Laboratory Infrastructure

Catalyst Synthesis

• Calcination Setups
• Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) Unit
• High temperature furnaces
• Rotary Evaporator
• Planetary Mill
• Wet lab

Catalyst Characterization

• TPR, TPX, TPO (BELCAT II)
• Surface Area and Porosity Analyzer by N2 adsorption (BET and BJH)
• Wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence
• Chemisorption
• Thermogravimetric Analysis
• Confocal Micro-Raman Spectroscopy

Catalyst Testing

• Rigs with packed-bed reactors for testing catalysts for thermochemical conversion of reactants with on-line GC anaylysis (also at elevated pressures)
• High pressure batch reactors
• Photocatalysis test reactor with solar simulator
• Small pilot plants for:
• attrition testing
• biomass and plastic waste conversion
• catalytic reforming/isomerization and hydrotreating/hydrocracking

Product Characterisation

• Mass Spectrometers
• Gas Chromtographs with FID, MS and/or TCD

Advanced characterisation techniques

• Steady-State Isotopic Transient Kinetic Analysis (SSITKA)
• In situ mass analyzer: ISMA
• Diffuse reflectance fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (DRIFTS): FTIR Nicolet iS50
• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy/X-ray Emission Spectroscopy: easyXAFS xes150
• X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscop: Kratos Ultra DLD
• Combined Auger Electron Spectroscopy/Scanning Electron Microscope: JEOL JAMP-9500F