By L.U.M. GmbH
Additives are used for a wide variety of products in a wide variety of industries. Examples include binders, emulsifiers, flame retardants, corrosion inhibitors, lubricants, blowing agents and thickeners. Their individual particle and droplet properties can be characterized with the appropriate LUM measuring devices. After the addition of additives to products, the products are then examined in the original concentration in order to understand the desired effects of the additives and the underlying particle and other interactions and to use them for product improvement and further development or even reformulation. Rapid screening of additives, optimization of additive concentrations and rapid reformulation based on environmental and other standards are selected examples. Undiluted products are always examined in a very wide concentration and viscosity range with the appropriate LUM measuring device. From low-concentration, aqueous systems to bitumen, pigment and building material pastes. The range of investigations extends from real-time characterization under application conditions to accelerated dispersion analysis based on the acceleration concepts of temperature, tilting (boycott effect) and higher gravity.
