MATERIALS LABORATORY

  • Taber Abrasometer
  • Shakers:
    • Dispermat
    • Mechanical-vertical
  • Analyser:
    • C+S Leco
    • Sulphur in organic liquid samples
    • Image
    • N+O
    • Thermogravimetric (TGA)
  • Mutiaxial test bed (2 + 5 Ton)
  • Melting point heating bench
  • Semi-continuous (co) digestion bench with operating controls
  • Gas sampling pump
  • Calorimeter
  • Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
    • Chambers: Climate
    • Photodegradation in light of Xenon (Xenotest)
    • Ultraviolet photodegradation
    • Salt spray, wet static and SO2
  • Chromatographs:
    • Gas Chromatograph (GC) with headspace
    • High-performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC)
  • Automatic hydrometer
  • UV lamp cleaning
  • Kjeldahl Nitrogen Distiller
  • COD determination
  • Determination:
    • MFI
    • HDT and VICAT Temperature
  • Digital shore test
  • Additive dispenser
  • Durometer:
    • Brinell
    • Portable for field hardness analysis
    • HRC
    • Vickers
    • Shore, IRHD, Barcol
  • Material combustibility equipment
  • Corrosion analysis equipment by voltammetry and impedance
  • Oxidation stability equipment (Ramcimat)
  • Oil extraction equipment
  • Vacuum distillation equipment
  • Macrographic team
  • Equipment to determine copper corrosion
  • Equipment to determine Flash Point
  • Equipment to determine Cold Filter Clogging Point (CFPP)
  • Zeta-Sizer nanoparticle size and stability measurement equipment
  • Carbonaceous residue equipment
  • Metallographic analysis equipment in the field
  • Metallographic preparation equipment
  • Colour spectrophotometer
  • Infrared spectrophotometer
    • (FTIR) with coupled and conventional microscopy
    • Ultraviolete-visible (UV-VIS)
    • Plasma emission (ICP)

  • Extensometer:
    • Laser
    • Mechanic
  • Ferritometer
  • Ovens:
    • For tensile tests
    • FSP Reactor
    • Muffle with inert N2 atmosphere
    • Heat treatment
  • Cooler incubator for BOD5
  • Stereoscopic loupes
  • Testing machines:
    • Fatigue (Rotary flexion)
    • Creep
    • Embedding
    • Dynamic tests
    • Universal testing
    • Universal tests (10 KN and 100 KN). Coupled chamber for tests from -70ºC to 300ºC.
    • Universal tests (Tensile/Compression)
  • Crack measurement
  • Moisture meter by Karl Fisher
  • Dynamic surface tension meter
  • Flow rate meter
  • Thickness gauges
  • Microdurometer
  • Microscopes:
    • Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)
    • Countertop scanning electron microscope (SEM)
    • Optical Microscope
    • Portable Microscope
    • Metallographic Microscopes
  • X-Ray Microprobe (EDS)
  • Microviscometer
  • Ball mill
  • Blade grinding mill (pilot scale)
  • Charpy pendulum
  • Impact pendulum
  • Compression moulding press
  • Profiles projector
  • Continuous reactor for heterogeneous transesterification
  • Reactor for homogeneous transesterifications
  • Rotational rheometer
  • Discontinuous (co) digestion system with gas generation control
  • Ultrasonic probe
  • Tribometer
  • Ultra-microdurometer
  • High frequency ultrasound
  • Laboratory processing unit with internal mixer, single screw extruder and film collection tower