Gadgets & Toys
Our labs currently have the following instruments and experimental capabilities, and we are in the process of procuring additional items:
- Low, medium, and high temperature measurement equipment (t/c, rtd, thermometers)
- High temperature calibration
- High metal alloy materials
- High temperature thermal insulation
- Rooftop dish concentrator with a 2.45m diameter
- High flux, water cooled optical power meter
- Low medium and high temperature solar thermal testing equipment
- Sensitive FLIR IR/Visual cameras
- A nanoparticle tracking and analsys system - the Nanosight LM10
- Several complete data aquisition systems
- An Epi-fluorescence microscope and a micro-PIV system are also available
- Lastly, our labs have access and/or licences to several types of modelling software: CAD, CFD, Optical design and ray tracing, TRNSYS, Labview, FactSage, Matlab, etc.
