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PIG Facilities

 

 

 
Labs

(Pictured: Main PI Lab)
 

 

  • C12 - Plasma Lab
  • C18 - Gasification and Pyrolysis Lab
  • C113 - Main PI Lab (inc. Powder Analysis, GC, and Reactor Development)
  • C123 - 3D Printing Lab and BioSPRINT Project
  • C125 - Foam Column and Reactor Development Projects
  • Pilot Plant - Rotating Packed Bed and CO2 Absorbent Screening

 

 
     
  Intensified Reactors/Separators

(Pictured: Mini-TORBED component being cured after 3D printing)
 
 

 

  • CoFlore Agitated Cell Reactor (New)
  • Multicell 8 High-Pressure Reactors (New)
  • Spinning Disc Reactors
  • Oscillatory Baffled Reactors (5-100 mm diameter)
  • Pilot-Scale Rotating Packed Beds for CO2 Capture
  • Plasma Reactor
  • Heat Pipe-Extruder
  • Taylor-Couette Reactor
  • Micro Fluidized Beds/Micro-TORBED for CO2 adsorbent screening
  • Foam Flotation Columns
  • Batch Photoreactor (125 W Medium Pressure Mercury Lamp)
  • Gas Bubbling Column Photoreactor (125 W Medium Pressure Mercury Lamp)

 

 
     
  Analytical Equipment

(Pictured: GC space in the main PI lab)
 
 

 

  • UV-Vis Diffusive Reflectance Spectroscopy
  • UV/Vis Spectrophotometers (sample analysis and in-situ monitoring)
  • FTIR Spectrometers (sample analysis or in-situ monitoring)
  • HPLC
  • GC & GCMS
  • Calorimeter
  • Coulometric Titration
  • Gel Permeation Chromatography
  • DO Probes
  • Conductivity Probes
  • Viscosity Measurement
  • Turbidity Cell

 

 
     
  General Equipment

(Pictured: Vacuum oven)
 
 

 

  • Syringe Pumps
  • Potentiostats
  • Heating/Stirring Plates
  • Rotary Evaporators
  • Vacuum Oven
  • Glassware Oven
  • Furnaces
  • Vibrating Sieve
  • Heated/Cooled Recirculating Baths
  • Extraction Column
  • Glassware (condensers, flasks, etc.)

 

 
     
  Specialist Resources

(Pictured: 3D Printing Lab)
 
 

 

  • Digital Microscope
  • Water/Wastewater Characterization
  • PIV
  • High Speed Camera
  • 3D Printing Lab (including dedicated PC for CAD)
  • Custom server for CFD analysis
 
 
     
  Other Accessible Resources
MASTHEAD_XRD_Edited
(Pictured: XRD facility at Newcastle University)
 
 

 

  • Ball Mill
  • BET (Nitrogen and CO2)
  • DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry)
  • ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma Emission Spectroscopy)
  • NMR
  • Malvern Zetasizer (Particle size, zeta potential and polymer molecular weight)
  • Raman Microscopy
  • SEM/ESEM-EDX
  • XRD
 

 

 

 

 Last modified: 11-Jul-2022