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Equipment for Characterization and Analysis

Equipment and method for measuring the gas permeability of porous materials, own development
Equipment's Group:
Equipment for Characterization and Analysis
Organization(s):
Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems “Academician Evgeni Budevski”
Technical characteristics:
  • Gas flow of working gases (Hydrogen, air, oxygen, argon and mixtures): 10 – 140 ml/min.
  • Diameter of the testing samples up to 45 мм.
Function:

Gas permeability measurement with gases: hydrogen, air, oxygen, argon and gas mixtures.

Manufacturer:
IEES - BAS
Year: n/a
Apparatus for thermal analysis and analysis of exhaust gases: TG / DTA / MASS Setaram Evo -1600
Equipment's Group:
Equipment for Characterization and Analysis
Organization(s):
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry at BAS
Technical characteristics:
  • Temperature range from room temperature up to 16000 C,
  • Possibility to work in different gas flows, possibility of vacuuming of the system and controlled cooling.
  • Pfeiffer Quadruple Mass Spectrometer, under vacuum.
Function:

In-situ registration of ongoing exothermic and endothermic reactions, determination of weight loss and type of released gas phase of a predetermined mass. Determination of thermal parameters of organic and inorganic substances, establishment of phase transitions, melting and decomposition processes and analysis of the released gas phase in the heating process.

Manufacturer:
Setaram Evo -1600
Year: 2009
Powder X-ray diffractometer Bruker D8 Advance with LynxEye detector
Equipment's Group:
Equipment for Characterization and Analysis
Organization(s):
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry at BAS
Technical characteristics:
  • High voltage generator with power up to 3KW
  • Ceramic radiant tube with power 2.4 KW and Cu-anode, goniometer is a vertical θ / θ.
  •  Linear LynxEye solid-state detector.
  • Software packages for data collection and analysis: DIFFRACplus and Topas
Function:

Wide range of applications - from routine qualitative and quantitative phase analysis using ICDD PDF-2 (2009), through determination of crystallite size and microstresses to crystal structure determination. Qualitative and quantitative phase analysis of polycrystalline powder and sintered samples of inorganic and organic compounds, including metals, alloys, ceramics, composites, polycrystalline thin films, etc.

Manufacturer:
Bruker
Year: 2006
High-resolution transmission electron microscope HRTEM JEOL 2100
Equipment's Group:
Equipment for Characterization and Analysis
Organization(s):
Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry at BAS
Technical characteristics:
  • Acceleration voltage 200 kV.
  • Maximum resolution 0.23 nm between two points and 0.14 nm in cell.
  • Maximum magnification up to 1.5 million times conventional and 2 million times in scanning mode, 5 basic regimes of operation - light and dark field microscopy, diffraction from a selected and nano-sized area, and diffraction in a focused beam.
Function:

Local method for investigation of structure, morphology, phase composition, defects such as dislocations and others. For profound research on the structure of different materials. High-resolution image capture (HRTEM) imaging, allowing to capture the atomic structure of the sample. By selected area electron diffraction mode (SAED), the crystal structure and the type of substance in a given area of ​​the sample is determined. Equipped with GATAN Orius 832 SC1000 CCD Camera for digital image capture.

Determination of structure, phase composition and surface morphology of thin layers, volumetric and fibrous materials, powder samples, etc.

Manufacturer:
JEOL
Year: 2009
MAGNUM-T light trinocular microscope with 3.2 mPx camera
Equipment's Group:
Equipment for Characterization and Analysis
Organization(s):
Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski" - Laboratory of Electrochemistry
Technical characteristics:
  • 3.2 mMРx camera
Function:

Microscopic observation and photographing of bacteria and eukaryotes.

Manufacturer:
MAGNUM-T
Year: 2009