Since its inception in 1996, the Adsorption Research Group has established a significant experimental and numerical infrastructure to facilitate current and future research.  This page provides some information on the facilities available.

• Experimental

  • RPSA Apparatus

  • O2VSA/CO2VSA Apparatus

  • 1-bed PSA apparatus for separation of wet gases

  • Breakthrough Columns

  • Equilibrium Test Unit

  • Kinetic Test Unit

  • High temperature oven for sieve activation

  • High P, High T Gravimetric Adsorption Apparatus (Rubotherm)

  • Parr autoclave reactor

  • Quartz furnace tube reactor (CVD)

  • adsorbent synthesis and ion exchange equipment

   

• Analytical

  • Micromeritics ASAP 2010M Gas adsorption Analyzer

  • Micromeritics ASAP 2020M Gas adsorption Analyzer with chemisorption apparatus

  • Micromeritics 9410 Mercury Porosimeter

  • Micromeritics Accupyc 1330 Gas Pycnometer

  • Micromeritics multisample Smart Prep degassing unit

  • HP GC-MS

  • Mettler-Toledo TGA

  The Adsorption Research Group also makes considerable use of analytical facilities of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Materials Engineering, School of Chemistry and the Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy.  These include XRD, SEM, TEM, HRTEM, ICP-AES, SiNMR, FTIR, XPS, etc.

   

• Numerical

  •    MINSA v2.1 numerical cyclic adsorption simulator

  •   ISOTHERM v2 numerical isotherm analysis program

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