Our laboratory and pilot plant facilities occupy 23,000sq.ft at our Basinstoke base, and includes laboratories dedicated to adsorption, lab scale extrusion, thermal analysis/high temperature techniques and wet chemistry. Several laboratories are mixed use.

We have pilot facilities for extrusion, larger furnaces, and adsorption systems.

Capabilities;

• Facilities close to London.
• Wide ranging capability.
• Some areas configurable for pilot work.
• Additional space available if needed.
• Capability to host customer equipment.
• In-house equipment design and build.

To support our activities we have an array of traditional and carbon material specific analytical equipment.

Techniques range from automated systems with full data-logging to traditional wet chemisty analysis. Some systems are built in house for such as our high pressure/high temperature adsorbtion system.

Capabilities;

• Equilibrium and dynamic adsorption
• Porosimetry
• Thermal analysis
• CHNO analysis
• Chromatography
• various Spectroscopy systems
• Traditional wet chemistry etc.

A key component of our work is the design and evaluation of processes as well as materials development. Our pilot facilities range from prototype materials production equipment through to pilot plants simulating real life processes.

Our pilot plants are changing constantly to reflect current operational and customer specific requirements.

Current examples;

• Pilot extrusion lines (ram and screw)
• Pilot polymer bead plant
• Pilot regenerable VOC system
• Pilot continuous furnace systems
• Pilot batch furnace systems
• Other confidential systems

We can offer a wide range of furnace facilities from small laboratory to pre-commercial scale. The majoratory of equipment is rated at 1200C with some rated to much higher temperatures. For small samples we have a capability of 2500C (inert gas only).

All of our furnaces are capable of running in controlled atmospheres and have environmental emission systems.

All work performed is subject to hazard assessment and compliance with emission standards,

Capabilities;

• Laboratory tube furnaces 1200C - 1500C
• Hight temperature laboratory furnace 2500C
• Larger scale chamber furnaces 1000C
• Pilot Mesh belt furnace system 1150C
• Pilot Rotary furnace 800C
• Many others

Extrusion technology has become a key component of our work whilst developing the NovaCarb honeycomb monolith structures. We have 2 screw extruders and one ram extruder operating in pilot mode but rated for full production.

Our extrusion is the cold forming of water based pastes, our facilities include the ancillary preparation, collection and drying systems.

Capabilities;

• Laboratory scale extruders
• Ram and Screw production extruders
• Powder preparation
• Mixing systems
• Air jet Colection and handling
• Drying units