Infrastructure

CHEMICAL REACTION EQUIPMENT
• Pressurized reactors (0.1-16 L, from Parr Instruments) with temperature and stirring rate controls.
• Glass reactors with temperature and stirring rate controls for operation at atmospheric pressure
• Microwave, Monowave 450 and Microwave digestion, Mars6 iWave, reactors.

SEPARATION EQUIPMENT
• Supercritical fluid extraction (at the pilot scale)
• Microwave hydrodiffusion and gravity
• Membrane separation units (ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis) on laboratory scale (dead-end and crossflow filtration) and pilot scale (crossflow filtration)
• Film evaporator
• Freeze dryer
• Spray dryer
• Centrifugal and ultracentrifugal separation
• Chromatographic separation at the laboratory and pilot scales

BIOTECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT
• Fermenters at the laboratory and pilot scales
• Orbital shakers with temperature and speed controls
• Autoclaves
• Laminar flow hood
• Anaerobic chamber

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT
• HPLCs (Agilent) with RI and DAD detectors
• FPLC
• HPAEC-PAD
• GC-MS
• VIS-UV spectrophotometer
• Rheometer of stress controlled MCR-302
• IR spectrophotometer
• Kjeldahl unit
• Karl-Fischer unit
• Fluorimeter
• Spectrophotometric analysis (MS, MALDI-TOF, ESI)

GENERAL LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
• Ovens and muffle
• Refrigeration and freezing
• Ultrapure water production
• Thermostats
• pHmeters
• Conductivimeter
• Hardware and software for simulation and control