Photochemical Reaction Engineering: Equipment

Photochemical Reactor Equipment

  • various commercial photoreactors
  • MPDS®EVO photoreactor miniplant with various equipment and reactors
  • various custom-made photoreactors
  • setup for photochlorinations
  • pumps
    • syringe pumps (Cetoni)
    • micro annular gear pumps (HNP Microsysteme)
    • piston pumps (ISMATEC)
    • membrane pumps (KNF)
  • light sources
    • large variety of LEDs
    • mercury vapor lamps with different power
    • solar simulator
    • Asahi Spectra MAX-350 Xenon light source with numerous equipment
      • mirror modules (250 -385 nm, 385 - 740 nm)
      • band pass filter (254, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350nm)
      • light guide rod unit
      • CMS-100 monochromator
    • Energetic EQ-99 MP Mod
  • 3D-scanning radiometetric measuring setup
  • Solectro plant
    • plasmachemical anodic oxidation of metals via electric spark discharges 
    • currently used to coat metals with TiO2 as a photocatalyst
    • suitable for metals like aluminum, titanium, tantal, niob, zirconium

Analytics

  • 3D-scanning radiometetric measuring setup
  • various fibre optical spectrometer
  • various AvaLight light sources
  • various UV/VIS measuring cells
  • Newport 1936-R optical power meter (200 - 1100 nm)
  • Mountain Spheres Paula system (15 cm diameter)
    • extensive accessories
  • Kern Stereo-Zoom-Microscop OZP 558 with ODC 825 microscop camera
  • Dataphysics contact angle measurement device with various accessories
  • Qmicro DynamiQ-S micro-GC analyzers
  • PyroScience Firesting FSO2-4 Ooxygen sensors
  • Analytik Jena multi N/C 2100 S TOC, NPOC, TC, TIC POC, TNb analyzer

Miscellaneous

  • 3D printers
    • GermanRepRap X400 (Build volume: 350 x 400 x 310 mm)
    • Modified „Protos“ – Former German Reprap Protos v3 for printing FEP-filament (Build volume: 210 x 210 x 140 mm)
    • Prusa MK3S + Multimaterial unit MMU2S (Build volume: 250 x 210 x 210 mm)
    • GEEEtech A30 (Build volume: 300 x 300 x 400 mm)
    • Peopoly Moai SLA printer (Build volume: 130 x 130 x 180mm)
  • Common printing materials
    • Poly lactic acid (PLA)
    • Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
    • Polyethylene terephthalate – glykol (PET-G)
    • Polypropylene (PP)
    • Fluorinated polyethylene propylene (FEP)
  • filament fabrication
    • Filabot Original Filabot
    • 3DEVO SHR3D IT
    • 3DEVO Composer 450

Simulation software (research licenses)

  • MatLab
  • COMSOL Multiphysics
  • ANSYS
  • OpenFOAM