Benchtop freeze dryer designed for lyophilizing light to moderate sample loads. Minimum temperature -150 °C. Model: FreeZone® 4.5L Benchtop Freeze Dryers, Labconco

Measuring moisture content of biomass

Suspending matter in air against gravity using acoustic radiation pressure from high intensity sound waves. Model: Tec5 100khz levitator with reflector and free jet nozzle

Liquid Chromatography (LC)

R&D Steam Retort

Asylum research JUPITER XR AFM. Compatible with liquid imaging and nanomechanical testing.

Two independently controlled precision syringe pump channels with programmable step-rate functionality, flow rates from .0001 µL/min to 170.5 mL/min and holds syringes between 0.5mL to 100mL. Model: Chemyx Fusion 4000

Pulp testing, determination fibre size distributions in 5 bins

Double beam UV-Vis  spectrophotometer for liquids and solids.

Encapsulation of additives, flavors, vitamins, proteins, probiotic bacteria, controlled release

CL-5 pelletization equipment (10 kg/hr)

Rheological and extrusion properties

Confocal/optical microscopy image processing and analysis, deconvolution of fluorescent images

Contact angle measurements (optical)

Sputter coating with a wide choice of coating target materials for SEM

Dionex dual pump High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography system with Pulsed Ampiometric Detection for carbohydrates

conduct proximate analysis and measuring volatile content of material / thermal characterization of biomass

Mechanical properties

Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measures the heat flow into or from a sample as it is heated, cooled or held under isothermal conditions.

Viscosity measurement

Thermomechanical analysis

Tearing strength testing for plastic films, paper, other thin materials

Transmission electron microscope: conventional TEM imaging, cryo-TEM, 3D electron tomography, correlative light and electron microscopy

Plunge-freezing of aqueous (colloidal) suspensions for cryo-TEM imaging

Open source scientific image processing/analysis

Molecular devices Spectramax Gemini EM (bottom & top reading)

Foam characterization

Labcono capacity is 6 L

Solvent/water removal

6 Lit Freez Dryer

Composition of sampled gases

small molecule analysis

Gel permeation and size exclusion chromatography

Paper testing, porosity

Papermaking, gravity draingage, 16cm diamter circular sheets, manual operation

Wine free and total sulfur dioxide titrator

heating and drying oven

Transmission electron microscope: conventional TEM imaging, negative staining electron microscopy

Homogenizing, mixing

Apply high pressure to samples at high temperature

Barrier properties

multimode plate reader

Fourier-transform infrared for compounds analysis

Liquid sample test to measure water concentration

Nano Scale - Evaluate tensile properties, load cell 0.5-5 kg

Bench-top spectrophotometer to measure the colour of solid, pasty granular

Paper surface testing, exact thickness measurements

Available to keep cells and tissue cultures for live-cell imaging

Targeted and untargeted metabolite profiling

Fully automated, capable of producing a homogenous metal or carbon coat for both TEM and SEM imaging, glow discharge for rendering TEM grids hydrophilic

Produces 45° glass knives from 6.4, 8 and 10 mm thick glass utilizing the balanced-break method

Ultramicrotome: cryo-ultramicrotome for cutting frozen samples for the Tokuyasu technique for immunolabelling, and for high-pressure frozen samples for cryo-electron microscopy for vitreous sections. FC7 cryo-chamber maintains the temperatures as low as -160C

Vibrating blade microtome, produces thick sections (> 5 um) of fixed or fresh tissue without freezing or embedding in resin for light microscopy

Mechanical refining at LC. Refiner includes several plate patterns. Refining loop includes a 260 L repulper and 4000 L tanks.

Offers particle size, particle charge (zeta potential) and molecular weight analysis. Model: ZEN36000 ZS

Dispersion and powder sizing

Modular Compact Rheometer: to measure the rheological properties of materials

Lab. Scale - Melt Extrusion/Blown Machine -  up to 6 kg/hour

Paper surface testing, smoothness/roughness measure

 Material manufacturing and particle generation

Device used to physically interact with a sample under a microscope when high precision movement is required. Model: Eppendorf Micromanipulator 5171

optical analysis

Fibre fractionation. Several screen baskets included.

Bursting strength. Multi-directional tensile test to identify failure.

 Lab scale, high pressure microfluidizer for particle reduction applications

High Speed (3000rpm) electrospinning device 

Pilot scale (160 needle) electrospinning device 

Light/fluorescence microscope: upright configuration wide field microscope, brightfield imaging with darkfield option, phase contrast/DIC imaging, widefield fluorescence microscopy, fully motorized stage ideal for image stitching and tiling, both color & high sensitivity black and white CCD cameras

Stereomicroscope: dissections and viewing objects at low magnifications, brightfield/darkfield transmitted LED light, reflected light (objective-mounted fiber optic light source), high resolution color

LUMICKS C-Trap G2; dual-trap optical tweezers for force spectroscopy at single-molecule resolution

Measuring heating value of the sample as part of chemical characterization of biomass

Microwave technology facilitates the rapid sample processing from fixation to resin infiltration

Beating of chemical/mechanical pulps for defibrillation. Small quantities ~ 25 grams

Open air cold plasma treatment system

Probe homogenizer equipped with probe for larger sample volumes (up to 1000 mL), and microtip for small samples. Model: Branson Sonifier SFX550

Pulp testing, measurement of shives content

monitor small mass changes on the surface of a coated quartz crystal.

Reactor with in-situ FTIR

Ultramicrotome: standard ultramicrotome

Rheological properties, high pressure cell

Rheological properties

Solvent recovery

Injection molding

Tumbler tester developed at BBRG for single pellets

UV-Vis and fluorescence measurements (microtiter plate)

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

Micro/nanoparticle generation

Real-time label-free surface sensitive technique that measures molecular interactions as well as structural changes and layer properties. Model: SPR Navi 200

Evaluate tensile properties, Load Resolution 50nN (5.1μgm), Maximum Load 500mN (50.8gm)

Reactivity of biomass under different temperature and humidity conditions.

High temperature tar removal unit

Paper surface testing, optical properties of Brightness, Opacity, Whitness etc.

Thermogravimetric Analyzer (Monitor the mass of a substance as temperature changes)

Store biomass in higher than ambient temperatures and analyze their gas emission.

Surface/interface tension and contact angle measurements

Fully automated, capable of processing small and large samples (up to 11.5 cm diameter)

Catalyst synthesis; Sample preparation

low viscosity liquid treatment in a continues mode, surface treatment

extrusion 3D printer

Use to clean sample surface before using QCM-d.

Beating of chemical/mechanical pulps for defibrillation, under repair

Paper testing, vertical tensile measurement

Confocal/optical microscopy image processing and analysis

Micro-CT (3D imaging)

Paper testing, zero span tensile tester