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FOAMSCAN™

Foam Analyzers and Defoamer Testers

FOAMSCAN™ – The Most Accurate Foam Analyzer for Your Laboratory

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Liquid foams are ubiquitous in industrial processes as well as in everyday life. The ability to generate controlled liquid foams and to understand the mechanisms behind their destabilization is crucial for optimizing formulations.

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FOAMSCAN™ provides science-based foam analysis, helping you design, optimize, and validate foam-forming or foam-preventing products and processes with confidence.

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Thanks to its modular design, FOAMSCAN™ can analyze foams generated by Gas injection, mechanical stirring or External foam generation devices

 

Combining advanced image analysis with conductivity techniques, a single measurement with FOAMSCAN™ delivers reliable data to assess:

  • Foaming capacity and foamability

  • Foam density

  • Foam stability and drainage

  • Antifoam effectiveness

  • Foam structure: Bubble size and distribution

 

With 100% software control, FOAMSCAN™ ensures reproducible, precise, and process-relevant measurements, making it the reference tool for laboratory foam analysis.

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FOAMSCAN™ Foam Analyzer

FOAMSCAN™ Key features and Benefits

FOAMSCAN™ combines multiple foam generation modes and measuring tubes to cover the widest range of applications:

  • Gas sparging – foam is generated by injecting gas into the liquid through a porous glass filter at a controlled flow rate.

  • Mechanical stirring – foam is generated by agitating the liquid in a stirring chamber at a controlled speed.

  • External generation – foam produced by an external device can also be measured.

 

The FOAMSCAN™ software uses advanced image analysis and conductivity measurements to deliver accurate and reproducible results, characterizing both foaming properties and foam stability:​

  • Foaming properties: Foam Volume (mL), Liquid volume (mL), Gas volume (mL), Foam Wetness (%), Foam Capacity, Foam Expansion, Foam Density, Antifoam effectiveness (mL)

  • Foam stability : Foam Volume decay (mL), Drainage (% liquid fraction), Foam volume half-lifetime (sec), Liquid stability half-lifetime (sec), Foam stability index, Defoamer persistence (sec)

 

100% software controlled, measurement protocols are fully configurable: time, gas flow rate, and stirring speed can be pre-set for consistent testing.

In addition, automated cleaning can be scheduled after each measurement, saving valuable time and eliminating the need for manual cleaning.

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Applications​​

  • Foamability of daily products: body care, cosmetics, food, barista, beer, sodas...

  • Product Formulation: surfactants screening, quality improvement, reducing raw materials, product performance optimization

  • Foaming and Wetting properties for Cleaning and coating products

  • Expansion and foam insulation properties of Firefighting foams

  • Creating solid foam structure and for construction materials

  • Absorbing or applying pressures for natural resources extraction

  • Froth flotation as a method for separating solids

  • Foam-Assisted Chemical Flooding for Enhanced Oil Recovery

  • Foam-reducing agents and Anti-foams effectiveness

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