Equipment
FACILITIES:
Facilities include four laboratories:Chemical Analysis, Environmental Research I, Enviromental Research II,and Industrial Processes Intensification.
Facilities for studying homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions in a wide range of pressure and temperature, in continuous, discontinuous and / or semi continuous operation.
Laboratory for treating wastewater containing organic pollutants by advanced oxidation technologies.
Facilities for the study of soil remediation, in batch and column.
Software, commercial and developed by the group INPROQUIMA, for modeling and optimization of chemical and environmental processes.
ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT:
- 1 Force Tensiometer (semi-automatic).
- 1 Force Tensiometer (manual).
- 2 High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (HPLC) with UV-Vis diode-array detector (DAD).
- 2 Ionic Chromatography modules (anions and cations).
- 1 Gas Chromatograph coupled with mass detector (GC-MS) and HS-SPME.
- 1 Gas Chromatograph coupled with MS/FID, and HS-SPME.
- 1 Gas Chromatograph equipped with FID/ECD detector and HS-SPME.
- 1 Gas Chromatograph equipped with FID/ECD detector.
- 1 Gas Chromatograph equipped with FID detector.
- 1 Micro GC with TCD detector.
- 1 Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MP-AES) for metals measurement.
- 2 Potentiometric Titrators.
- 1 Total Organic Carbon (TOC) analyzer for liquid samples.
- 1 TOC analyzer for liquid and solid samples and Total Nitrogen (TN) analyzer in liquid samples.
- 1 Tube furnace for TPD tests.
- 1 Unit for COD measurements.
- 1 Unit for BOD5 measurements.
- 1 Unit for ecotoxicity measurement (Microtox® - Biolight Toxy).
- 3 UV-Vis spectrophotometers.
- 1 Zetasizer Advance for determination of particle size/charge.
OTHER:
- Automatized measurement system for conductivity, pH, and selective ions for the analysis of soil effluent of soil columns in continuous full length studies.
- 1 Autosampler Workbench for automated sample preparation.
- 1 Branson Digital Sonifier SFX 550 20kHz
- 1 Electromagnetic Sieve Saker (BA-200-N)
- 1 ETHOS One microwave digestion system.
- 2 Orbital refrigerated shakers for soil remediation studies carried out in discontinuous.
- 4 Soxhlets.
- 2 Ultapure water systems.
- Software gPROMS.
- Supporting research services of UCM: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), elemental analysis, HPLC-MS and ICP-Plasma.