Facilities

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As well as bench and laboratory scale systems, we have a significant number of pilot scale installations. These allow our team to test their research and technology developments in real-world environments. We have also installed pilot scale facilities at the Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences.

Analytical instruments

• Total/dissolved organic carbon analyser
• Ion chromatography equipment
• High performance liquid chromatography equipment
• Atomic absorption spectrometer
• Microwave plasma-atomic emission spectrometer
• Gas chromatography mass spectrometer (Triple quad)
• Liquid chromatography mass spectrometer (Single quad)
• UV-analyser
• Zetasizer
• Fourier transform infrared spectrometer
• Field-flow fractionation
• Malvern 2000 particle size analyser
• Contact angle analyser
• Automatic sieving system
• Vacuum drying oven
• Drying oven
• Furnace oven
• Ultrasonic bath
• Merck spectrophotometer
• HACH spectrophotometer
• Inline pressure measurement system
• Automated titration system

Membrane and media filtration systems

Lab scale systems

• Reverse osmosis system
• Lab scale direct contact membrane distillation system
• Lab scale cross flow micro-filtration, ultra-filtration and nano-filtration system
• Lab scale dead-end micro-filtration, ultra-filtration and nano-filtration system
• Lab scale modified fouling index and silt density index measurement system
• Lab scale electro spinning system for membrane fabrication
• Lab scale membrane bioreactor system
• Lab scale forward osmosis system
• Lab scale bio-filtration system
• Lab scale media filtration system
• Pilot scale stainless steel membrane filtration system

Pilot scale systems

• Pilot scale membrane bioreactor system
• Pilot scale ultra-filtration system
• Pilot scale reverse osmosis system
• Pilot forward osmosis system
• Pilot scale vacuum membrane distillation system