Equipment

In cooperations, we offer services for partners utilizing our experimental facilities. We have a wide variety of analytical and preparative tools available (from the nanometre to a few decimetres) typically found in chemical engineering institutions.

Some exceptional pieces of equipment are:

• Dedicated single-drop measuring cells as basis for extraction-column design to characterize sedimentation, mass transfer, and coalescence
• Standardized settling cells to characterize drop size and coalescence behavior of liquid-liquid dispersions in lab-scale experiments with original material systems, which is information required for quantitative design of gravity settlers
• An array of equipment for the characterization of porous materials (nitrogen adsorption, mercury porosimetry, x-ray tomography) covering the complete range of scales from the nanometer to the millimeter.
• Thermal treatment analysis: TG-DSC, TPD/R/O
• Total organic carbon analyser
• Cone-plate viscometer
• High T kilns (® 1800°C)
• Coaters for thin films: dip, spin, spray, bar
• Profilometer: thickness and rugosity of thin films
• Reactors for photocatalysis
• Helium and mercury pycnometers
• Ar-filled glovebox with 4 working stations
• Potentiostats and battery cyclers with climatic chambers
• Equipment for the preparation of coin cells
• Fuel-cell test benches
• Hydraulic presses (1 and 7 tons)
• HPLC
• Climatic chamber
• Convective dryers for drying materials ranging from a few grams to 1 kg
• Contact dryer for drying powders
• Superheated steam dryer
• Belt filter
• Filter press
• Continuous centrifuge
• Pouch-cells saddle
• Various optical flow visualization benches (PIV, PLIF,...) within a reactor