Services
We offer you services in a wide variety of areas.
Chemical Consulting
We offer external reviewing and chemical consulting, both within the scope of contract research project or independently. Selected examples are given below:
- Preparation of surveys on state-of-the-art technologies by search in:
- Databases
- Patents
- followed by detailed analysis and composition of a summarizing report
- Journals and books
- Preparation of feasibility studies and external reviews based on:
- Summary of state-of-the-art technologies
- Market surveys
- evaluation of patents
- Patent analyses
- Experimental investigations in laboratory and pilot scale
- Estimation of raw material availability
- Physico-chemical calculations
- Mass and energy balances
- Comparison and evaluation of different technical concepts for realization
- Further services:
- Development of mass and energy balances
- Development of process flow sheets
- Optimization of selected process steps and operations as well as optimization of the overall process
- Research of physico-chemical data in databases and reference books
Analytical Services
We have a broad range of analytical methods and devices available at our facility. We use them not only within the scope of our contract research projects, but we also offer analytical work as independent service.
Do you have a special analytical task or need a strong partner for analyses of brines?
Please do not hesitate to contact us!
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The following analytical determinations and devices are available at our facility:
- Cation analyses using AAS and ICP-OES
- Anion analyses (in particular wet-chemical processes like titration vs. AgNO3 or gravimetric sulfate determination)
- Analyses using cuvette test systems (nitrate, nitrite, TOC, …)
- Particle size distribution using laser diffraction or sieving machine
- Characterization of thermal decomposition of organic and inorganic materials at temperatures up to 1500°C by means of DTA/TGA measurements
- Determination of compressive, bending and tensile strength
- Recording of UV/VIS spectra and photometric determinations
- Recording of fluorescence spectra
- Special titrimetric determinations (e.g. redox titration)
- Viscosity determinations of solutions and slurries
- Determination of turbidity
- Ultrasonic measurement
- 3D scans
- Various microscopy and photo devices
- Analytics of salts and salt solutions (including ion balance)
- Analyses of historical mortars and plasters
- Analyses of material from efflorescence
- Soil analyses
- Determination of refractive index, melting point and boiling point
- Test instruments for the characterization of construction materials, e.g. regarding adhesive tensile strength, air content, moisture, setting behavior, swelling, shrinkage
- Vapor pressure measurements of solutions
- Determination of salt solubilities
- Determination of moisture content
- Determination of swelling pressure
- Determination of porosity and permeability of soils and rocks (k value)
- Elution behavior of contaminants from soil, rock and artificial materials (e.g. backfill, waste rock, tailings) in accordance with DIN 38414-S4
- Freeze-thaw resistance
Training Courses
Are you working on a new subject and need more knowledge?
We offer special training courses in areas:
- Graphical presentation and quantitative analysis of salt-solution equilibriums (duration 3 days)
- The solid-liquid phase equilibriums of the quinary system of the oceanic salts (duration 4 days)
- CaLoSiL® application symposium – physicochemical basics, applicability and instructions for usage of CaLoSiL® products
- The use of phase diagrams to describe crystallization and dissolution processes during Sylvinite and Carnallite processing (An introduction to the fundamentals of the system NaCl-KCl-MgCl2-H2O), (duration 2 days)
- Introduction to Chemical Technology
- Chemistry for restorers
All courses are also offered as in-house training.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment please contact us.
Shipment of dangerous goods
Do you know the situation?
You are planning to ship material and it turns out to be a dangerous good?
We can help you!
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- Registration and dispatch of your dangerous goods with selected logistics service providers
- Classification of substances based on the manufacturers data
Dispatch by plane
- Packaging according to the directives IATA-DGR
- Labeling of packages
- Issuing of all necessary documents including Shipper’s Declaration
Dispatch by ship
- Packing according to the guidelines of the IMDG codes
- Labeling of packages
- Creating the IMO declaration
