High-performance technical resources
RHEONIS progressively equiped its 300m2 facilities with equipments adapted for the implementation of its methodology and technical methods. With more than 450 000€ of material investiments and 7 years of R&D, our technical resources allow us to deal successfully with behavioural and transformation issues in more than 20 industrial sectors.
Dedicated R&D Laboratory
Our laboratory is fully equiped for the study of couplings between matter-product-process-application :
- High-performance rheometers (TA Instruments, Anton-Paar) and a unique expertise for behaviour and transformation of powder, non-newtonian fluids, pastes, phase-changing products, semi-solids and soft material under various constraints and environment
- Modules for simulating industrial conditions (shear constraints, compression, thermal effects -from -40°C to 450°C-, humidity,…)
- Optical techniques
- Testbeds, specific measurement gometries and micro-pilot techniques (granulation, cooking,…)
- Formulation, preparation and stirring up to 1kg
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Customized experimental systems
We develop specific expertimental systems for our needs as well as our clients’ : testbed, modules and measurement geometries for rheometry and thermomechanical instruments.
More sophisticated systems are instrumented micro-pilots, such as for the study of granulation, cooking, aging, polymer degradation…
RHEONIS is equiped with a workshop, 3D printing and skilled for electrotechnics, interface and signal treatment.
Data treatment and modeling
We hold a strong expertise in experiments, measurement and data interpretation with respect to on-site behaviours. We usually complement such approaches with modeling, from rheological modeling (Herschel-Bulkley, Casson, Houska,…) to thermomechanical process or semi-theoretical models.
Our team is skilled in statistics as a side-tool for our studies of influencing factors in most complex cases, through classical or data-science oriented approaches (PCA analysis, clustering,…).
Techniques coming from engineering or mechanical design are also part of our approaches.
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Technical partners
We maintain privileged relationships with instrumentation, ingredient or equipment providers, some of them with whom we develop R&D projects.
We sometimes call as well on technical partners for specific resources.