Equipment
- Computer-controlled modular mini reactor for evaluation of reaction kinetics and pressure drop in catalyst and filter samples. Capable to test powder, monolith slice, or cylindrical monolith core
- Independent test rig for cold-flow pressure-drop testing
- Soot filtration test rig
- Bronkhorst mass flow controllers, on-line preparation of mixture from synthetic gases (CO, O2, H2, NO, NO2, NH3, CO2, H2O, N2, hydrocarbons from CH4 to C12H26, etc.)
- High-speed FTIR analyzer MKS 2030HS (sampling period 0.2 s)
- Mass spectrometer Hiden QGA with spatially resolved capillary inlet (SpaciMS)
- Paramagnetic, UV and IR analyzers ABB Advance Optima
- Motormill Eiger Torrance M100 VSE-TFV with YTZ beads for milling catalyst suspensions
- Washcoating rig for catalytic coating of lab-scale monoliths, including filter samples
- Programmable furnace Carbolite
- Miniature inverted soot generator Argonaut Scientific MISG-2
- Solid particle counting system Horiba MEXA-2000-SPCS
- Characterization of catalytic filter samples (SEM, TEM, CO chemisorption, XRD, XPS, MIP) located at central labs and/or at the co-operating research groups at UCT Prague
- X-ray microtomography available at cooperating labs (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen – static XRT, Paul Scherrer Institute and University of Manchester in Harwell – time-resolved XRT)
- In-house developed modular software for dynamic simulations of catalytic monoliths, filters and pipes under transient conditions, 1D mathematical models with efficient numerical solvers in Fortran
- In-house developed models and solvers for 3D reaction-transport simulations in OpenFOAM
- Cluster of 64-core CPU computers with 1 TB RAM each
Updated: 17.1.2022 17:14, Author: Jan Kříž
