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
![Salt and chemicals storage](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/salt-chemicals-storage.jpg)
High Accuracy Scales
![High Accuracy Scales](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/scales.jpg)
Vacuum Oven (250 C)
![Vacuum Oven (250 C)](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/vacuum-oven.jpg)
Large granite mortar and pestle
![Large granite mortar and pestle](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/granite-mortar.jpg)
Mortar grinder
![Mortar grinder](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/grinder.jpg)
Box 2 – Large and medium scale salt measurement
Large well furnace
![Large well furnace](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/furnace.jpg)
Stirrer Arm
![](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/default_images/development_0.jpg)
Bench top tube furnace
![Bench top tube furnace](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/bench-top-furnace.jpg)
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
![Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software.](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/potentiostat-high-current.jpg)
Box 3 – Medium scale salt measurement
Bench top tube furnace x2
![Bench top tube furnace x2](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/bench-top-furnace_0.jpg)
Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software
![Potentiostat and high current module, including laptop with control software](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/potentiostat-high-current_0.jpg)
Box 4 – Salt analysis and optical/spectro-electrochemical measurements
ONH analyser
![ONH analyser](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/onh.jpg)
TGA/DSC
![TGA/DSC](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/tga.jpg)
Imaging bay
![Imaging bay](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/imaging-bay.jpg)
Water cooled tube furnace with optical windows
![Water cooled tube furnace with optical windows](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/water-cooled-furnace.jpg)
IR - Raman - UV vis source and detectors
![](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/default_images/development_0.jpg)
External to glove box
Tower tube furnace x2
![Tower tube furnace x2](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/tower-tube-furnace.jpg)
Schleck line for gas and vacuum lines
![Schleck line for gas and vacuum lines](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/equipment/schleck.jpg)
Salt loop designed for in-suite flowing salt measurement
![](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/default_images/development_0.jpg)
Microscope to 1000x magnification
![](http://www.prl.chem.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/default_images/development_0.jpg)