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The Reaction Engineering Laboratory at UNSW has an array of modern intruments available for research and consultancy work.
This includes:
| High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
Unit: A computer controlled-HPLC system (Class VP ver. 6) with photodiode array, refractive index and ion conductivity detectors for compositional analysis of organic acids, aldehydes, macromolecular compounds and ionic species. |
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Micromeritics 2910 AutoChem: Automated catalyst characterization unit for the determination of the physicochemical properties of catalysts such as metal dispersion, metal surface area, acid site concentration, etc. |
| JASCO UV-Visible spectrophotometer (model 550): with integrating sphere for, for example, solid diffuse reflectance measurements and liquid composition analysis. |  |
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Nicolet Nexus FTIR spectrophotometer: With Smart Collector for solid and liquid sample composition analysis. It is also coupled to a high pressure reaction cell for in-situ mechanistic investigation. |
| Gas Chromatographs: We currently have 15 gas chromatographs (capillary and packed columns) equipped with thermal conductivity and flame ionization detectors. (Shimdazu GC-17A and GC-8A shown) |
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Shimadzu 5000 Total Organic Carbon Analyzer: with Solid Sample module for organic carbon content determination of liquid and solid specimens. |
| Solid Sampler for TOC Analyzer |  |
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Shimadzu UV-1601UV-Vis Spectrophotometer |
Tonsimis Critical Dryer: |
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In addition to the above analytical equipment the laboratory is equiped with an array of
experimental reaction vessels, including:
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