ANALYSIS of raw material particle sizes is a routine laboratory job where speed and accuracy are the most important considerations. Malvern Instruments says its Mastersizer 3000 particle analysis instrument offers a boost to productivity through extensive automation, and the benefits of streamlining software.
The instrument is suited to the analysis of wet or dry raw materials and commodities, and does not require extensive retraining of operators to be used successfully. Particles ranging in size from 10nm to 3500um can be analysed.
Auto-locking dispersion cells and automatic system initialisation makes switching between sample types a straightforward operation, says Malvern, and robust rapid analysis can be carried out even on polydisperse samples.
System software provides real-time feedback during method development, enabling a new analysis technique to be locked-down as a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) quickly to provide a validated method.