Inside the Bulk Solids Innovation Center - First Floor

Room #

Description

Supplier

Purpose

103

Conference/Room

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

116

Future Laboratory for KSU and its Research Sponsors

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)

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

Instrumentation and bench scale tests for measuring and predicting material properties.

119

Researcher Office/Cubicles

121

Full Scale Laboratory

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

Storage of parts, tool room.

123

Blower and motor control room

This room holds equipment that can be loud or hot, and motor controls.