Jenike & Johanson services

Material testing is critical for successful delivery of an engineered solution that meets your powder or bulk solids handling needs.  Without accurate bulk material flow properties, equipment and system design will be based on guess-work.  Can you afford to risk your project’s success on limited material data, questionable assumptions, and equipment designs that will provide poor flow, segregation, and product or process non-uniformity?

A site visit by one of our engineers is a valuable component of an engineered bulk material handling solution.  Collection of accurate information is vital for a thorough root cause investigation into your needs such as: poor material flow, segregation, product or process non-uniformities, and equipment failures. Our projects start with a review of your unique material, powder, or bulk solids storage, processing, and engineering needs. Jenike & Johanson engineers routinely conduct site visits to manufacturing plants, mines, and R&D facilities around the world with short notice. We have the required skills and experience to efficiently collect vital project information, work safely in your facility, and effectively communicate our immediate findings to you and your team.

DEM (discrete element method) is a numerical technique that models the interaction between individual particles and boundaries to predict bulk solids behavior.  This tool can easily model moving boundaries and is used to gain better understanding of particle flow dynamics.  The knowledge is then applied to design more efficient equipment, thus improving process efficiency and product quality.

Jenike & Johanson’s structural group includes engineers with extensive project experience in design and analysis of bulk material storage structures used in power, chemical, mining, food, and agricultural industries.  Our group consists of civil and structural engineers who have decades of structural engineering experience factoring in unique bulk material behavior and external loading conditions such as wind or seismic.