Research equipment
Laboratory for Synthesis
- MW oven ETHOS (Milestone)
- 100 ml and 1L reactors with regulator with stirring (Parr)
- 23 ml and 45 ml stainless steel Teflon lined autoclaves (without stirring) (Parr)
- Carousel 6 Plus Reaction Station (Radleys)
- High-speed Centrifuge Rotanta 460 R (Hettich)
- Ultrasonic Processor UP 200S (Hielscher)
- Furnaces with regulators
- Ovens (Binder)
- Schlenk line
- Mill MM 400 (Retsch)
- MultiLab granulator/extrudor (Caleva)
- Optical Microscope (Zeiss)
X-Ray Powder Diffraction:
- X-ray powder diffractometer Malvern Panalytical Empyrean III – XRD platform for experimental cells
- High-resolution X-ray powder diffractometer Malvern Panalytical Empyrean III
- High-resolution X-ray powder diffractometer PANalytical X'Pert PRO (HTK)
Adsorption
- Gravimetric gas vapor sorption vacuum analyzer DVS (Surface Measurements Systems)
- Dynamic sorption water vapour analyser IGAsorpX (Hiden Isochema)
- Volumetric gas adsorption analyser iQ3 (Quantachrome)
- Volumetric gas adsorption analyser iQ (Quantachrome)
- Gravimetric vapor sorption analyser IGA-100 (Hiden Isochema)
- Volumetric gas sorption analyzer HTP-IMI (Hiden Isochema)
- Volumetric gas adsorption analyser Tristar 3000 (Micromeritics)
- Volumetric vapor adsorption analyser Belsorb MAX X HT (Microtrac)
- Gravimetric sorption analyser DVS Carbon (Surface System Measurements)
Thermal analysis
- Q5000IR TG (TA Instruments) coupled with Mass Spectrometer ThermoStar GSD 320
- Q2000 MDSC (TA Instruments)
- Mettler Toledo system for thermal analysis - TGA 2
Laboratory-scale reactors
- multiphase catalytic reactor (PID Eng&Tech)
- high-temperature/high-pressure batch reactor (Parr)
- (photo)catalytic reactor (Harrick), connected to a mass spectrometer (Pfeiffer Vacuum)
Analytical equipment
- ion chromatograph (Dionex, Metrohm)
- gas chromatograph (Agilent)
- micro GC instrument (Agilent)
- GC-MS (Agilent)
- HPLC instrument (Shimadzu, Thermo Scientific)
- calorimeter (IKA)
- CHNS elemental analyzer (Perkin Elmer)
- TOC analyzer (Shimadzu)
- instrument for determination of Kjeldahl nitrogen (Büchi)
- AMPTS II system for determination of biogas potential (Bioprocess Control)
- UV/VIS spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)
- UV/VIS-DR spectrophotometer for in-situ characterization of solid materials (Perkin Elmer / Harrick)
- fluorescence/luminescence spectrometer (Perkin Elmer)
- potenciostat/galvanostat (Metrohm-Autolab)
- EPR/ESR spectrometer (Adani)
- freeze dryer (Christ)
- instrument for determining the textural properties of materials (Micromeritics)
- instrument for characterization of heterogeneous catalysts by temperature programmed techniques (Micromeritics), connected to a mass spectrometer (Pfeiffer Vacuum)
- He pycnometer (Micromeritics)
- zetasizer (Malvern Panalytical)
- thermogravimetric analyzer (Perkin Elmer)
- TGA/DTA/DSC analyzer (Perkin Elmer)
- FTIR spectrometer for in-situ characterization of solid materials (Perkin Elmer / Pike)
- digital system to carry out "Jar" tests (Witeg)
- automated titrator (Metrohm, Mettler Toledo)
- titrator for coulometric titrations (Metrohm)
- stereo magnifier (Wild) with Nikon digital camera
- fluorescence microscople equipped with a digital camera (Carl Zeiss)
Pilot laboratory
laboratory (50 m2) with the necessary infrastructure to carry out experiments to transfer laboratory achievements to industrial scale (production processes, support processes, cleaning of emissions in the liquid and gas phase, etc.)
Light source
- Supercontinuum white light fiber laser