Facilities
Bio-Material & Technology Lab Facilities
1. Lab-scale Equipment
Equipment:
· Haak Twin-screw Extruder & Hot-Mixer
· Injection Molding Machine
· Desktop Hot Press
· Genesis Ground Hot Press
· Centrifuges
· Oil Extractor
· Hobart Stand Batch Mixer
· Extrusion Plastometer
· Freeze Dryers
· Cyclone Mill & Perten Mill
· Rain Simulation Chamber
· Environmental Chambers
· Band Saw
· High-temperature Furnaces
2. Testing Instruments
Instruments:
· Differential Scanning Calorimeter
· Dynamical Mechanical Analyzer
· Thermogravimetric Analyzer
· Malvern Rheometer
· Brookfield Rheometer
· Instron Universal Tester
· HPLC System
· Biologic LP System
· SDS-PAGE Device
· Desktop Centrifuge
· Particle Size Analyzer
· Optical Contact Angle Meter
· Water Activity Meter
· Water Purification System
· Chromatography refrigerator
3. Fermentation Instruments
Instruments
· 5-L Bioreactor
· Bench Top Reactor
· Hewlett Packard GC-MS
· Spectrophotometer
· Distillation System
· Fiber Analyzer
· French Press
· Incubator Shaker
· Laminar Flow Hood
· Water Bath Shaker
· Centrifuge
4. Pilot-scale Food Processing Facilities
Equipment:
· Autobag Sealer
· Buflovak Drum Drier
· Corn Treat Center Mixer/Caramelizer
· Dixie UVD Double Seamer/Canner
· Edlong Spary dryer
· Glenmills Disk Mill
· Hobart TS Wrapping Equipment
· Hobart Mixer
· IEC Programmable Centrifuge
· Kettle with Mixer (50 Gal.)
· Tabletop Steam Kettles (Groen, 10, 20 Qt)
· Pulper/finisher
· Retorter
· Hot Air Popper
· Simplex ASI Filler
· Straub 4E Disk Mill
· Thermal Jet Cooking System
· Transfer Pumping System
· Virtis Freeze dryer
· Kitchen Aid Mixer
· Waring Blender
5. Access to BIVAP Pilot-scale Processing Facilities
Equipment:
· Film Blower
· Wenger TX52 Twin-screw Extrusion System
· Wenger X20 Single-screw Extrusion System
· Wenger Pilot-scale Mixer
· Wenger 4800 Belt Drying System
· IMS Microwave Drying System
· Denver IR-200 Moisture Content Meter
· USC Rotary Drum Mixer
· Warehouse
