Facilities

PELM is located on the beautiful Gladstone Marina. It consists of 10 "cells" that provide laboratory space for researchers and a building for offices for research staff and students. Although several cells are currently occupied by the laboratories of PELM, it is possible to hire facilities for external research projects or as a site for incubation of high-tech start-up companies.

At present our facilities consist of an extensive fluids laboratory, an optical emission spectrometer for aluminium analysis, an X-ray diffraction facility, microscopy equipment for evaluating materials and corrosion testing equipment.

Industrial Materials Failure Analysis and Sustainability

JEOL JSM 6360LA scanning electron microscope & EDS

100kN Instron servohydraulic fatigue testing machine
Metallographic preparation and optical microscopy facilities
Vickers hardness and microhardness testing equipment
On-site metallographic equipment
Surface roughness testing equipment
PAR 273a potentiostat and Solartron 1260 FRA for corrosion testing
Nickel corrosion flow loop for corrosion testing in flowing Bayer liquor at temperatures up to 230C. Siemens D500 x-ray diffractometer.

Reliability and Asset Management

Industrial Process Engineering

TSI Particle Image Velocimetery System PIV 400
ARES - the Rheometric Scientific Rheometer
‘Mastersizer S' Particle Size Analyser
Quantachrome Ultrapycnometer 1000
Gas-Liquid Chromatograph with Mass-Spectral Detector
Flow Visualisation rig
Fluid flow models
Light-sheet laser device for flow visualisation
Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) facilities

Visit our research facilities pages for a detailed description of the equipment.