The Blechner Center operates seven laboratories equipped with modern experimental facilities for research in heterogeneous catalysis. Furthermore, the Blechner Center is an active partner with the Ilse Katz Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology in the establishment and operation of advanced facilities for characterization of nano-materials.
Catalyst Preparation and Characterization
Building 63, Room 212: equipment for impregnation and precipitation, stainless-steel and teflon reactors, kneader, BET-PSD (nova 1000, nova 2000), crush strength device.
Building 63, Room 214: TPD, TPR and TPO (Micromeritics) instrument.
Building 59, Room 226 – glove box.
Building 59, Room 403 – supercritical drying device
Building 63, Room 215 – 3 drying ovens, 4 calcination ovens.
Building 59, Room 402 – High pressure laboratory.
Building 51, Rooms 009 – XRD (IAR), Room 015 – XRD (IAR).
Building 51, Room 017 – ESCA/XPS (ME).
Building 51, Room 014 – HRTEM.
Building 51, Room 009 – SEM.
Testing Equipment
Building 63, Room 224 – 6 GC, 3 HPLC, IR detector, SCD detector.
Building 63, Room 218 – mini-pilot fixed-bed reactor rig consists of 3 high pressure 100 cc reactors, bench scale fixed-bed reactor rig consists of 3 high pressure 30 cc reactors.
Building 63, Room 214 – TOC device (Shimadzu).
Building 63, Room 226 – 5 experimental rigs consist of tubular and stirred reactors for moderate and high pressure.
Building 59, Room 401 – Fully automatic fixed-bed micro bench scale reactor (Vinci Technologies), 2 GC.
Building 59, Room 402 – high pressure hydrogenation system
Building 59, Room 403 – automatic high pressure mini-pilot trickle bed
Building 59, Room 403 – 2 high pressure 3L autoclaves, 1 high pressure 1L autoclave
