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PMSL's Lab & Testing Services

Source: Philadelphia Mixing Solutions
Our engineers and lab technicians work with you to deliver the performance and dependability required to maintain your competitive edge. Fluid dynamics is demystified
Making Unknowns Known

Philadelphia Mixing Solutions believes tests should take place in a lab, not after site installation where the downtime will cost real time and money. Our engineers and lab technicians work with you to deliver the performance and dependability required to maintain your competitive edge. Fluid dynamics is demystified. Visit our lab and we will show you the facts and figures!

  • Optimize your process and maximize your profit!
  • Eliminate costly surprises and what-ifs!
  • Discover problems and fix them!
  • Improve your processes!

If you are looking for a facility to test your mixing equipment and process, Philadelphia Mixing Solutions has the largest, most fully-staffed, and continually operating lab facility in the world. Our mixing experts have over 200 years of collective mixer experience to ensure your application performance is handled correctly.

We offer scale-down/scale-up test services. We test power and torque levels as well as impeller designs and geometric ratios to achieve the optimal solution for your requirements. We can simulate your exact basins and/or vessels so that our test will work the same way as your plant - guaranteed!

Philadelphia Mixing Solutions owns a full-scale testing tank in which the characteristics of any and all aerators are constantly researched. With these test facilities an optimal aeration selection can be realized. Furthermore the aerators proven are supplied with test certificates.

Dimensions of the PMSL test tank:

  • 50 x 60 ft (15.25 X 18m) (LxW)
  • 32 ft (9.75 m) water depth
  • 750,000 gallon max. (2,839,058.85 liter)
The application of partition walls and the adjustment of height of the water enables Philadelphia Mixing Solutions to test aerators under any circumstances.

Testing possibilities :

  • oxygenation capacity
  • power consumption and starting current
  • efficiencies
  • axial and radial forces
  • vibration and noise level
  • flow velocities