Facilities
Particle Characterization
- Disc centrifuge
- Photoluminescence
- Sieve analysis
- Sample splitter
- X-ray diffractometer (XRD)
- Laser light scattering: 0,1 – 1750 μm
- Photon correlation spectroscopy (PCS, QELS): 3 nm – 1 mm
- Electro-acoustic spectroscopy (Zeta-potential and particle size)
- Sedimentation analysis (Sedigraph): > 0,5 μm
- Coulter Multisizer II: > 0,5 μm
- Scanning Mobility Particle Sizing (SMPS): 10 nm – 1 μm
- Goniometer system for static and dynamic light scattering
- Microscope with image analysis system
Characterization and modification of surfaces
- Ellipsometry
- Optical Tweezer
- Langmuirbalance
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- BET analysis (surface, pore sizes > 2 nm)
- Hg-porosimetry (pore sizes > 2 nm)
- FT-IR spectroscopy
- Second Harmonic Generation spectroscopy
- Sum Frequency Generation spectroscopy
- Thermogravimetry
- Contact angle measurement
- Zetasizer Nano (Zeta potential, DLS, measurement of molecular weight and virial coefficients)
- Analysis of surface charge and streaming potential
- Dip-coating apparatus incl. ultraprecision scale
- Spin coater
Chemical analysis
- Gas chromatography (GC) with FID, TCD, SPME
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with UV-VIS detector
- UV/VIS spectroscopy
Material properties
- Density oscillator
- Pycnometer
- Rotational viscosimeter
- Micro hardness tester
- Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)
- Dynamic-mechanical analyser (DMA)
Adsorption
- Tensiometry
- Quartz crystal micro scale
- Inverse High Performance Liquid Chromatography (i-HPLC)
- Inverse Gas Chromatography (i-GC)
Characterization of multi-phase flows
- Rheometry
- X-ray tomography (60-160kV)
- Phase-Doppler-Anemometer
- Laser-Doppler-Anemometer
- Particle Image Velocimetry
- Flow visualisation by laser light sheet
- Pressure meters, flow meters
- LIF-apparatus (laser induced fluorescence for detection of varying concentrations)
- Capacitive probes for concentration measurements
Comminution/Classifying/Separation
- Single particle impact mill
- Single particle roll mill
- Single particle grinding apparatus
- Multi process mill (AFG 100, ZPS 50, ATP 50)
- Stirred ball mill with online measurement equipment
- Explosion proof stirred ball mill
- Electrofilters, baghouse filters
Particle synthesis/Crystallization
- Cristallizers: MSMPR, Batch, Fluid bed, Y-Mixer
- Ultrasonic density measurement
- Supersaturation sensors
- Reactors for gas phase synthesis
- Plasma reactor
- High temperature – short time – sintering plant with hot wall reactor
Pilot plant scale devices
- Hydraulic conveying
- Pressurized fluidized beds for static pressures up to 64 bar
- Stirred suspension tank in half-technical scale
Software
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFX)
- COSMO-RS (statistical thermodynamics)
- Labview based solver for population balances (in cooperation with BASF)
- PARSIVAL (Population balances)
Miscellaneous
- Glove box
- High voltage aggregates
- Impedance spectrometer
- Ring shear tester, Jenike shear tester
- Lab scale and pilot plant scale devices for
- Classifying
- Sieving
- Agglomeration (fluidized bed)
- Mixing of solids