Equipment
Table of contents
Solvent wet spinning plant
- Development of multifunctional and high-strength polyacrylonitrile precursor fibres
- Use of tailor-made renewable raw materials
- Innovative synthesis and modification of biopolymers and fossil educts
Bicomponent melt spinning plant
- Research and development of innovative high-performance and functional fibres
- Application-oriented research and processing of fibres on an industrial scale
- Technology development for the production of tailor-made melt spun fibres
- Modelling and Simulation of Biko Melt Spinning Processes
- Development and construction of the plant technology for the Biko melt spinning plant
Stabilisation line
- oxidative pretreatment in four heating zones between 200°C and 300°C
- Temperature control accuracy with +-1K per heater and +-5K over the heating zone
- separately adjustable dwell time and stretching per heating zone enables the generation of an individualised property profile
Carbonisation line
- Low temperature (up to 1050°C) and high temperature (up to 1500°C) furnaces for industrial and research process investigations
- Four individually adjustable temperature zones per oven with +-5 K/min
- Inert gas atmosphere with <1ppm oxygen content
Sizing module
- Individually applied coatings for thermoplastics & thermoset matrices
- Stress-varying sizing application for application-specific compacting of fibre bundles
- Drying at temperatures up to 275°C
Contact angle measuring system DSA 100
- Measurement of static contact angles
- Computer-aided image interpretation in accordance to various mathematical approaches
- Compact dimensions due to vertical camera positioning
- Measurement of contact angles of 2-dimensional substrates
- Determination of surface energies in accordance to accepted methods (DIN 55660)
- Measurement of contact angles of woven and non-woven textiles, coatings, ...
- Characterisation of surface properties (hydrophilicity, capillarity)
Single fibre tensiometer - K100SF
- High-resolution weighing system up to 0.1 μN
- Liquid bath with optional temperature control for up to 100 ml sample volume
- Flexible sample holder
- Measurement of contact angles of fibres and sample plates (tensiometry)
- Surface energy determination of liquids (wilhelmy-plate method)
- Determination of sorption rates
- Measurement of contact angles of fibres down to 5 μm diameter (e. g. carbon, glass, aramid, UHMWPE, ...)
- Characterisation of established or altered surface properties (hydrophilicity, capillarity)
NICOLET 6700 FT-IR - Infrared spectroscopy
- Fourier-transformation spectrometre
- Spectral measurement range 650 cm-1 - 4000 cm-1
- Spectral resolution up to 0.25 cm-1
- ATR-unit (attenuated total reflection) for measuring solid samples
- Varying pressing geometries for plane, powdery or very hard materials
- Characterisation of coatings and formulations
- Identification of fibres and associated materials or contaminations
Plasma torch - Relyon plasma generator PG-31
- 700 W - 1000 W
- Various nozzle geometries
- 40 kHz - 65 kHz
- Operating with air and carbon dioxide
- Feeding with precursor
- Single yarn transport device
- PC- controlling and logging via CANBus
- Functionalisation of carbon fibres and other technical high-performance fibres
- Development of material independent joining of textiles
DCN
Moreover, state-of-the-art nanoanalytical equipment is available at one of TUD´s central facilities called Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis (DCN), including transmission electron microscopes, X-ray microscropes, and acoustic atomic force microscopes.
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