The PRL facility has four interconnected but individually bookable glove boxes, each tailored to a given stage of a pyroprocessing system with associated equipment.
Capabilities and Equipment
Box 1 – Salt preparation
Salt and chemicals storage
High Accuracy Scales
Vacuum Oven (250 C)
Large granite mortar and pestle
Mortar grinder
Box 2 – Large and medium scale salt measurement
Large well furnace
Stirrer Arm
Bench top tube furnace
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
Box 3 – Medium scale salt measurement
Bench top tube furnace x2
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
Box 4 – Salt analysis and optical/spectro-electrochemical measurements
ONH analyser
TGA/DSC
Imaging bay
Water cooled tube furnace with optical windows
IR - Raman - UV vis source and detectors
External to glove box
Tower tube furnace x2
Schleck line for gas and vacuum lines
Salt loop designed for in-suite flowing salt measurement
Microscope to 1000x magnification