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Facilities

Facilities & equipment in black: Pretoria campus
Facilities & equipment in blue: Port Elizabeth campus

Polymer processing Laboratory equipment Analytical
  • Twin-screw extruder
  • Extruder/spheronizer
  • DSC
  • Single screw extruders
  • Spray dryer
  • TGA
  • Injection moulders
  • Fluidized bed coater
  • UV-Vis
  • 3-layer film blower
  • SCF reactors
  • PCS + zeta potential
  • High-speed mixers
  • High-pressure homogenizer
  • HPLC
  • Hot press
  • Rotor-stator homogenizers
  • AF-FFF with MALLS
  • Two-roll mill
  • Membrane emulsifier
  • SLS particle size analyzer
  • Rubber extruder
  • Ultrasonicator
  • DSA
  • Rotomoulder
  • Humidity cabinet
  • Spinning riffler
  • Dehumidifying dryer
  • Dissolution bath
  • ATR-FTIR
  • Spray dryer
  • Refrigerated centrifuge
  • Access to: SEM (& EDX), XPS, Instron, GC-MS, etc.
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  • LC-MS
  • Compression moulders
  • Freeze-drier
  • Instron
  • Buchi benchtop spray drier
  • Shaking water bath
  • ESEm (& EDX)
  • Electrospinning facility
  • RO Water purifier
  • DMA
  • Bicomponent fibre extrusion facility
  • 10-point hotplate
  • FTIR - TGA
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  • Rotavap
  • Instron Tensils testing (50 kN)
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  • Nonwoven pilot plant(needlepunching, hydroentanglement, adhesive and thermal bonding)
  • Dynatup - dynamic impact tester
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  • Compression moulding (2700 kN)
  • Air filtration testing
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  • Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding
  • Porometer
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  • NIR Spectroscopy
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  • Digital Image Analysis
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  • In-Plane and Cross- plane water permeability
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  • Moisture Vapour Transmission
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  • Dual Cone Calorimeter
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  • Vertical, horizontal and inclined plane fire testing
  • Contact person Pretoria campus: Jana Van Heerden
    Contact person Port Elizabeth campus:Dr Rajesh Anandjiwala

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