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