Welcome to MercuryLab

The handling of particles, powders, grains and other bulk solids is crucial to a majority of modern industries. However, the design and maintenance of bulk-handling systems is a complex task subject to many – often unforeseeable – pitfalls.

MercuryLab offers state-of-the-art virtual prototyping software for the design and optimisation of bulk-handling machinery, specialising in industrial mixing processes, helping you get a top-quality product to market in the shortest timeframe possible.

Our aim is to offer a faster, cheaper alternative to conventional prototyping, helping you to design, improve and optimise particle-handling systems and processes effectively and efficiently. In particular, we can help you:

- Identify and solve mixing or flow problems

- Rapidly optimise system design

- Visualise your processes in full 3D

- Improve efficiency

- Reduce running costs


We offer a range of services, including:

If you have a specific mixing or flow problem that needs fixing, or a system that needs designing or optimising in a short timescale, our specialist consultants have the expertise and cutting-edge tools needed to get the job done rapidly and effectively.


The unpredictable behaviours of dynamic particulate systems make the design of new industrial equipment intended to handle powders and grains an extremely complex and risky task.

Although many attempt to resolve the above issues by constructing scaled-down model systems, this somewhat archaic approach is not only a slow but expensive process.

The future of industrial system design – run computer simulations to optimise your machinery and processes anytime, anywhere, with unlimited computational power.

Knowledge is power, and the key to staying ahead of your competitors is ensuring that you and your staff have the most cutting-edge skills and knowledge.

We offer a range of courses covering all aspects of particle handling technology, ranging from on-site training in the usage of particle handling equipment to intensive courses through which you can learn to apply the state-of-the-art particle simulation software MercuryDPM to the design and optimisation of your equipment.


What our clients say about us

“MercuryLab offered us a wide range of services related to the characterization, calibration and simulation of powder processes and DEM models. Finding a unique set of material parameters to accurately model powder rheology under different circumstances is challenging. We appreciate MercuryLab’s state-of-the-art academic expertise in this field and look forward towards adopting more of it in industrial applications.”

Dr. Rakulan Sivanesapillai

Expert Modeling Formulation Processes

Bayer AG

Engineering & Technology

Formulation & Processing Technologies

Granular and particulate materials are ubiquitous in both industry and our everyday lives; in fact it is likely that you have already encountered at least one granular material today, whether by walking along a gravel path, eating a bowl of cereal or brushing dust from a surface. Indeed, granular media are the second most manipulated substances on the planet after water.Yet despite this fact, our understanding of granular materials and their dynamical behaviours is shockingly incomplete compared to our knowledge of the flow behaviours of classical molecular fluids.