MTS provides customers with a wide range of analytical testing, product support, and application development services.

The MTS laboratory can provide customers with contaminant analysis, filter performance studies, and can assist with process and filtration optimization. MTS performs filterability testing, extractables testing, and particulate effluent testing for Meissner-supplied products.  Additional instrumental analysis performed by our MTS laboratories includes:  atomic adsorption, GCMS, UV spectrophotometry, laser particle counting, IR spectroscopy, FTIR transform, scanning electron microscopy, and light microscopy.

• Compatibility Screening
  MTS performs a critical analysis of potential interactions between filters and liquids under specified conditions to ensure integrity of the filter, as well as integrity of the final product.  Filters are used to assess the compatibility of a filter with a particular liquid.

• Extractables Testing and Analysis
  Testing extractables allows MTS to analyze filter performance with a particular product under worst-case conditions. To test extractables, MTS exposes a filter to a customer’s product or a model solvent per test parameters. Any resulting extractables are analyzed to determine the quantitative and qualitative nature of the compounds.

• Filterability
  MTS commonly runs scale-up tests to determine what type of filtration system will work best for our customer’s process.  Our scientists conduct tests with the customer’s product using disc filters and then extrapolate the data to determine the size, type, and number of filters necessary for a particular job.  Filterability tests also allow the MTS staff to compare membranes side-by-side, allowing us to recommend the most optimal filter available.

• Laser Particle Counting (Particle Retention Efficiency):
  During a laser particle counting test, Meissner’s MTS staff challenges a filter with latex spheres to examine the filter’s particle removal efficiency.  Upstream and downstream particle counts are recorded to determine the efficiency of the filter pass.  MTS can use this information to characterize particle distributions, determine filter efficiency, and select filters for direct replacement or conversion of an existing filtration process.