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Last Updated on Monday, 23 September 2013 12:11

We develop & produce the world's BEST SAND SEDIMENTATION 
laboratory instruments & software

Ensure the SUCCESS of your projects & career with our lab PRODUCTS: 

instruments

• Sand Sedimentation Analyzer, MacroGranometer™, Advanced Settling Tube —  the best sedimentation analyzer of sand sized material. It measures mass frequency distribution of settling rate and converts it into that of shape-specified grain size, grain density, grain Reynolds' number etc.. Schematic view of the Sedimentation System, the weighing component, is on the right.
• Sand Sedimentation Separator™, 3S™ —  the world's only settling tube capable of isolating at least 25 settling velocity fractions (can be extended by 5 additional fractions during sedimentation). The separations are quantitative, i.e., no grain is lost. The fractions are specified with the resolution of 0.01 PSI. From monosized fractions, it precisely isolates density fractions, such as heavy minerals and porous microfossils (foraminifera etc.), without using heavy liquids. 

software

• SedVarDP™ —  Distribution Processing software converts independent distribution variables such as settling rate (Laboratory, Local, Standard), shape specified grain size, grain density, Reynolds Number; constants of sedimentation defined as distilled water at 0°C through 100°C, salt water defined by salinity and temperature, or any liquid defined by kinetic viscosity and density, gravity acceleration given numerically or calculated from latitude and altitude. SedVarDP™ is part of the MacroGranometer™ system
• SedVarNC™ —   Number Conversion software – mutually converts the sedimentation variables settling rate, shape specified grain size, grain density, SF shape factor, Reynolds Number; constants of sedimentation defined as distilled water at 0°C through 100°C, salt water defined by salinity and temperature, or any liquid defined by kinetic viscosity and density, gravity acceleration given numerically or calculated from latitude and altitude. SedVarNC™ is part of the MacroGranometer™ system
• Shape™ —  defines the measured PSI settling rate distribution (and manually entered PHI sieve size distribution) by a sum of 1 to 5 Gaussian components. It can match the PSI-PHI couples by their inverse function (percentiles); and, from the couples, it calculates Shape Factor values, which may be used as variable SF in the SedVarDP’s PHI and Reynolds' number distributions. 

Our SERVICES (available soon):

analyzing your samples:

• enjoy the results of the world's best instrument without the expense of purchase & operation..
• send your samples to our facility and receive our professional analyses via electronic media. 

on-line processing your analyses: 

• prepare your numeric data and/or analyses for our simple format
• submit your formatted data to our secure server
• receive immediate results of your processed analyses

Applications in:  

geology:

• petroleum geology & basin analysis through facial and stratigraphic correlation; reservoir evaluation; enhanced recovery, heavy oil & tar sand production
• micropalaeontology & stratigraphy —  isolation of porous microfossils, such as foraminifers & conodonts; correlation by finest textural features
• prospecting for heavy mineral (placer) deposits, such as gold, platinum group minerals, rare earth minerals, diamond, titanium & tin ores, zircon, garnets (see Distribution Decomposition)

oceanography:

• coastal processes & protection studies 
• tracing sand movement, particularly due to onshore currents (litoral drift) through mixed distribution components 

ecology:

• coastal protection, slope protection, ground water & contamination modeling, capillary barriers, permeability prediction, etc.

mechanical & chemical engineering (in German: mechanische Verfahrenstechnik)

• dispersity analyses of sand-sized materials in chemical industry

quality control

• abrasives such as diamond, corundum, silicon carbide, boron nitride
• filter & foundry sands —  sedimentational grain characteristics correlate with those of permeability because they are consistently related to specific surface (in contrast to sieve grain characteristics)

forensic research & analysis

• identification of small sand samples (as small as 0.1 g) — by Gaussian distribution components, like finger imprints and DNA to identify a person

astronomy:

• dispersity (size) sand analyses of disintegrable space material such as meteorites (chondrites), comets and asteroids, and collected coarse (sand-sized) interplanetary dust 
• dispersity (settling velocity) analyses of wind-blown sand from Mars – no more science fiction …