Ultrasonic materials characterisation
Understanding how ultrasound can be used to monitor material properties.
Ultrasound may be used to characterise the properties of solids and liquid materials, important for industrial process monitoring and control.
Wide-band ultrasound absorption and phase velocity spectra can yield insights into the state of a process, such as particle volume fraction, density, material degradation, sedimentation, creaming, and particle size.
We use a range of laboratory ultrasound test-cells to enable measurement through liquid media, and over 25 years experience in signal processing of ultrasound responses which we can embed into bespoke software solutions.
On-line process monitoring
Ultrasound is ideally suited to the monitoring of fluids and particulate mixtures, and unlike optical methods is suitable for high concentration, opaque fluids.
The technology is well suited to capturing high speed transient process events such as gas entrapment and cavitation, as well as monitoring the long term process trends of a fluid system.
