Facilities and equipment used within the field of flow property testing for silo design at POSTEC:

• Jenike shear cell and in-house program
• Angle of repose Tester
• Bi-axial and Uni-axial Testers
• Fluidisation testing rig (Figure 1)
• Various silos with exchangeable hopper and inserts up to 1 m diameter.
• Two full scale silos of 50 m³. One of the silos is cylindrical and the other rectangular (Figure 2)
• In-house software for simulation of flow in silos

Figure 1 Fluidisation tester

Figure 2 Silos at POSTEC