RSML has a fully functional shared lab space within the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) and Center for Higher Education Building at the UI, Idaho Falls campus.
RSML owns the following equipment:
- A modular entrained flow catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP)
reactor for bioenergy (e.g., bio-oil and biochar) production
- An Industrial Sonomechanics LSP 500 with full-wave barbell horn and continuous
flow-through configuration for upgrading untreated bio-oil samples via ultrasonic cavitation
Computational Tools: The software available for students within the UI College of Engineering
includes SolidWorks, MATLAB, Simulink, LabVIEW, Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, etc.
Analytical Instruments: As a shared and fully functional lab, some of the instruments in the lab belongs to UofI, and
some of the equipment belongs to CAES and Idaho National Lab, whereas students from
all institutions use the equipment for their projects/courses.
- Horiba x-ray analytical microscope xgt-7200
- Thermo Scientific LINDBERG/BLUE M Moldatherm box furnaces
- Thermo Scientific Spectronic 200 spectrophotometer
- Dionex ICS-2100 Ion chromatograph with conductivity and variable wavelength detector
- Shimadzu GC-2010s gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS)
- Shimadzu GC-2010 gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector and thermal
conductivity detector (GC/FID/TCD)
- ICAP 6500 ICP-OES (inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer)
- ICAP QC ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer)
- Agilent 7900 (inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometer) with UHMI
- Shimadzu Total Organic Analyzer/Total Nitrogen Analyzer (TOC/TN) TOC-VCSH
Manufacturing Facilities: RSML has access to the following facilities at the Manufacturing and
Robotics Teaching Laboratory (MRTL) at the College of Eastern Idaho (CEI):
- FDM 3D printer (Stratasys)
- CNC router (Forest Scientific)
- Laser engraver (Trotec Laser)
- Computer numerical control (CNC) Milling Machine (Bridgeport)
- Haas CNC Turning Machine
- Haas CNC Milling Machine
RSML has access to the following multi-user U 0f I equipment:
- Mass-spectrometry facility
- LC-MS-MS (Micromass triple mass spectrometer,0- 4000 Da; ESI and APCI ionization modes)
- Waters QTof-Premier MS-MS system with APCI/MALDI MS/MS platform for proteomics analysis.
- Bruker 300 and two 500 MHz NMR spectrometers
- OI Analytical Flow Solution 3000 Flow Injection Analyzer
- Machines for microtiter plate reading (fluorescence of transmitted light);
- Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (BioRad)
- Real-time PCR and High-throughput PCR (4 x 384 well blocks; MBS Thermocyclers, ThermoHybaid)
- Illumina Miniseq sequencer
- Highly controlled microtiter plate temperature incubation and shaking (HiGrow)
- Olympus and Zeiss Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopes
- Zeiss variable pressure field emission scanning electron microscope and a conventional SEM with EDS
capabilities
- Transmission electron microscope with EDS capabilities
- Siemens powder x-ray diffraction spectrometer
