Equipment of the group Technical Chemistry

Laboratory reactors

• Alumina and stainless steel tubular reactors
• Gradientless recycling reactor (Berty type, low-pressure design) up to 650°C
• Alumina and stainless steel labor autoclave
  
• Permeation test rig for planar and tubular membranes (up to 600°C)
• Membrane reactors (alumina, sinter metals)
• Electrochemical cell reactor for high temperature solid state ion conductors (up to 1100°C)
• Planar SOFC test rig for 9 cm ² single cell
• DMFC and PEMFC test bench for 5 & 25 cm² single cell

Other apparatus

• Screen printing machine  EKRA E1
• Heating laboratory press (Vogt GmbH) with 400 cm² working surface and up to 200 N/cm² specific pressure

Analysis techniques

• XRD (Siemens D 500)
• Volumetric adsorption instrument (Porotec Sorptomatic 1990)
• TPR/TPD/TPO and pulse chemisorption
• DTA/DSC (DuPont 1600 DTA, 910 DSC)
• Gas Chromatography (GC, Micro-GC, GC-MS)
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC)
• Ion Chromatography (IC)
• High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
• Capillary flow porometry (PMI CFP-1500AEXI)
• laser-Doppler anemometer (LDA)
  

Software

• Aspen Plus (steady state process simulation)
• Aspen Custom Modeler
• COMSOL
• MATLAB and Simulink 
• Packed bed and membrane reactor simulation codes