Experimental Capabilities
Measurement of Phase Equilibria
Computer-controlled isothermal/ isobaric dynamic stills.
Temperature range from ambient to 170 oC
Pressure range from close to absolute vacuum to 5 atms
- VLE measurements
- VLLE measurements
- Vapor pressure measurement
- Boiling point measurements
High pressure vapor-liquid Equilibrium Static cells.
Temperature range from -30 oC to 250 oC
Pressure range from 0 to 350 bar
- VLE measurements
- VLLE measurements
- Gas hydrate measurements
- Vapor pressure measurements
- PVT properties – pure gases and mixtures
- Small volume cells for expensive chemicals
- Synthetic techniques
Liquid-liquid Equilibria Measurements.
Temperature range from -30 oC to 200 oC
Pressure range from 1 to 200 bar
Solid-liquid equilibrium cells.
Temperature range from -80 oC to 90 oC
Gas solubilities
- Intelligent Gravimetric Analyser
- Absorption and desorption isotherms
Infinite Dilution Activity Coefficients
- Differential Ebulliometers
- Gas-Liquid Chromatographic techniques
- Inert Gas Stripping Techniques
Batch Distillation Studies
- Spinning band columns
- Laboratory batch distillation columns
Continuous Distillation Studies
- 6 m Normschlift column with Sulzer packing
- 40 tray sieve-plate column
Measurement of Partition Coefficients
- Octanol/ Water
- Water/ Air
Measurements of Thermophysical properties
- Density (including measurements up to 600 bar)
- Refractive Index
- Excess properties
- Viscosity
- Heat capacity
- Thermal conductivity
- Electrical conductivityMeasurements of Thermophysical properties
- Density (including measurements up to 600 bar)
- Refractive Index
- Excess properties
- Viscosity
- Heat capacity
- Thermal conductivity
- Electrical conductivity
Theoretical Capabilities
- Low and high pressure phase equilibrium computation and modeling
- Thermophysical property predictions
- Preliminary design computations for separation processes
- Molecular simulations
- Environmental fate modeling