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Tuesday, 18 September 2007 12:34 |
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Presentation
The high pressure and high temperature laboratory was created in 1985 by the Carburos Metálicos S.A. company and the ICMAB-CSIC to promote, research and develop new applications of supercritical fluids and gases at high pressure and temperature.
The laboratory is part of a collaboration policy between private companies and public research centres that Carburos Metálicos and ICMAB have been developing for some time through research, promotion and technology and collaboration exchange agreements among the different working groups.
The laboratory’s move to new MATGAS facilities and its expansion with new equipment and reactors, has, undoubtedly, created one of the most complete supercritical fluids research plants in Spain.
Characteristics
The laboratory currently has 5 plants which provide the setting for a range of research activities with 10-ml to 16-litre volumes, and pressures from 500 bar to 400ºC | EQUIPMENT | Volume (ml) | Pmax (bar) | Tmax (ºC) | | PILOT PLANT | 1.000-2.000 | 500 | 400 | | 16 l REACTOR | 16.000 | 500 | 100 | | 300 ml REACTOR | 300 | 227 | 90 | | SAPPHIRE WINDOW REACTOR | 70 | 350 | 100 | | PHASE ANALYSER | 25-50 | 300 | -40 a 100 | | MICROREACTORS | 10 | 250 | 150 |
Aplications
Aerogel synthesis (blocks, layers and particles), pigment and drug crystallisation (homgeneous particle size), adsorption and desorption of adsorbates in adsorbents, degreasing of skin, medicines and different substances, disinfection of biological products, encapsulation of CO2 gas in solids, impregnation of polymers, extraction and fractionation of natural substances, recovering of natural substances, oils, greases and residues, purification of synthesis substances, acceleration of processes with the addition of surfactants, measuring of the solubility of substances in CO2, phase equilibriums, reactions with CO2 as solvent and a great many more.
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