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Capabilities and Equipment

The PRL facility has four interconnected but individually bookable glove boxes, each tailored to a given stage of a pyroprocessing system with associated equipment.

Box 1 – Salt preparation

Salt and chemicals storage
Salt and chemicals storage
High Accuracy Scales
High Accuracy Scales
Vacuum Oven (250 C)
Vacuum Oven (250 C)
Large granite mortar and pestle
Large granite mortar and pestle
Mortar grinder
Mortar grinder

Box 2 – Large and medium scale salt measurement

Large well furnace
Large well furnace
Stirrer Arm
Bench top tube furnace
Bench top tube furnace
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software.

Box 3 – Medium scale salt measurement

Bench top tube furnace x2
Bench top tube furnace x2
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software

Box 4 – Salt analysis and optical/spectro-electrochemical measurements

ONH analyser
ONH analyser
TGA/DSC
TGA/DSC
Imaging bay
Imaging bay
Water cooled tube furnace with optical windows
Water cooled tube furnace with optical windows
IR - Raman - UV vis source and detectors

External to glove box

Tower tube furnace x2
Tower tube furnace x2
Schleck line for gas and vacuum lines
Schleck line for gas and vacuum lines
Salt loop designed for in-suite flowing salt measurement
Microscope to 1000x magnification