Non-Standard Laboratory Scale Technology Evaluation

Southern Research maintains advanced laboratory-, bench-, and pilot-scale facilities that provide the capabilities needed to perform fundamental and applied research as well as demonstrations of virtually any power-system or related cleanup technology. These facilities and associated monitors, measurement devices, and instruments - combined with the analytical chemistry laboratories at Southern Research - provide the ideal setting for handling non-standard analyses, materials, and concepts.

Our comprehensive capabilities include:

• Determining the rates of reaction of gas-gas, gas-solid, and gas-liquid reactions, at given temperatures and pressures and under specific (including atypical) gas compositions
• Obtaining quantitative measurements of reaction-product compositions and associated physical phenomena
• Determining the condensation temperature of particular species in a complicated gas mixture (with or without reactions occurring)
• Determining the complete composition (including trace metals, hydrocarbons, aromatics, halide content, and tars) of exotic solid samples that may be difficult for standard laboratories to handle
• Complete physical characterization (including density, porosity, heat capacity, meso- and micro-pore surface area, pore-size distribution, heating value, and fly ash resistivity and Foam Index) of exotic or small-volume samples