TDA is located just about 10 miles west of
Denver. We occupy two facilities with a total area of 50,000 ft2;
our original laboratory and corporate offices in Wheat Ridge, and our new
Table Mountain facility three miles to the west in Golden.
TDA's
Wheat Ridge Facility totals 22,500-ft2, including offices, a
5,000 ft2 wet chemical laboratory, 4,000 ft2 of general
dry laboratories, and a 3,500 ft2 high bay experimental facility.
The laboratories include seven fume hoods, facilities for controlled atmosphere
work, extensive equipment for the synthesis and processing of catalysts, sorbents,
ceramics and carbons, a wide variety of analytical instruments including a time-of-flight
mass spectrometer, and well-equipped mechanical and electrical shops for the
construction and modification of our equipment.
The
new Table Mountain Facility (located three miles straight west of our
Wheat Ridge buildings) totals 27,000 ft2, including offices, 10,000
ft2 of wet chemical laboratories with 27 fume hoods, 5,000 ft2
of dry labs, and 2,500 ft2 of high bay labs. The Golden facility
houses our polymer synthesis and processing laboratories and some of our catalytic
process development laboratories.
TDA’s facilities house equipment for the
synthesis inorganic materials
(sorbents, catalysts, ceramics and carbons), organics and polymers. We have
extensive analytical and materials characterization equipment, as well as a
wide variety of automated equipment for the testing of catalysts and
sorbents. Finally, we have the mechanical and electronics facilities needed
to build up and support our experiments.
Synthesis / Materials Processing
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4 liter stainless steel jacketed reactor
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20 liter stainless steel jacketed reactor
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50 liter Schott glass reactor
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50 gal Pfaudler glass lined reactor
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Vulcan 3-550 Box Furnace (5)
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Thermolyne 4800 box Furnace
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VWR 1330F Box Furnace
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Two Lindberg tube furnaces
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Deltech furnace (air, 1700 deg.
C)
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Mellen Vacuum furnace
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Webb graphite vacuum/argon furnace (2000 C)
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Applied Test Systems Rotary Kiln (18 x 6 in.)
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Denver Glass Machinery Custom Rotary Kiln (8 ft long, 8
in diameter)
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California pellet mill
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Littleford Plow mixer (3.5 cubic foot)
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Yamato Pulvis Model GB-21 spray driers (2)
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Fisher 550 Sonic Dismembrator
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Clay Adams Safeguard Centrifuge
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Mistler laboratory tape caster (thin film production)
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American Scientific Products Top Loading Balance
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AND FR-300 MKII Analytical Balance
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Denver Instrument M220 Analytical Balance
Chemical Instrumentation
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Nicolet Magna 550 FTIR
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Nicolet Avatar 360 FT-IR
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Perkin Elmer Lambda 19 UV/VIS/NIR
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HP 8452A UV-VIS spectrophotometer
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Amray 1200 scanning electron microscope (SEM) with an
x-ray dispersive (EDX) attachment for elemental analysis
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Technics Hummer V gold coater
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Phillips XRD (x-ray diffractometer) for crystal structure
analysis
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Leco EC-12 carbon determinator
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Shimadzu DSC-50 differential scanning calorimeter
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Shimadzu TGA-50 thermogravimetric analyzers (2)
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Princeton Applied Research Model 273A Potentiostat/Galvanostat
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Gamry electrochemical analyzer
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Waters HPLC liquid chromatography system
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Waters HPLC - GPC liquid chromatography system
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Malvern Mastersize laser scattering particle size
analyzer
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With Small Volume Sample Presentation Unit and Dry Powder
Feeder
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Micromeretics Gemini automated surface area and pore size
analyzer
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Micromeritics Autopore II 9220 mercury porosimeter
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Buehler Ecomet 3 Grinder Polisher
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Bausch and Lomb Stereo Microscopes (2)
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Olympus B201 optical microscope
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Instron 4201 tensile and compression tester,
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MecMesin M1000E crush tester
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Fluidized bed attrition tester
Process Instrumentation
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Thermo Environmental Instruments Model 10C HCl analyzer
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Thermo Environmental Instruments Model 10S NO, NO2,
NOX Analyzer
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Thermo Environmental Instruments Model 43C SO2
Analyzer
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Thermo Environmental Instruments Model 42C NO, NO2,
NOX Analyzer
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California Analytical Instruments CO, CO2, CH4
IR Analyzer
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California Analytical Instruments Model 300 FID
Hydrocarbon Analyzer
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California Analytical Instruments Model 200 Co, CH4
Analyzer
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mda Scientific Arsenic Analyzer
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mda Scientific Arsenic Analyzer
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Servomex 1440 Paramagnetic O2 Analyzer
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Jerome 431-X Mercury Vapor Analyzer
Special Purpose Equipment
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Parr 1455 Solution Calorimeter
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Combustion synthesis fullerene production reactor
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Carbon-arc reactor for producing and sublimating
fullerenes and metallofullerenes
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Laser desorption/laser ionization linear/reflectron
time-of-flight mass spectrometer
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SRI gas chromatographs with a wide variety of detectors:
(West Bldgs 15)
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Hewlett Packard 5890 GC - 5991 MS
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Thermal-Vacuum test chamber
Electrical and Mechanical Shop Equipment
- Sharp digital vertical milling machine,
- JET Equipment GH-1640ZX Precision Digital Control Lathe
- Datsun Forklift
- Dayton Drill Press
- EconOLine Bead Blaster
- Wilton 135 in. Cutoff Saw
- Automated welding equipment
- Metal cutting and forming equipment.
- TEKScope 100 MHz Digital Oscilloscope
- LeCroy WaveRunner LT262 350 MHz - 1GS per sec Digital Oscilloscope
- Wavetek 50 MHz Pulse - Function Generator