The FRANKA pilot plant

FRANKA-0
Pilot plant operating in batch mode

The Karlsruhe Research Centre (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, FZK) is one of Europe's largest centers for research into natural and applied science. Its research and development programme comprises five research areas: Material Structure, Earth and Environment, Health, Energy and Key Technologies.

Karlsruhe University (TH) and the FZK have established the  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to pool the strengths of the two partners.

1995 saw the FZK launch a far reaching R&D programme to explore possible industrial applications of selective fragmentation using high voltage pulsed power technology. Since then, FZK has built several specially designed pilot plants (FRANKA) and has investigated the fragmentation of many different materials in the fields of
mineralogy, raw materials and composites. FZK has demonstrated the advantages of this method as compared to mechanical fragmentation, and the great potential that exists for the commercialisation of this technology.

selFrag is now making this patented technology commercially available under a worldwide licence from FZK.