Facilities
The Department and University have a variety of state-of-the art analytical
instruments and laboratories available for instruction and research (see
table below). RET students have access to the following:
State-of-the-art Laboratories
Available for Use in Research
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Microscopy Laboratory
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Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive X-ray
and image analyzer (SEM / EDX)
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Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM)
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Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
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Interfacial Force Microscope (IFM, 5th one in world)
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Mechanical and Thermal Testing Laboratory
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MTS Mechanical Tester
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Setaram Microcalorimeter
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Cincinnati Micron Injection Molding Machine
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Haake High Shear Mixer/Extruder
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Process Design and System Analysis Computer Laboratory
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IBM RISC / 6000 Workstations
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AspenPlus Model Manager (steady state process simulator)
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AspenPlus Speedup (dynamic simulator)
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HYSYS Process (steady state and dynamic process simulator)
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Personal Computer Laboratory (Gateway 2000 Multimedia
Pentium computers)
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HSC software
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Process Control Laboratory
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Camile 3000 Controller and Data Acquisition System
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Analytical Laboratory
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FT-IR spectrometer with microscope
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FT-IR spectrometer with Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR)
system
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Raman spectrometer
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HP 6890 gas chromatograph
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GC-MS
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others (UV-Vis spectrometer,AA, ICP, Ion chromatograph,
contact angle goniometer)
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Reaction and Separation Engineering Laboratory
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Combustion synthesis reactor
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Centrifugal combustion synthesis reactor
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SHS reactor
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Gas-fired combustion furnace
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Supercritical extractor
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Supercritical equilibrium, and variable volume view cell
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Supercritical reactor
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