Test benches under controlled conditions
Different air streams with perfectly controlled inlet conditions (flow rate, humidity, temperature, concentration).
- Open gas vein instrumented for the evaluation of aerosol filtration processes
- Open gas vein equipped with instruments for studying oxidation processes
- Gas vein for evaluating adsorption processes
- Instrumented closed loop for multi-step process evaluation
- 1m3 inert enclosure
Particle filtration
Solid or liquid aerosol generators:
- Liquid-phase monodisperse solid aerosol: GP92 (Setra)
- Aérosol liquide ou solide polydispersé < 1 µm : générateur ATM220 (Topas)
- Solid aerosol from dry powders: RBG-1000 rotating brush generator (Palas)
Particle counters:
- Range 0.3 µm to 20 µm: two Grimm optical counters (model 1.108, Intertek)
- 10 nm to 365 nm range: Nanoscan SMPS counter (model 3910, TSI) *
- Solid or liquid aerosol diluter: Palas VKL-100S
Charge neutralizer:
- X-ray neutralizer (model 3088, TSI)
VOC generator, chemical analyses, material characterization
VOC micro-pollution generator, Bronkhorst
Continuous gas analyzers:
- Ozone: O342-series e (Environment SA) *
- Ozone: APOA-370 (Horiba)
- Nitrogen oxides: APNA-370 (Horiba)
- Total VOCs: Series 9000 (EPA)
Chromatography:
- HPLC Series 200 (Perkin Elmer)
- CG GC2010 (Shimadzu)
- CG Autosystem XL (Perkin Elmer)
Thermogravimetric analysis TGA:
- ATG/DSC 3+ Thermobalance (Mettler Toledo)
USMB platform hardware:
- Gas chromatograph coupled with a mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Characterization of materials (DSC, DMA, X-ray diffractometer, etc.)