Besides the full scale test lab, there are other components to the first floor of the Kansas State University Bulk Solids Innovation Center. The first floor contains laboratory spaceand a blower room, while the outside features a silo and dust collector for the facility.
| Room # | Description | Supplier | Purpose |
| 103 | Conference/Room | Â |
Factory automation control room can be used to monitor and control the full scale systems from a remote location. Also serves as a conference room with a screen for presentations. |
| 103 | Control Hardware | Rockwell Automation |
Controls and computer server for automation monitoring, data acquisition, instrument communications, and server. |
| 103 | Control Room Concept & Programming | Coperion K-Tron |
Design and programming of the controls automation, monitoring, data acquisition, and communications concept. |
| 107 | Lab Manager's Office | Â | Â |
| 116 | Future Laboratory for KSU and its Research Sponsors | Â |
Possible uses include measurement of material properties; new tests and computer modeling to predict actual behavior; improving flow properties of a company’s particular material; system design recommendations; improving blending performance; reducing degradation; improving air usage control; reducing energy costs to convey material; making gravity flow more reliable; designing equipment to match a material’s requirements. |
| 117 | Shared Instrumentation Lab (Products Below) | Â |
Includes apparatus and instruments for industry standard tests such as bulk density measurement, particle size distribution, and flow property analysis. |
| 117 | Powder Flow Tester | Brookfield Engineering Laboratories Inc. |
The PFT measures powder properties, including flowability, wall friction, bulk density, time consolidated flow function. |
| 117 | Particle Size Analyzer | Hosokawa Micron Powder Systems |
Mikro Air Jet Sieve measures particle size and size distribution ranging from 20 to 4,750 microns. |
| 117 | Powder Characteristics Tester | Hosokawa Micron Powder Systems |
The PT-X measures powder properties, including angle of repose, cohesion, compressibility, aerated and packed density, uniformity, dispersibility. |
| 118 | Coperion K-Tron Lab | Â |
Instrumentation and bench scale tests for measuring and predicting material properties. |
| 119 | Researcher Office/Cubicles | Â | Â |
| 121 | Full Scale Laboratory | Â |
Equipment and controls for measurement of actual bulk solids behaviors including storage, conveying, gravity flow, blending, segregation, degradation, dust collection, safety, and air pollution control. |
| 122 | Storage and maintenance room | Â | Storage of parts, tool room. |
| 123 | Blower and motor control room | Â |
This room holds equipment that can be loud or hot, and motor controls. |
