We develop & produce the world's BEST SAND SEDIMENTATION 
laboratory instruments & software

Ensure the SUCCESS of your projects & career with our products:

lab instruments

• MacroGranometer™, Sand Sedimentation Analyzer, Advanced Settling Tube —  the best sedimentation analyzer of sand sized material. It measures mass frequency distribution of settling rate and converts them into those of shape specified grain size, grain density, etc. Schematic view of the Sedimentation System is on the right.
• Sand Sedimentation Separator™, 3S™ —  the world-wide only settling tube which isolates at least 25 settling velocity fractions (can be extended by 5 additional fractions during sedimentation). The separations are quantitative, i.e. no grain is lost. The fractions are specified with the resolution of 0.01 PSI. From monosized fractions, it precisely isolates heavy minerals without using heavy liquids, and porous microfossils such as foraminifers etc.

software

• SedVarDP™ —  Distribution Processing software converts independent distribution variables such as PSI settling rate (Laboratory, Local, Standard), PHI grain size, LRs grain density, LRe Reynolds Number. SedVarDP™ is part of the MacroGranometer™ system
• SedVarNC™ —   Number Conversion software – mutually converts the sedimentation variables PSI settling rate, PHI grain size, LRs grain density, LSF shape factor, LRe Reynolds Number. SedVarNC™ is part of the MacroGranometer™ system
• Shape™ —  defines the measured settling rate distribution (and manually entered sieve size distribution) by 1 to 5 Gaussian components. It can match them by their inverse function (percentiles); and, from the PHI-PSI couples, it calculates pertinent Shape Factor values, which may be used as variable SF in the SedVarDP’s PHI and Reynolds' number calculation. 

We can also analyze your samples: 

• enjoy the results of the world's best instrument without the expense of purchase & operation..
• send your samples to our facility and receive our professional analyses via your choice of electronic media.

Applications in:  

geology:

• petroleum geology & basin analysis through facial and stratigraphic correlation; reservoir evaluation; enhanced recovery, heavy oil & tar sand production
• micropalaeontology & stratigraphy —  isolation of porous microfossils, such as foraminifers & conodonts; correlation by finest textural features
• prospecting for heavy mineral (placer) deposits, such as gold, platinum group minerals, rare earth minerals, diamond, titanium & tin ores, zircon, garnets

oceanography:

• coastal processes & protection studies 
• tracing sand movement, particularly per onshore currents (litoral drift)

ecology:

• coastal protection, slope protection, ground water & contamination modeling, capillary barriers, permeability prediction, etc.

mechanical & chemical engineering ( in German: mechanische Verfahrenstechnik)

• dispersity analyses of sand-sized materials in chemical industry

quality control

• abrasives such as diamond, corundum, silicon carbide, boron nitride
• filter & foundry sands —  sedimentational grain characteristics correlate with those of permeability because they are consistently related to specific surface (in contrast to sieve grain size)

forensic research & analysis

• Gaussian distribution components identify precisely samples as small as 0.1 g, like finger imprints and DNA identify a person

astronomy:

• Dispersity (size) analyses of disintegrable space material such as meteorites (chondrites), comets and asteroids, and collected coarse (saand-sized) interplanetary dust 
• Dispersity (settling velocity) analyses of wind-blown sand from Mars – no more science fiction …