Characterization

Existing facilities for membrane characterization at the center include: capillary flow porometer, BET, thermogravimetric analyzer, differential scanning calorimeter, dynamic mechanical analysis, liquid entry pressure, contact angle goniometer, particle size analyzer, zeta potential analyzer, and FTIR.

In addition, our lab is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical chemistry tools, which include:

Instrument
Dual-channel Ion Chromatography
High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (AAS)
Agilent 1260 GPC Gel Permeation Chromatography System (GPC)  

The following equipment are available for lab-scale testing:

Instrument
Mini MD pilot
Mini RO pilot
Mini UF pilot

Measurement of ultrafiltration rate/ diffusion coefficient

Mini MF pilot
Crossflow filtration unit (NF/RO)
Forward osmosis filtration rig