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Buld Density System – BDS™
Buld Density System – BDS™
Description
With the BDS™ in your dry goods production line, you add valuable, cost-saving, and fully automatic analysis.
The BDS™ primarily measures the actual bulk density in all kinds of dry products. The dry product can be both hot or cold and for example pelleted, extruded, or powdered products. The BDS™ is placed at key stages of your production line, where the fully automatic technology eliminates manual resources for sampling and measuring. The analyzed product stays untouched and can be returned to your product flow. This way you avoid wasting product.
With a high frequency of analysis every minute, you can eliminate weight inconsistency problems. Your product weight stays under control all the way to the end of the line, eliminating over- or under-filled bags.
The high-frequency data also gives you superior control over your essential processing equipment’s ongoing performance, such as, for example, extruders. Detected variations can possibly mean mechanical failure.
The BDS™ can be fitted with a selection of secondary analyses:
- A moisture index module, that measures variations in the moisture percentage of the bulk product, which can prevent poor mouth-feel and packages with “clumped” products. The BDS™ gives you density and moisture analysis every minute.
- Visual product control is also a possibility with the addition of a camera sensor and collection of images for manual inspection. This enables sizing control.
- Finally, a temperature sensor can be installed. It can, for example, help you monitor significant temperature variations in your production line, which affects bulk density measurements. Or it can ensure that the product is cooled down and ready for packaging.
What are the Bulk Density System features?
The BDS™ measures the actual bulk density in the dry product, for both hot and cold extruded products.
- Size: 1.2 x 0.6 x 0.3 meters / 46 x 22 x 12 inches
- Frequency: Sampling and analysis are done a minimum of once a minute, and the data is collected in a CSV-file
- Analysis options: Bulk density, Moisture, Visual product control, and Temperature
- Continuous performance with our trusted Service Level Agreement (SLA)





