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Laboratory Preparation Equipment
Solid Materials and Liquid Fuel Testing Equipment
Aqueous/Environmental Analyzers
Spectroscopy
Thermal Analyzers

Laboratory Preparation Equipment

• Size Reduction Equipment (ball, pebble, rod, sledge, and hammer mills; attritor; jaw crusher; Chipmunk; Retch; Shatter Box; and Shredding mill)
• Pulverizers (Grinder, and disk)
• Sieves (Gilson wet, (2) mechanical (Ro-tap) dry and Sweco wet/dry screen)
• Splitters (Riffles Various sizes, Sample mixing wheel, and Rotary splitter)
• V-Blender (55 gal)
• Various Drying Ovens (Air Dry Ovens (2), and temperature control units)
• ASTM Moisture Oven
• ASTM Ashing Furnaces
• High Temperature Furnace
• Microwave Drying Oven
• Microwave Ashing Oven
• Low-Temperature Oxygen-Plasma Asher
• Microwave Digestion Ovens (high pressure closed and open vessel)
• Ash Fluxer
• Mixer/Mill
• Automated X-Press (2)
• Floor Centrifuge

Solid Materials and Liquid Fuel Testing Equipment

• Proximate Anayzer (2)
• Karl Fischer Moisture Analyzer
• Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen Analyzer
• Sulfur Analyzer
• Chemiluminescence's Nitrogen Analyzer
• Trace Level Coulometric Sulfur Analyzer
• Isothermal-Jacket Bomb Calorimeter
• Free-Swelling Index Furnace
• Automatic Ash-Fusion Analyzer
• Helium Pycnometer (density)
• Mineral Carbon/Oxygen Analyzer
• Mercury (solid/liquid) Analyzers (2)
• Laser Diffraction Particle-Size Analyzer (Coulter)
• Laser Diffraction Particle-Size Analyzer (Hewlett Packard)
• Automated Surface-Area/Pore Size Analysis Systems (Tristar)
• Automated Surface-Area/Pore Size Analysis Systems (ASAP)
• Catalyst Characterization Unit
• Surface Potentiometer
• Compressive Strength
• Tensile Strength
• Tensile Tester
• Frequency Response Analyzer
• Zeta Potentiometer
• ASTM Petroleum-Test Equipment (flask and pour points, and viscosity)
• Hardgrove Grindability apparatus
• Automated surface area/pore size analyzer (2-tristar and ASAP units)
• Laser Diffraction Particle-size analyzer (3)
• Automated compressive meter and test stand

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Aqueous/Environmental Analyzers

• Ion Chromatograph
• Mercury (gas/liquid) Analyzer
• PH meters (5)
• Conductivity Meter
• Oxygen and Specific Conductance Meter
• Turbidimeter
• Hand-Held Densitometers (2)
• Neutron Probe
• Photometer
• Nitrogen Analyzer
• Field Water Testing Kits
• Field and Laboratory Lysimeters
• Controlled Temperature/humidity chamber

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Spectroscopy

• Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS)
• ICP-AES with Cetac U-5000 Ultrasonic Nebulizer
• Direct-Current Atomic Emission Spectrometer
• Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
• FIAS-Atomic Absorption
• Mercury (gas) Analyzer
• Ultraviolet-Visible
• Fourier-Transform Infra-Red (FT-i.r.) (2) with ATR, diffuse reflectance, PAS and in-situ reaction chamber
• X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD) with High Temperature In-Situ Cell
• X-ray Fluorescence
• Raman Spectrometer
• Scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive Detector (SEM-EDX)
• Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM-central campus)
• Field Ionization Mass Spectrometer Residual Gas Analyzer
• Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer (2)

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Thermal Analyzers

• Thermogravimetric Absorption Analyzer (Hiden IGA)
• TG/DTA-MS (Seiko)
• High temperature, high capacity TG/DSC/MS (Netzsch)
• Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
• High Pressure TGA
• Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• Differential Thermal Analyzer

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