FACILITIES
Our Laboratory
Located in the historic Goessmann Laboratory (named after UMass Professor, Charles Antony Goessmann), the Abdelrahman lab is housed on the first two floors. Graduate students are furnished with their own work-space in an office separate from the experimental rooms.
Reactors
The Eliminator
This Vapor phase packed-bed reactor works as vapor reactor system with controllable temperature and partial pressures
The Hydrogenator
This equipment is a vapor phase packed bed reactor with capabilities to control its temperature and flow rates externally
The Operando
Temperature controlled transmission IR cell. Capable of above ambient pressure and vacuum studies.
The Electrolyzer
Gas tight EChem reactor provides a reactor space for electrochemical reactions; chemical composition of the evolving gases is sampled in an online gas chromatograph.
The PBR
Utilizing a GC oven for temperature control, this unit allows for vapor doping of solid catalysts.
The Microcatalytic
(Prometheus)
Fully automated and remotely controlled microcatalytic reactor housed within the inlet liner of an Agilent 7890A GC equipped with an ALS for automated reactant delivery and a QCD/FID for calibration free quantification
The Polymerizer
Stirred batch reactor for high pressure polymerization
Catalyst Characterization
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FT-IR
Bruker Tensor II equipped with a transmission cell and DTGS detector
Reactive Gas Chromatography
Inlet Microcatalytic reactor, Agilent 7890B. Measures reactant coverages over catalyst samples, aided by a GC-FID. For catalyst treatment, reaction, and product analysis.
TGA
SDT Q600, TA Instruments. Provides in situ data on sample weight changes with respect to programmed temperature control and reactive gas feed.
Sorption Analyzer
Quantachrome IQ2
Chemisorption Analyzer
ChemBET Pulsar, Anton Paar
Adsorption Calorimeter
Adsorption Calorimeter, R. Gorte
Catalyst Synthesis
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TPX-1
GSL-1100x catalyst pretreatment. Gas selection, heating rate, and an MFC, type K thermocouple for temperature measurement, in a gas tight quartz U-tube.
TPX-2
GSL-1100x catalyst pretreatment. Gas selection, heating rate, and an MFC, type K thermocouple for temperature measurement, in a gas tight quartz U-tube.
Zeolite Synthesis
Vapor phase zeolite synthesis reactor
Furnace
Vacuum Drying
Furnace
Vacuum Drying
Vacuum Oven
Vacuum Drying
Analytical
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The Jetanizer, The QCD, The Legacy, Residual Gas Analyzer
Gas sampling Agilent 7890B equipped with dual split/splitless inlets, TCD and FID-Jetanizer for sensitive COx analysis
Miscellaneous
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Water Purifier
This in-house water system purifies tap water to an ultra-pure form that has a resistivity >18.2 megaohm-cm.
Hydraulic Press
Pelletizer
Zero-Air Generator
As a replacement for zero air cylinders, this produces Ultrazero air from house compressed air.
Balance
Semi-Analytical balance for precise measurements down to 0.001g
Function Generator
This is a device for creating well-defined signals varying in waveform, amplitude, frequency and duty cycle.
Potentiostat
This equipment controls the voltage/current between a working and a counter electrode.
Ultrasonic Bath
This is a syringe pump, wow!
The Craftsman
This is a syringe pump, wow!
Syringe Pump
This is a syringe pump, wow!
