Available Equipment
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Ultrasonic Cleaning Tanks |
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Crest Ultrasonics
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Branson 40 kHz
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Vapor Degreaser with ultrasonics
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Pressure Washer
- VWR Glassware Washer Model 8202-924
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Sink on Drum
- Chem Wash - Oil weir, Heated, Plastic body Available for loaning
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Carbon Dioxide Cleaning
- Super Critical CO2 extraction (off site-vendor)
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Media Blasting
- Vatran Systems, Inc. Snow Gun-II Cleaner CO2 Snow Gun
- Baking Soda Blasting
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Manual Washing
- BYK-Gardner Straight Line Washability Tester (Abrasion Tester)
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Laser Ablation
- Laser Clean Systems - (off site vendor)
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- Tap water
- De-Ionized water system
- Reverse Osmosis water system
- Temperature-controlled Soak and Rinse tanks
- Heat Gun - Master Appliance Corp, Hot-air gun model HG-301A
- Centrifuge - Fisher Centrific Centrifuge Model 225-Max speed 4750 ±50 rpm
- Centifuge - New Holland Model K11 Dryer with heat
- Air knives
- Air blow off
- Heat lamp - Infrared Heat Lamp, Phillips 250 watt bulb
- Vacuum Oven - VWR Vacuum Oven
- Conventional Oven - Blue M Electric Company & Sybron Thermolyne Oven/Incubator
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Gravimetric
- Balance (0.0001 g) - Sartorious TE 124S
- Balance (0.0001 g) - Denver Instrument Co Analytical Balance model A-250
- Balance (0.1 g) - METTLER SB16001
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Black light fluorescence
- UVP Inc. Black light, Model UVL-56 longwave UV-366nm
- Spectronics Corporation's AR-GLO® 1 fluorescent marker
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Contact Angle Goniometry
- Laser & Video - Sony Hi-Resolution CCD-IRIS Color Video Camera, model# SSC-C374
- Microscope - Olympus Zoom Stereo Microscope with photography, Polaroid Microcam SLR
- Spectrophotometer -LaMotte's Smart Colorimeter
- pH meter - Orion Research microprocessor pH/millivolt meter 811
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Surface Quality Monitor (thin film measurement, coating thickness) -
- Optically Stimulated Electron Emission, PET SQM 100
- Slip/Peel Tester - IMASS, Inc. SP-102B-3M90
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Tensiometer
- Kruss Drop Volume Tensiometer
- DVT -10 with Harvard Apparatus Pump '44'
- Viscometer - Brookfield DV II Viscometer
- Refractometer - Fisher Refractometer
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Surfactant Test Kits - Bama Chem
- Anionic/Nonionic/Cationic surfactants
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Flash Point Measurements
- Close Cup - Koehler Instrument Company Tag Closed Cup Tester Model K14600
- Open Cup - Precision Scientific Cleveland Open Cup Flash Point Tester TS-74582 AW-8
- Digital Relative Humidity/Temperature Meter
- Mixers - Lightnin' Small Scale General Purpose Mixer
- CleanerSolutions for Solvent Substitution in Surface Cleaning, SSL database of Testing Results
- Industrial Cleaning Survey: Directory of Vendors 4th Ed., SSL database listing of vendors of cleaning related chemicals, cleaning equipment and recycling equipment.
- Computer Database, SAGE (Solvent Alternative Guide) from the U.S. EPA is available for public use in the lab
- Over 500 aqueous and semi-aqueous cleaning chemistries
- A wide selection of test coupons (steel, brass, aluminum, etc.)
- Representative soils and process fluids
This page updated Tuesday November 03 2009