Equipment at CEBC Headquarters Laboratories

2 ReactIR 50mL Reactors (MettlerToledo/Parr)
Cambridge High Pressure Viscometer
50mL Microclave Reactor (Autoclave Engineers)
3 5mL View Cell Reactors (custom)
Cambridge High Pressure Viscometer
GC/MS (Varian Saturn 2100)
3 GC (Varian 3800, 3380, 3350)
2 HPLC (Varian Prostar, 9050/9012)
2 UV-Vis (Ocean Optics USB2000, Varian Cary 3)
Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer (Hi-tech SF41)
FT-IR (ThermoNicolet Avitar 360)
ICP-OES (JobinYvon 2000)
Phase Equilibruim Analyzer (Thar Designs)
50 mL Expansion Cell (Jerguson)
Beowulf Computational Cluster (Atipa, 48 Processor, running Gaussian, Charmm, Dlpoly, Amber, MCCS Towhee, Gibbs, MOLDEN, xmgrace)
4 Syringe Pumps (Teledyne-Isco 260D, 500D x2, 100D)
2 Buchi Rotavapor
2 Dryboxes

Partial Listing of Additional Equipment Available on KU Campus

Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (Rupperecht & Patashnick)
Catalyst Characterization Suite (Micromeretics Autochem, Gemini)
ESR Spectrometer (Bruker)
Various 50-300mL continuous stirred reactors and fixed-bed reactors (Autoclave Engineers)
FT-IR, Diffuse Reflectance and Transmission (Nicolet 460)
Service laboratories on campus also provide ample resources for NMR, high-resolution Mass Spectrometry, XRD, and SEM measurements.

Partial Listing of Available Equipment at UI Campus

Fermentors (8 2L B. Braun Biostat B’s fully instrumented and automated; 8 2L Biostat A’s – less automated; 2 10L Braun highly automated; 1 B. Braun 20L highly automated; 1 75L B. Braun highly automated; 2 100L highly automated; and 1 1,000L B. Braun highly automated.)
Downstream Processing Equipment (Beckman J2-MC (2.2 liter @ 10,000g max), Sharples (SA-12, and two SA-26) centrifuges)
Filtration Systems (Two Millipore Pellicon, SRT-50 Filtration System, with micro-, ultra-, and diafiltration abilities)
Cell Disrupters (French Press, sonic dismembrator, and batch & continuous: Microfluidizer (M110) and Dyno Mill (KDL))
Rotovaps (Pilot scale: Continuous-flow, 20-liter Buchi 175 and Buchi R153, Lab scale: Buchi R114, dry ice cooled, Buchi R114, water cooled)
Preparative-Scale Liquid Chromatography System (2 Pharmacia Akta Explorers) Flash Chromatography (Biotage for organic separations)
Freeze Dryer (Pilot-scale Virtis SQ 35EL (20 L) with computer controls)
Existing CBB Analytical Instruments –
HPLC (2 Shimadzu with three different detectors; two UV/Visible Shimadzu 1600, 2100 spectrophotometers; 1 Shimadzu GC-9A gas chromatograph)
Bioanalyzer (YSI) Pharmacia Gradifrac LC system;
Electrophoresis (Bio-Rad) Fotodyne Gel Documentation system;
Ultracentrifuge (Beckman Optima XL-70)
Mass spectrometer dedicated to fermentor off gas analysis (Perkin Elmer MGA 1200)
Sartorious moisture analysis;
Fisher surface tensiometer
Hollow fiber filtration analytical system.

Specialized Facilities Available at WUStL Campus

Computer Automated Radioactive Particle Tracking (CARPT)
Computed Tomographic Scanner (CT)
Trickle Bed Reactor Laboratory
CREL-XYTEL Kinetic Study Unit (XYCREL)
Rotating Packed Bed Reactor Catalytic Micro Reactor System with Mass Spectrometer (TAP)
High Pressure Slurry and Basket Reactors
Analytical Equipment : Gas Chromatographs (TCD, FID, PID, and ELCD detectors), Differential Refractormeter, Mass Spectrometer, pH, DO, Ozone meters etc.

Listing of Equipment in the Chemical Engineering Department at PVAMU

Orbital incubator/shaker (2 New Brunswick Innova 4330)
Water bath shaker (New Brunswick Innova 3100)
Steam Sterilizer (All American 25X Bench-top)
High Pressure Steam Sterilizer (Yamoto SM 300)
Freezers (Revco -40°C; Environmental Equipment -80°C)
Spectronic 20D spectrophotometer
UV-VIS spectrophotometer PC system (Perkin Elmer Lambda 25)
Microscopes (Fisher Scientific Stereomaster; VanGuard 1200CM)
Incubators (Boekel Scientific 139400; Fisher 13-255-9 Isotherm)
Refrigerated Centrifuges (Labnet Hermle Z33MK-2 Benchtop; Beckman Coulter Avanti J20-XP)
Fermentors (New Brunswick 3-L Bioflo 110; 10-L New Brunswick Bioflo IV) HPLC BIN/UV/MAN (Perkin Elmer TCWS 200)
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu AA-6200)
GC (HP 5890) Barnstead/Thermolyne 30400 Furnace
The Baker Company SG-603 SteriGard III