The HOPE Group
The Future is Now – HydrOgen Production from the Earth’s subsurface (HOPE)
Below is a list of the major equipment in The Hope Group. Besides, we also have access to equipment in (1) the Department of Petroleum Engineering including: a CT-scanner, core flooding systems, triaxial rock compression equipment, and wombat scratch test machine, etc.; (2) Material Characterization Center including: Polarizing Digital Microscope, TGA, SEM, TEM, FIB-SEM, FTIR-IR microscope, FT-Roman spectrometer, and DSC; (3) Department of Geosciences including: BET surface area analyzer, ICP-AES, LA-ICP-MS, X-ray fluorescence, and petrographic microscope; (4) Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry including HPLC, Thermo LCQ Fleet LC-MS, UV-VIs, CHNS analyzer, Atomic absorption spectroscopy, FT-IR, and Ion chromatography; and (5) Computational resources at HPCC Center.
Facilities at The Hope Group
Two Microwave Reactor Systems
• Sairem microwave generators:
– Solid State (450 W)
– Magnetron (3 KW)
– Frequency: 2450 ± 50 MHz
– WR 340 waveguide
• Cavity:
– E field (Sairem)
– H field (Malachite Technologies)
• Three mass flow meters:
– Resolution: 0.01 mL/min
• Software: real-time, automatic control of temperature and microwave power
Mass Spectrometer – The MAX300-IG Industrial Gas Analyzer, Extrel
- Online, real-time, high performance mass spectrometer
- Speed: a typical analysis time of less than 400ms per component with the capability to analyze an unlimited number of components and sample streams
- Sensitivity: Detection ranges are 100% to 10 ppm (parts per million) using a Faraday Detector or 100% to 10 ppb (parts per billion) using the Dual Faraday/Electron Multiplier detector
- Precision: a precision of ± 0.0025 absolute, based on a 1% Argon concentration
BTX III X‐ray Diffraction (XRD) Analyzer, Olympus
- XRD resolution: 0.25° 2θ FWHM
- XRD range: 5-55° 2θ
- Detector type: 1024 × 256 pixels – 2D Peltier-cooled CCD
High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) system, Agilent 1260
- Agilent G1329B – 1260 ALS
- G1316A – 1260 TCC
- G1315D – 1260 DAD VL
- G7121B – 1260 FLD Spectra
- G1311B – 11260 Quat Pump
- Sample tray
- G4260B – 1260 ELSD
High Pressure Pumps – DCI VPA Syringe Pumps
- Pressure: up to 10,000 psi (~69 MPa) (± 0.1% of full scale)
- Flow rate: 10 nL/min to 100 mL/min (± 0.1% of full scale)
- Wetted part: Hastelloy
- Dual Cylinder
Paar Autoclave reactors
- Two benchtop stands
- Four autoclave reactors
- Pressure: up to 3000 Psi
- Temperature: up to 350 ℃
- Volume: up to 500 mL
- Material: Hastelloy C vessel with a gold bag
Furnace – Mellen
- Temperature: up to 1250 ℃
- Used for pyrolysis, assisted combustion, catalyst synthesis, etc.
High Pressure High Temperature Visualization Cell
- Pressure: up to 40 MPa
- Temperature: up to 150 ℃
- 20 cm × 20 cm view area
- Used for research involving subsurface flows in CO2 sequestration, geothermal recovery, hydrogen geological storage, and oil recovery
IR Pyrometers – Micro-Epsilon High Performance Pyrometer
- Temperature range: (1) 50 ℃ to 400 ℃; and (2) 150 ℃ to 1000 ℃
- Spectral range: 2.3 μm (capable of penetrating quartz tube and measure the temperature of sample in it)
- Temperature resolution: 0.1 ℃
Ultrasonic Cleaner – Branson M8800
- 5.5 Gallon tank
Camera – Nikon D850 DSLR Camera
- 45.7MP FX-Format BSI CMOS Sensor
- EXPEED 5 Processor
- 4K UHD (3840 x 2160) Video Recording at 30 fps