Equipment

The employees of the laboratory are always keeping a watch on the tendencies of new testing methods working out and develop equipment park according to those.

Extract of the most important equipment in the laboratory:

•     Pyrolysis Reactor
•     Total sulfur analyzer UV (up to 500 ppm Mitsubishi TS-100)
•     Cutting Mill SM 300 RETSCH
•     Jaw Crusher BB 300 – RETSCH
•     Planetary Ball Mill PM 100 CM – RETSCH
•     Mastersizer 3000 laser particle size analyzer up to 1500 µm
•     Nikon SMZ25 Motorised Stereo Microscope, zoom up to 315x
•     Thermogravimetric Analyzer (Mettler-Toledo  TGA 1)
•     Agilent 4100 Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer
•     Elemental Analyzer vario MACRO cube (for C, H, N, C, Cl, TIC determination)
•     Elemental Analyzer ECS4010 for Oxygen determination
•     Total organic carbon (TOC and DOC) Analyzer
•     ETHOS 1 - Advanced Microwave Digestion Labstation
•     Mettler Toledo C 30, Compact Karl Fischer Titrators
•     T50 Automatic Titrator from Mettler-Toledo
•     Automatic Calorimeter ((PARR 6300, IKA C 6000)
•     Refrigeration bath circulator (Huber CC-508)
•     Micro Carbon Conradson Residue Analyzer Normalab NMC 210
•     Apparatus for Copper Strip Corrosion determination by Petroleum Products
•     Apparatus for Vapor Pressure Determination
•     DM45 LiquiPhysics Excellence Density Meter from Mettler-Toledo
•     Lubricity Testing of Diesel Fuels
•     Refrigeration bath circulator (Huber CC-508)
•     UDK 159 Automatic Kjeldahl Analyzer (Velp Scientifica UDK159 + DKL8)
•     Continuous Flow Tubular Reactors System. Up to 600 оС and 200 bar working pressure
•     High pressure reactor with stirrer
•     Equipment for Distillation of Crude Oil and Petroleum at atmospheric pressure or vacuum
•     Determination of distillation characteristics at atmospheric pressure according to ISO 3405
•     Rotation vacuum evaporator IKA RV 8
•     Rotanta 460 Lab Benchtop Refrigerated Centrifuge
•     Centrifuge for fuels and oils (Eppendorf 5810R)
•     Bandelin Sonopuls ultrasound homogeniser Sonopuls UW3200
•     Biochrom Libra S60 Double Beam Spectrophotometer
•     Portable emission analyzer Testo 350 (Industrial and exhaust gases)
•     Agilent 7890B Gas Chromatograph. Analyses of gases up to C6
•     Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer Shimadzu QP2010Plus
•     Ricardo Single Cylinder Diesel Fuel Research Engine Power 8 KW