SBIR Phase I: Automated Foam Index Test Instrumentation

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目获取信息，然后设计了第一个商用自动泡沫指数测试（AFIT）仪器。AFIT自动定量测定泡沫和乳化剂的稳定性或不稳定性。它创新了工业生产系统中的发泡和泡沫稳定性测量。目前，泡沫和乳化剂的稳定性是通过视觉或机械观察来测量的。该研究利用泡沫和乳化剂的基本物理和化学行为来确定气泡的稳定性和破裂活性。使用计算机控制的实验方法来获取和统计评估数据，然后与使用目前接受的手动方法获得的数据进行关联。虽然第一阶段的研究重点是确定水泥和火山灰泡沫指数的仪器，但AFIT是一套仪器的通用名称，它将影响食品和消费品专家和制造商、废水处理设施、矿产工业、石油/石油工业、阻燃剂制造商和饮料制造商。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project acquires information for and then designs the first commercial Automated Foam Index Test (AFIT) instrument. AFIT automatically and quantitatively determines the stability or instability of foams and emulsifiers. It innovates foaming and foam stability measurements in industrial production systems. Currently, foam and emulsifier stabilities are measured using visual or mechanical observations. The research uses basic physical and chemical behaviors of foams and emulsifiers to identify bubble stability and breakup activity. Computer-controlled experimental methods are used to acquire and statistically assess data, and then correlations are made with data obtained using currently accepted, manual methods.Although this Phase I research focuses on an instrument for determining the foam indices of cements and pozzolans, AFIT is a generic name for a suite of instruments that would impact food and consumer product specialists and manufacturers, wastewater treatment facilities, minerals industries, petroleum/oil industries, fire retardant manufacturers and beverage manufacturers.