Using our research facilities
The Department is housed in a purpose built facility including a 395 m2 multi-story mezzanine pilot plant which is equipped with a range of process equipment for research.
Facilities include:
- pilot scale spray dryer
- spray freezing and spray freeze drying facility
- computer controlled 1L and 100L reactor systems with provisions to use FBRM (Focused Beam Reflectance Measurement (Lasentec) for in situ chord length distribution measurement and particle count)
- an Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) probe with Zeiss diode array spectrophotometer for in situ quantitative and qualitative analysis for real-time monitoring and control
The Department has a range of reaction engineering rigs, including:
- continuous flow reactors e.g. a catalytic distillation column
- batch and continuous chromatographic reactors including differential flow reactors for studying gas phase reaction kinetics
- adsorption rigs for continuous operation, stirred and cross-flow membrane filtration cells
- experimental systems for studying multiphase phenomenon e.g. mixing and emulsification
There is a range of analytical facilities in the Department including: IR, multiple HPLCs, GCs, mass spectrometers, UV-vis spectrophotometers, elemental analysers, confocal microscope, porosimeters, contact angle and wetting measurement apparatus etc.
Additionally, there is a TA Instruments Q10 Differential Scanning Calorimeter, Linkam Controlled Temperature Microscope Stage (freeze drying capability). The Department also has a Class 2 cell culture training laboratory.
Using Departmental facilities
Our facilities are available for use to companies through research collaborations with academic staff.
To talk to someone in the Chemical Engineering Department about a potential project involving use of departmental facilities please contact our Research Coordinator:
Dr Danish Malik
D.J.Malik@lboro.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1509 222507