Facilities

Students in the Hazlett group have access to state of the art chemical engineering lab equipment in the brand new lab space in the Applied Science Hub. This includes a bench scale flow reactor, pictured below (left) and a bench scale batch reactor (middle), to analyze catalytic performance. Online gas analysis can be done with a Nicolet iS50 FTIR equipped with a gas cell, with a APIX micro GC, or MKS MultiGas 2030 Gas Analyzer. There is also capacity to do DRIFTS with a Harrick Praying Mantis accessory equipped with optional Harrick High Temperature Reaction Chamber (right). 

Shared facilities in the department include characterization equipment important for the characterization of catalyst samples such as:

• High-pressure thermogravimetric analyzer: determines the reactivity of materials by measuring mass changes due to heating in a gas stream.
• Differential scanning calorimeter: measures the heat capacity of materials. It can detect structural changes resulting from heating of materials.
• Gas adsorption analyzer: measures surface properties of porous materials such as catalysts and nanomaterials.
• Atomic force microscope: scans the surface of a sample on a molecular scale with a probe and composes a synthetic image of the surface as if it was photographed through a microscope with extreme magnification.
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer​

For more information about the Chemical and Materials Engineering department, visit the following link: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering (CME) (concordia.ca)

Applied Science Hub on Loyola Campus - Home of Chemical and Materials Engineering 

Applied Science Hub

Nicolet iS20 FTIR, equipped with ATR accessory

Micromeritics 3Flex Surface Characterization

Concordia University Facilities

​More information about research centers at Concordia University can be found by following the links below:
www.concordia.ca/ginacody/research/centres.html
https://www.concordia.ca/research/nanoscience.html