The research and development is being carried out at the UK’s University of Bradford by Professor Hadj Benkreira and Dr Raj Patel in collaboration with Dr Martin Gale, formerly of RAPRA Technology (Shawbury) now Visiting Professor. They have been developing a miniature mixer (5-25grams batch) that incorporates a set of integral instruments to monitor the properties of materials as they are being mixed.
The instruments work in real time during the mixing process and their output is captured to a PC for subsequent analysis.
Software is being written so that the analysis can be performed simultaneously with the mixing and perhaps even used to interactively control the mixer itself.
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