Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) has access to a full complement of research infrastructure at several of the university academic departments including:

Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering through the participating research group ‘Thermodynamics in materials engineering (B. Blanpain, P.T. Jones)’

Analytical and characterization
- ICP-AES, AAS, XRF, EPMA-EDS/WDS
- 2 SEMs, E-SEM, TEM, XRD (hot stage), FIB (2007), FEG-EPMA (2011)
Processing equipment
- Tube furnaces (vertical & horizontal), vacuum induction furnace with full atmosphere & Temperature control
- Melt spinning device
- Premelting furnace, vacuum arc furnace, hybrid μ-wave furnace
- CSLM with high-T addition device, mass spectrometer
Software
- ThermoCalc, FactSage, Dictra, HSC, Pandat, automatic inclusion analysis
- Codes for process simulation
For a complete list see http://sirius.mtm.kuleuven.be/Research/Equipment/index.html

Department of Chemical Engineering through the participation of the Consortium ‘SMaRT-Pro²’ (T. Van Gerven) and Leuven Materials Research Center (K. Van Acker)

Leaching and immobilisation equipment
- Extraction test (DIN38414, EN12457), Columntest (NEN 7343), Diffusion test (NEN7345)
- Adsorption and (co-) precipitation, carbonation
Equipment for ultrasound & magnetic field processing and advanced separation & processing(UF, NF, RO, ED, AOP)
Analytical equipment
- ICP-MS, AAS, IC/HPLC, GC-MS/ECD/FID, FT-IR, UV, NMR
- Particle size distribution, porosity, specific surface area, TA X2i Texture Analyzer, Vicat apparatus
Hybrid geochemical-transport software packages
- PhreeqC, HP1, VisualMinteq

Department of Civil Engineering through the participation of the research group on Building Materials in the Consortium ‘SMaRT-Pro²’ (T. Van Gerven)

Material Testing Equipment and Software
- Dartectest bank device: compression
- Instron test bank device: compression and bending
- Shenck test bank device: compression-tension
- Triaxial-cell (rock-masonry-mortars)
- Panda -variable energy lightweight dynamic penetrometer(subsoil)
- Concrete Rheometer
- Thermal analysis (shared equipment with Geology)
- Mercury Intrusion apparatus (shared with other divisions)
- Carbonation reaction measuring set-up and apparatus
- Carbon dioxide diffusion measuring set-up and apparatus
Non-Destructive Test Methods
- Geo-electrical measurements
- Resisto-graph (wood)
- Acoustic Emission

Department of Geology through the participation of the Consortium ‘SMaRT-Pro²’ (T. Van Gerven) and Leuven Materials Research Center (K. Van Acker)

Mineralogical and image analysis
- Polarisation microscopy with image analysis
- Fluorescence microscopy
- X-ray diffractometry
- Electron microscopy with EDX-analysing equipment
Leaching set-up
- Leaching columns
- pH-stat
Chemical analytical equipment
- Atomic absorption spectrometry
- Laser ablation -inductively coupled plasma -mass spectrometry
- Ion chromatography
- Thermal analytical equipment

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