Contakt: Robert Hesse

Funding: European Regional Development Fund (EFRE)

The handling of granular material concerns dozens of billion tons of material worldwide. Approximately 50% of all goods once existed as granular form during their industrial production. The quality of the end product is strongly affected by the overall handling of the particles during the production processes. For that reason, the PowderReg project aims to optimize industrial processes with granular materials – from storage to the end product. While the project investigates the whole process until a compaction step (e.g. tabletting), the TU Kaiserslautern is focusing on the storage and flow properties of fine granular powders. This includes experimental and simulation-aided investigations of powder flow properties under high stresses (shear cells) and for free flowing regimes (powder rheometer) to predict flow profiles and mass flow rates during silo discharge.