Fertilizer Testing Services to Improve Product Performance
Evaluating fertilizer performance after development requires more than just testing whether the correct balance of nutrients are present and available. The fertilizer must also avoid problems with storage, handling, and transport. These problems may occur as caking, segregation, dustiness, or absorption of moisture. To help ensure successful product development, a full range of testing is required. Applied Chemical Technology has years of experience in testing the physical properties as well as the controlled release characteristics of fertilizer in the laboratory, greenhouse, and field.
Fertilizer Physical Properties Testing
- Hardness Testing
- Abrasion Resistance
- Attrition
- Dust Testing
- Critical Relative Humidity
- Moisture Penetration
- Caking Test
- Particle Size Analysis
- Sphericity
- Density
- Angle of Repose
- Fluidization Velocity
- Flash Point
- Electrical Conductivity
- Viscosity
- Crystallography
- Microphotographs
Fertilizer Control Release Testing
- Accelerated Nutrient Release
- 7 Day Dissolution
- Ultrasonic Dissolution
- Method FM-701
- Soil Incubation
- Ammonia Volatilization
Fertilizer Agronomic Screening
- Greenhouse Studies
- Test Plot Trials