Facilities

We have a wide range of state-of-the-art instruments and test equipment, and the following laboratories: particle manufacturing; batch processes; tomography applications; colloid engineering; pharmaceutical particulates; reaction kinetics; particulate systems engineering; and atomic force microscopy. We also have powder processing facilities, particle characterization and analysis equipment and computational simulation workstations.

IPSE is located in a dedicated space consisting of laboratories and office accommodation located on the ground and second floors of the Engineering Building. In addition some Pilot Plant facilities are available.

• Particle Manufacturing Laboratory
  - supercritical fluids, emulsification rigs, stability testing, spray drying, extrusion
• Batch Processes Laboratory
  - batch instrumented reactors, crystallisation,in-process imaging
• Tomography Applications Laboratory
  - electrical impedance tomography, powder hopper, flow loop, bubble column
• Powder Processing
  - dry powder processing, measurement methods for flow and mixing
  
• Particle Characterisation
  - analysis equipment for particle sizing, shape analysis, density, rheology, microtomography
• Colloid Engineering Laboratory
  - experimental laboratory for wet fine colloids and mineral systems, settling, flocculation, zeta potential, surface tension,quartz microbalance
  
• Pharmaceutical Particulates Laboratory
  - fine particle processing, ultrafine powder production, granulation
  
• Reaction Kinetics Laboratory and Pilot Plant
  - catalysis, environmental applications, reaction kinetics
• Computational Simulation
  - research workstations for PGs and other projects, Beowulf cluster
• Particulate Systems Engineering
  - particle physics, comminution, indentation
• Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory
  - two AFMs