Bart Brouwer

Learn to recognise rotor and stator wear, distinguish its causes and determine when inspection, correction or replacement is necessary.

Discover how dead zones arise in a mixing tank and how you can detect and eliminate them through better circulation, measurements and suitable mixing design.

Discover how you can produce sauces and dressings with the right ingredient order, powder wetting, shear, bulk circulation and process control.

Discover how dust-free powder dumping into a hopper works with effective containment, extraction, filtration and a controlled dumping process.

Learn how to prevent bridging in a powder hopper by assessing powder properties, hopper geometry, outlet and feeder as one system.

Learn how you can wet powder and prevent lump formation through controlled dosing, direct liquid contact, good circulation and targeted shear.

Discover how to prevent agglomerates during dispersing by aligning powder feed, wetting, macromixing, shear and stabilisation.

Discover why halving mixing time rarely solves insufficient capacity and how the complete batch cycle reveals the true bottleneck.

Learn what ATEX is, how zones 0, 1, 2, 20, 21 and 22 work and which requirements apply to safe machines and potentially explosive processes.

Discover what homogenisation is, how mixing, dispersing and emulsifying differ, and how you determine the right process selection and endpoint criteria.