Measurement of Adhesion Force Between Particles by the Drop Test Method

Principal Investigator: Prof. M. Ghadiri, Dr A. Hassanpour
Co-Investigator(s): Mr U. Zafar, Mr M. Pasha, Dr C. Hare
Sponsor: Sellafield Ltd, EPSRC
Status: Ongoing (Sep 2009 - present)

Abstract

Measurement of the adhesive force is of great interest in a large number of applications, such as processing of cohesive powders. There are various methods for this interparticle forces, e.g. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and the centrifugal method, but most of them are very costly and time consuming.