— One high-vacuum reactor/TPD system with a GC-mass spectrometer
— Four fixed-bed reactor systems with gas chromatographs and an additional mass spectrometer (One of the reactors is an Autoclave Engineers high pressure system capable of operating up to 100 bar)
— Two high-pressure Parr Instruments batch reactors
— A research grade BioRad FTS-60A FT-IR spectrometer with a transmission sample cell and an ATR cell for in situ studies
— A Varian UV-vis spectrometer with integrating sphere
— A laser Raman spectrometer
— Four x-ray absorption cells for in situ studies
— A Micromeritics ASAP 2020 computer-controlled gas adsorption system
— A TA Instruments thermal gravimetric analyzer (TGA)
— A heat flow microcalorimeter with attached gas manifold
— A Thermo Separations Products HPLC Autosampler equipped with a Waters R-403 refractive index detector
The lab also has multiple personal computers and a Silicon Graphics O2 computer for molecular graphics. Three hoods, a vacuum line for chemical synthesis, a dry box and standard glassware are also part of the catalysis laboratory.
Other instruments such as a scanning electron microscope, a high resolution transmission electron microscope, an x-ray diffractometer, an ESCA machine, an ESR spectrometer and a solid-state NMR spectrometer are available in the Departments of Materials Science, Engineering Physics, and Chemistry at UVa.
 Bill is using the FT-IR spectrometer |
 Junhui is using the laser Raman spectrometer |
 Stacey is using the UV-vis spectrometer |
 Jason is using isotopic transient analysis to study CO oxidation over gold catalysts |
 Dan is using our high pressure reactor to explore solid bases for use in biodiesel synthesis. |
 Jerry is using this fixed-bed reactor system to study aldol condensation of propionic acid with formaldehyde to form methacrylic acid using alkali modified zeolite catalysts. |
 Erin and Jerry also use the GC-mass spectrometer to analyze their products. |
 Erin uses one of the batch reactors to study the conversion of carbohydrates over supported Ru catalysts. |
Kim is at the TGA, ready to examine the effect of thermal treatments on her catalysts. |
 Kim is ready to use the Microcalorimeter to measure the adsorption energies on her catalysts. |
Surbhi is using the GC to analyze hydrolytic kinetic resolution products. |
Yuanzhou is using the GC to analyze products from base catalysis reactions. |
Bill is using the HPLC to analyze products from the oxidation of glycerol over supported gold catalysts. |
Erin is using a Micromeritics ASAP 2020 to determine the pore volume and surface area of supported catalysts. |
