MicrOptik provides complete units to measure contamination, granulation and color simultaneously by combining Morphious™ C1, Morphious™ V1 and Morphious™ CMS in one rack. The analyzer can be hooked up with the granulation sampler in the finishing section of a plastic resin production plant. We provide complete integration of the Analyzer systems with process control.
All sorts of defects can be visualized and quantified in a simple manner through 2 dimensional morphometric plots. This procedure appears to be very useful in characterizing tails (noses, clusters, smears, sheets, chunks, junk), clusters of Neatly Cut Pellets (sticking pellets, marriages, doublets, triplets), melt fracture (shark skin, fines), partially frozen orifice holes (noodles, macaroni, dog bones, smalls, fines).
Morphious™ C1 – Contamination analyzer for Powders & Granules
This system enables impurities and foreign material to be analyzed in powders and granules. This top of a range system is equipped with high resolution camera allowing to view and document the results in the best possible quality. It’s so easy to operate it that even non-qualified personnel can provide a measurement! C1 Powder & Granules Analyzer guarantees high throughput and is capable to inspect up to 1 kg of powders per hour and up to 12 kg of pellets per hour. It’s extremely important that the instrument can be applied for inspecting materials on the production line using a so called bypass system. That means you can analyze granules during the production process thus efficiently increase the output quality.
The Morphious™ C1 system can be extended to a full sorting system.
Morphious™ V1 – Pellet Size & Shape Distribution analyzer system
The Morphious™ V1 Pellet Size & Shape Distribution analyzer system is a top of the line analyzer system to determine in real time the morphometry of granules. The system uses a hopper to collect the samples on a vibration table where the granules are dispersed and prepared for a free fall. During the free fall a camera system catches all (morphometry) details of the granules. With software the Critical to Quality (CTQ) parameters are displayed to the operator. The user can define all sorts of criteria which are useful for the characterization of the granules for a specific application. The system allows to inspect an equivalent of 12 kg per hour with all granules captured. This means that a great deal of computer capacity is needed for such analysis. The data is stored in databases and can be retrieved in an easy way. The user can define all sorts of recipes relevant for a quality control application. Infinite graphical possibilities are offered to characterize the quality of the granules. The sophisticated software on the Morphious V1 systems allows extensive inspection of Critical to Quality inspection of all possible matters related with the quality of the granulation production process.
Morphious™ CMS – Color Measurement System
The CMS system is designed to measure color on-line during a pellet stream falling down through a tube with an optical window allowing a reflective measurement to be carried out. Color Measuring System is a fully automatic system for the measurement of the color of polymer granulates. The compact and robust design is suitable for laboratory as well as production applications. The system uses a hopper to collect the samples passed through a channel with a color spectrometer to record and define the color spectrum of the granulates.
