Facilities
Below is a list of equipment that the Bioadhesives Research Team has available to use:
For adhesive formulation
- Chemistry lab for formulating phenol formaldehyde, urea formaldehyde and melamine formaldehyde up to 3 L per batch
- A pilot plant reactor for conducting hydrolysis process under heat and pressure if needed
- An 8 L size steam heating kettle for conducting hydrolysis process up to boiling temperature
For composite fabrication
- A kiln for wood/wood flake drying
- A large drier for fiber/other material drying
- A blender for liquid resin application
- A glue spreader for plywood resin application
- A cold press of 12” x 42”
- A
Wabash
press with 150 ton maximum pressure and 250 C heating. It can make board up to 15” x 15”
For composite testing
- Wood shop for sample preparations
- A Universal testing machine for most of wood composite evaluations
- A pressure cylinder for wood preservative treatment
- An environmental hood for fungi inoculation
For plastic/wood composite fabrication
- A twin screw extruder
- A injection molding machine
- A Instron® for plastic evaluation
- A impact testing device
For protein and other bio-material analysis
- Protein (%) determination
- Oil (%) determination
- Ash (%) determination
- A spectrophotometer with UV
- Protein functionality evaluations
Access to other university facilities
- Thermal analysis
- Protein analysis
- Green houses
Visit www.ccur.info/facilities.html for more information regarding available facilities
