Kerry Mathew Dooley

Equipment and Facilities
for Contract Research

LSU encourages business/university research partnerships. These can be established on many levels, ranging from small grants with no overhead for pilot projects, to large-scale agreements negotiated with the researcher(s) and LSU's Technology Transfer Office. A partial list of the equipment we (Dooley, Knopf) now have which could be used in such partnership projects is given below. This list does not include the larger analytical equipment on campus, which we have access to but do not own.

(1) Catalytic (or Not) Reactors

1. Gas flow reactor systems, low pressure, eight parallel for high throughput experimentation and two single reactor systems for larger loads.
   
   
2. Pulse reactor system, gas/liquid.
   
   
3. Gas/liquid continuous reactor system operable to 30 atm, 600C.
   
   
4. High-Pressure Batch Reactors – several autoclave systems ranging in size from 20 mL to 2 L.; a 1 L system is rated to 2500 rpm and 30,000 psi at 100C.
   

(2) Materials Analysis Equipment

REU student Adam Ekenseair assembling microreactor

1. FTIR – Mattson Infinity with ATR, DRIFTS and high-pressure cells
   
   
2. Perkin-Elmer TGA
   
   
3. Micromeritics chemisorption and surface area apparatus
   
   
4. Jasco UV-VIS with solids accessory
   
   
5. Haake torque rheometer with high shear mixer and twin screw extruder
   
   
6. Raman spectrometer, with microprobe and CCD
   
   
7. Bohlin rheometer

(3) High-Pressure Processing

In our current SCF pilot-plant system, a diaphragm compressor can generate 3000-8000 psi, with flow rates up to 1 lb/min. Ruska continuous high pressure metering pumps can supply any cosolvent or additive. Windowed view cells and on-line sampling are available. For high-pressure molding studies a prototype system for cylindrical specimens (~40 mm diameter) is operational.

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