Siberian students offer new analyzer to industries from aluminum to cement

Irkutsk students in Siberia have developed a new analyzer for manufacturing supervision, which is said to be accurate and speed up measurements by four times.

Irkutsk State Technical University (ISTU) in Siberia announced earlier this week that its undergraduates from the department of chemistry and metallurgy have developed a new analyzer to measure specific surface for disperse and porous materials, which is called Sorbtometer. Alexei Nosenko and Yuri Podkamenny, the developers, are members of ISTU?s Avtomatika scientific and engineering center for students. According to Mr. Podkamenny, specific surface must often be measured for disperse and porous materials during manufacturing supervision. It enables specialists to improve the properties of substances under inspection. ?The device? enhances operational safety because air is used as carrier gas instead of helium, which eliminates the risk of exposure to high-pressure vessels,? he underscored. Mr. Nosenko said that according to most recent prototype Sorbtometer tests, ?its use speeds up measurements by four times? while keeping relative error within ± 5%, and ?the cost of inspection is reduced by five times...