accelerated and improved through the enhancement of the ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Wolfgang Simon

COMMINUTION OF PILLS

THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMINUTION The process steps are divided into comminution, dissolution and ensuing analysis. In the analytical pharmacopoeia are besides the direct titration, especially the chromatographic methods such as ion chromatography, HPLC ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Leos Benes

VANADIUM – A METAL WITH UNLIMITED FIELDS OF APPLICATION

MANAGING THE ENERGY TRANSITION WITH NEW VANADIUM RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES The energy controversy moves society. Due to a lack of development, alternative energies can not be made available to the broad masses. A small step in this direction is the ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Leos Benes

COMMINUTION OF NUTS – GENERATION OF REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES

DETAILED SAMPLE PREPARATION OF NUTS ACCORDING TO REGULATION (EG) NO. 401/2006 WITH TIPS, APPROACHES AND PHOTOS OF THE INDIVIDUAL STEPS With the REGULATION (EG) no. 401/2006 of the COMMISSION of 23rd February 2006 binding standards for sampling ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Leos Benes

FOR QUALITY CONTROL PURPOSES NUTS HAVE TO ENDURE A GREAT DEAL

Distributors as well as consumer have a great interest in their products meeting quality standards. For chemical analysis and quality control is a diligent sample preparation as a prerequisite for a fine analysis essential, in order to observe the ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Leos Benes

COMMINUTION OF PLASTIC BEVERAGE BOTTLES

PACKAGING REGULATIONS MANDATE THE PROCESSING In the past, a lot of plastic was favoured in the steel and cement industry as a source of energy. With the rise of crude oil prices became - besides the thermal use - also the adaptation to new packaging ...

Oct. 8, 2019

PLANETARY BALL MILLS AS AN INSTRUMENT IN MECHANOCHEMISTRY

Mechanochemistry is a sub-group of physical chemistry and addresses the effects of mechanical energy on solids and the resulting chemical modifications. Here, FRITSCH Planetary Mills have been indispensable for a long time. HISTORY OF ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Leos Benes

PRODUCTION OF MIXTURES ON A LABORATORY SCALE - OFTEN A CHALLENGE

Probably one of the most difficult tasks was the fine distribution of pure liquid mercury in a mixture of fine solid metal powders. Already during the manual mixing with a spatula, with careless work methods without a problem up to 3 mm large ...

Oct. 8, 2019

QUALITY AND PROCESS ASSURANCE OF CLEAN ROOM CONCEPTS

Due to these facts, PET packaging and their production and packaging with so called clean room concepts have become more and more significant. A major advantage of the clean room technology compared to other methods for the reduction of germs of ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Holger Brecht

CREATION OF NANO-POWDERS

FRITSCH GmbH successfully launched and established the new Planetary Ball Mill PULVERISETTE 7 premium line. With this comminution concept FRITSCH considers customer needs wanting to comminute small samples up into the nano-range (1 nm = 10-9 ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Wolfgang Simon

INSITU ACQUISITION OF GRINDING PARAMETERS

FRITSCH'S PLANETARY MONO MILL PULVERISETTE 6 CLASSIC LINE In the laboratory sector planetary ball mills are usually utilised to reduce the size of a broad range of samples in batches at high energy. The milling principle of planetary ball ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Markus Bund

COMMINUTION OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS IN THE CEMENT INDUSTRY

The manufacturing of cement is a very energy intensive production. Here for the most part coal is utilized as an energy carrier. In the future, Schwenk Zementwerke KG, one of the largest cement and construction material manufacturers in Germany, is ...

Oct. 8, 2019 Wolfgang Simon

INFLUENCE OF PROPERTIES OF GRINDING BOWLS IN THE PLANETARY SYSTEM

A clean and constant wear on the inner grinding bowl surface is a question of the amount of grinding balls and size, material amount and size (coarse or fine), the grinding condition like wet or dry grinding, the grinding duration and the adjusted ...

Oct. 8, 2019

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