Capabilities
NMR
Raman Spectroscopy
Bruker MultiRAM FT-Raman fitted with a liquid nitrogen cooled germanium detector and a Nd:YAG laser (λ = 1064 nm)
Infrared Spectroscopy
Perkin Elmer Spectrum One
- FT-IR with CsI beamsplitter, range 7800 to 220 cm-1 with Spectrum for Windows Software
- Perkin Elmer 983G despersive, stand alone IR, range 4500 to 400 cm-1
- Fittings: high temperature gascell
Mass Spectrometry
JEOL MStation JMS 700
- with EI, DEI, CI, DCI, FAB, FD/FI,(ESI, APCI)
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X-RAY-Diffraction Spectroscopy
Oxford Diffraction XCalibur 3
- 4-circle kappa platform
- Enhance Mo radiation
- Full safety cabinet
- CrysAlisPro (data collection and processing software)
- X-ray tube water chiller
- Sapphire CCD Chiller
- Oxford Cryosystem (liquid N2)
Thermal Analysis
DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry)
Linseis PT10
- Temperature range 20 - 500 °C
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DTA (Differential Thermal Analysis)
OZM, DTA 551-EX
- designed for explosive compounds
Mettler-Toledo DSC822e
- Device accessories:
- Autosampler with 34 positions
- Intracooler Julabo FT900
- Temperature range: -75—630 °C
- Temperature program: Freely programmable
- Heating rate: variable (0.1 Kmin-1 to 200 Kmin-1)
- Crucibles: 40 µL Aluminum
- Purge gas: Nitrogen at 30 mL/min
- Minimum sample amount: 0.3 mg (depends on sample)
- Software: Mettler-Toledo STARe Software V16.20
TGA (Thermogravimetric Analysis)
Perkin Elmer, TGA4000
- S/W KIT TA MGR SUITE SGNL USER V11
- Polyscience Chiller
Melting Point Apparatus
Büchi B-540
Bombcalorimetry
Parr 6200 isoperibol bomb calorimeter
- Fittings: 1104 Oxygen combustion bomb
Detonation Chamber KV-250 can be used for a number of various experimental performance, sensitivity and stability tests of energetic materials involving their full-scale detonations.
Furthermore, the chamber can beused as a safe temporary storage vessel for newly synthesized and potentially unstable explosive samples, for safe destruction of explosive wastes or special applications (such as explosive forming of metals). Short non-exhaustive list of the typical test and related instrumentation follows:
Performance tests
- Detonation velocity
- Detonation pressure
- Pressure-time measuremetns of confined explosions of condensed explosives, explosive dusts or aerosols
- Temperature(heat flow)- time measurements of confinedd explosions
- Brisance by lead block compression test (Hess test)
- Brisance by Kast's method
- Brisance by plate dent test
- Brisance by sand test
- Explosive power by lead block expansion test (Trauzl test)
- Mass velocity of detonation products by flash X-Ray photography
- Small-scale fragmentation test
- Propagation of the shock wave using high-speed cameras
Sensitivity tests
- Sensitivity to shock wave by small-scale gap test
- Sensitivity to heat by slow cook-off test
- Large-scale electrostatic discharge sensitivity test
- Sensitivity to electron beam and laser
- Transmission of detonation between charges
- Sensitivity of initiation by detonator
- Critical diameter test
- Deflagration to detonation transition test
Stability tests
- Large-scale long-term stability test
BAM friction tester
- Sensitivity to friction test
- 5 N - 360 N
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Drop hammer, Fallhammer test
BAM drop hammer
- Impact sensitivity
- 0.1 J - 100 J
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Electrostatic Discharge Sensitivity Tester
- OZM, ESD 2008A small-scale electrostatic spark sensitivity test
- 0.1 mJ - 10 J
Steel sleeves - Koenen test
According to BAM
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Sensitivity test
- Sensitivity to heat under confinement
Pycnometry
Quantachrome Gas Pycnometer Ultrapyc 1200e
- Helium gas
- three different cell volumes
UV/VIS Spectroscopy
Jenway 6315 Spectrophotometer
GC/MS
Shimadzu GC/MS
HPLC
VST
AAS
Karl Fischer Titrando