Material manufacturing and design

Pilot Scale - Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), Build dimensions: 1000 x 1000 x 700 mm

Abrasion resistance

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

Analytical balance with accuracy up to 0.0001g with a maximum weight of 120 g. Model: MS104S

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.

Particle production through the transformation of a fluid/suspension material into dried particles

CL-5 pelletization equipment (10 kg/hr)

Rheological and extrusion properties

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

centrifugation

Nikon Ti Eclipse Confocal Microscope. Optical imaging technique

Cooling suspensions up to -11 oC

do basic voltage measurements

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

Viscoelastic characterization of polymers

thin film characterization

Creating different environment for biomass storage

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

Measures fiber length, width, curl, % numeric fines and kink in diluted pulp samples. Also provided fiber length distribution

Tension measurements

Cary eclipse (Agilent), equiped with thermostatted cuvette holder for thermal melts

GE (Cytiva) Akta Pure 25 M1

Freeze drying at below ‒50 °C at below 0.133 mBar

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

Automated freeze substitution machine for cryo-fixed/chemically-fixed samples

Automated simultaneous labelling of up to 24 grids, capable of using up to 24 different primary antibodies in one run

Cryo-fixation/immobilization of biological samples, 2100 bar of high pressure applied to the sample to suppress ice crystal formation and growth, capable of vitrification up to a thickness of 200 µm

Ultramicrotome: cryo-ultramicrotome

Particle size analyzer: Particle characterization from the nano- to the micrometer range

Dispersion characterization (size and stability)

Rheology (flow) measurements

Dispersion and powder sizing

grinding (ultra-fine particle production)

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

Particle Image Velocimetry. Flow visualization, laser-based imaging techniques.

Spinning disk confocal microscope: high-speed multi-color image acquisition with spinning disk, 6 laser lines and high-sensitivity EMCCD camera

Model: Orion Star A215

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

Model: RC-5 Sorvall F-16/250

Repulper, upto 5% consistency, 10L

Rheological properties, UV, Polarized microscopy

Rheological behavior analysis

Injection molding

Tumbler tester developed at BBRG for single pellets

Probe sonicator to create stable emsulsions, suspensions, etc

Pellet production line 200 kg/h

Laurel Technologies create uniform thin coatings

0.7 cu ft in size, operates at atmospheric pressure, or at a vacuum up to 30'' Hg. Temperature range of 35 - 220 °C Model: Cole-Parmer Stable Temp

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 analysis

Moisture and ash content measurement

Thermal stability analysis

Provides compressive strength for a variety of materials

1100°C Tube Furnaces, which benefits from design elements such as double-shell construction and variable density insulation to enhance performance.

Stability Analysis

low viscosity liquid treatment in a continues mode, surface treatment

extrusion 3D printer

Mixing and homogenization

UV-Vis analysis

Lab. Scale - upto 280°C

Detector for small angle xray diffraction (XRD)

Microwave Vacuum Drying system

Model: 945404 (Fisher Scientific)

Surface coating

Advanced visualization and imaging using x-ray. Diversity on sample testing (paper, foams, minerals, biological samples, etc).

Particle sizing and Zeta potential measurement (surface charge)