Friability Tester

Friability Tester

DW-CSD01 Friability Tester

A friabilometer is used to test the physical strength and durability of materials like pharmaceutical tablets and malt grains. It is primarily used in two main fields: the pharmaceutical industry to ensure tablets can withstand shipping and handling by measuring their tendency to chip or break, and the malting industry to monitor the quality and modification of malt after drying.

Pharmaceutical use

• Quality control:

  Tests the mechanical strength and abrasion resistance of non-coated tablets.

• Durability assessment:

  Determines how well a tablet can withstand forces like vibration, rubbing, and impact during manufacturing, packaging, and shipping.

• Chip and breakage analysis:

  Evaluates the tendency of tablets to chip or powder by subjecting them to mechanical stress in a rotating drum and measuring the resulting mass loss.

Malting industry use

• Malt quality monitoring:

  Assesses the brewing quality of malt immediately after drying.

• Modification assessment:

  Measures the “friability” or how easily the grain can be crushed, which indicates the extent of modification during the malting process.

• Process control:

  Helps malthouses detect and correct irregularities in the malting process by providing immediate feedback on malt quality.

• Consistency control:

  Allows breweries to check the quality of malt upon delivery and adjust mixtures to ensure consistency.

Product manual The friability tester is an instrument specially produced for testing the friability of tablets. The inner diameter of the instrument is 286 mm, the depth is 39 mm, the rotation speed is 25±1 rpm, and one side is a transparent wear-resistant plastic cylinder that can be opened. There is an arc-shaped spacer extending from the center to the outer wall. It is 80mm±1mm. When the cylinder rotates, the tablet will roll, and once the cylinder rotates, the tablet will roll or slide to the cylinder wall or other tablets. Friability Tester Friability Tester Instrument parameters

Friability Tester