The Chair of Brewing and Beverage Technology has extensive equipment in the field of process engineering and process technology as well as raw material and product analysis. Various analysis and measurement devices allow the mechanical, optical, chemical and microbiological characterization of samples. The equipment also includes an own research brewery. (Link)
Image Acquisition Systems
Lights and lighting:
- Flat square area LED lamp with white diffusion filter
- Bar LEDs with white diffusion filter
- Bar LEDs without diffuser
- Laboratory power supplies
- Ring LEDs
Digital cameras:
- iCube KS1500CU CMOS color camera with 6 fps and 5.0 MP
- Basler piA2400-17gm/gc CCD color camera with 17 fps and 5.0 MP
- Basler avA2300-30km/k CCD color camera with 30 fps and 5.0 MP
- Basler acA640-750uc CMOS color camera with 751 fps and 0.3 MP
- Basler acA1920-155uc CMOS color camera with 164 fps and 2.3 MP
- FLIR A655sc thermal camera with 45° optics, max. 50 Hz
- XENICS BOBCAT-320-20-100-GE (320x200 pixel, 14 bit, monochrome, spectral region: 900 – 1700 nm, max. fps 100, GigE vision)
Lasers:
- Newport R-30995, He-Ne laser, 632.8 nm, 17 mW, class 3B
- Thorlabs CPS635R, diode laser, 634.9 nm, 1.4 mW, class 3R
Calibration:
- Color calibration cards
- Photo standard
Measuring instruments:
- Light measurement (luxmeter)
- Photo box with adjustable lighting
- Spectral photo box (400 nm – 1500 nm)
- Laser optical measuring system
- Kern moisture analyzer type DBS 60-3
- Various optical filters (gray scale, color filters, band pass filters)
Improvements of the industrial image processing:
- Noise and spot removal with LBM
- Algorithm for surface roughness estimation
- Optimized edge detection algorithms
- Object detection and analysis algorithms
- Laser Speckle Imaging
Ultrasound-based sensor systems – Adapting ultrasonic devices for process monitoring in model and industrial scale
Individual Sensor Design:
- Sensor configuration
- Piezo ceramics (frequency, shape eg.)
- Backing, housing
- Electrical adaption
- Transducer mode (Pulse-echo, transmission SAW)
- Microcontroller for data handling, processing and excitation
- Electrical Workshop
Measuring Devices:
- Oscilloscope
- Operational amplifiers
- Pressure and temperature sensors
- Signal generator
- Spectrum analyser
Applied Methods:
- Spectrum analysis
- Plant automation
- Variant time series analysis
- Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Partial Least Square (PLS) calibration models
- Chemometric models
- Ultrasonic inline measurement
- Variant time series analysis