Aerosol Wind Tunnel Engineering and Research Laboratory

Welcome to AlburtyLab!

Located in Drexel, Missouri, just south of Kansas City, AlburtyLab serves the aerosol research, development, and instrumentation communities. Our associates and specialized facilities combine to help our customers develop and improve their products.

Full Service Testing Facility
Includes an Aerosol Wind Tunnel

Let us assist you in developing and improving your product. Our Aerosol Laboratory uses a combination of computer aided design, computational fluid dynamics, and laboratory hardware to assist our customers during the design, confirmation testing, product improvement, and validation stages of pre production. The laboratories include a fully instrumented reversible aerosol wind tunnel, aerosol chamber, wet chemistry, and microbiology facilities.

Custom Engineering

We custom-design and build Hyraprep hydrosol(TM) Concentrators (pat. pend.). A system can be custom-designed for fluid recycling and target particle enrichment for analysis. The modular design can be easily incorporated into an existing system or specifically built per application. Several Hydraprep systems have been built and tested using low cost off-the-shelf components.


We custom-design and build stainless steel aerosol systems including PITT-3 type dry powder aerosol generators.


Alburtylab engineers can build successful aerosol handling instrumentation in virtual space through computer modeling. We can help you save valuable time by anticipating and solving potential problems by modeling your aerosol systems before they are built. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software, a powerful addition to computer aided design (CAD), is used to predict the behavior of an aerosol sampler or flow system before building hardware. It can also be used to diagnose difficulties and optimize existing aerosol systems.


We are also a proud distributor for VNE Stainless, Inc. link Please contact us, if we can help design and build a system for you.

Active Research and Development

Aburtylab conducts ongoing research centered on aerosol concentration, particle sorting, and background suppression/detection contrast improvement.

The Alburtylab Hydraprep hydrosol Concentrator is being evaluated for inclusion in multiple US Government aerosol detection programs: Program managers from 5 different US Government aerosol detection programs are evaluating a proprietary particle concentration technology developed in collaboration with Page Applied Research, LLC, of Kansas City, Missouri. Through our Hyrdaprep hydrosol Concentrator Alburtylab has shown that particles suspended in a 10 mL liquid sample can be concentrated to over 5000% into as little as 20 µL of fluid within seconds.

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