New Portable Flash Point Tester Launched

Grabner Instruments (Austria) launches Miniflash Touch, its new analyser for easy and safe flash point testing of petroleum products and solvents. Miniflash Touch is the latest addition to the Grabner Instruments line of portable flashpoint testers that combine all of the field-proven advantages of the Miniflash tester line with a new convenient touch-screen design. The touch-screen runs on a Microsoft® Windows® platform, the analyser offers full compatibility with network, PC and LIMS, user access control, new flashpoint methods and unique features for standard and advanced users.

Miniflash flash point testers work according to ASTM D6450 and D7094, which give results equivalent to the Pensky Martens ASTM D93*) / EN ISO 2719 and Abel and Tag closed cup methods. The new Miniflash Touch analyser features new methods for simulation of EN ISO 3679 and EN ISO 3680 for testing hazardous goods according to transport regulations. Miniflash Touch facilitates controlling of the parameters heat rate, ignition energy and amount of atmospheric oxygen present in the combustion chamber, through which users can simulate almost any flashpoint method within varying environmental conditions. The new model allows testing at an extended temperature range from 0-400°C and facilitates cleaning by introducing a new automatic ignition cleaning method.

Miniflash Touch’s large colour touch-screen runs in a Microsoft® Windows® environment. This enables easy networking and data transfer, allows seamless LIMS integration via LAN and full remote operation of the analyser. Further highlights of the flash point tester are USB data transfer and printer support, intuitive menu navigation and a vast method and data storage. The unique flash point combustion graphics give users the opportunity to follow every millisecond of the flash combustion in unprecedented detail.

Grabner Instruments portable Miniflash testers are known for maximum safety, accuracy, speed and ease of use in testing flashpoints of liquids and solids. The extremely versatile analysers are worldwide standard testers for the petrochemical and flavors and fragrances industry, are widely used for testing compliance with transport regulations and are approved testers for NATO and NAVY for military use.