Ultrasound Technique

Products

Commercialisation and development of ultrasound spectroscopy based techniques for texture & structure of solid and liquid characterization

Commercialisation and development of non-contact ultrasound techniques for engineering applications (dynamic, rapid and on-line)

Applications

Non-contact, non-invasive, non-destructive evaluation application of the ultrasound spectroscopy technique to the mechanical, the petroleum, the biological and the food industry

Improvment

Ultrasound is a technique which allows investigation of materials in the dimensional range from the millimeters to the nanometers, depending of the frequency applied to the system. Ultrasonic waves are compressional waves interacting with the matter through the compressibility, the density and the scattering of the internal structure. Thus, information of the texture and the structure can be determined. The limitations are principally due to the possibilities of sending high frequency waves at longue distances. In fact, the  attenuation is increasing rapidly with distance.

The improvment our R&D laboratory brought to the technology is:

• new sensor design with higher energy output and accurate bandwidth
• the use of a real-time aquisition platform and a stronger signal processing method for initial developments
• the development of our own electronic for application at higher frequencies

Projects portfolio

We have a large portfolio of projects. Our universal electronic aquisition system is quickly re-designed and re-programmed for the investigation of new area of applications.  We work in the field of:

• Real-time non-contact measurement of thickness determination of submillimetric sheets with an absolute accuracy of 10 microns and a variation detection of 2 microns.
• Detection of submillimetric metallic particles at small concentrations in semi-viscous fluids
• Non-contact characterization of internal diameters of sub to millimetric tubes
• Characterization of objects at meter distances. The technology makes the difference between a human and an object. Application such as lift security in sensitive zones is foreseen.   
• The company is driving the start-up Nanotec Instruments which is looking for support for the Detection of  foreign bodies in liquid and solid food. This technique is capable to detect bones, plastics, iron, … during the process and once the food is packed. Knowing that most of the foreign bodies are organic and not detected by the actual X-Ray system, the ultrasound technique as large potantial.
• On-line composition of food products.
• Dynamic measurement of material behaviour such as foam expansion, vibrations, crystals growing, nucleation, destabilization of emulsions and suspensions,….
• Various imaging possibilites.

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