Equipment

The EERC maintains a wide range of laboratory- and pilot-scale equipment for solid, liquid, and gaseous processing and characterization of natural and synthetic materials.

Fuel Preparation

• Biomass processing and handling
• Coal preparation

Combustion Systems

• Fluidized-bed combustors
• Combustion test facility
• Particulate test combustor/emission control simulator (dry and wet scrubbers)
• CO₂ capture test systems
• Full suite of air pollution control devices
• Slagging furnace system/high-temperature air furnace
• Slag formation simulator
• Conversion and environmental process simulator
• Drop-tube furnaces (atmospheric, optical)
• Simulated pilot-scale cooling tower

Gasification and Gas Cleanup Systems

• Gas processing and gas cleanup as related to the oil and gas industry
• transport reactor development unit (1-MW gasifier)
• Fluid-bed gasifier (high-pressure, 20 lb/hr)
• Continuous fluid-bed reactor (low-pressure, 4 lb/hr)
• Entrained-flow gasifier
• Fixed-bed gasifier
• Carbonizer (mild gasification)
• Small laboratory-scale fixed-bed gasifier reactor
• Fischer–Tropsch reactor skid
• Warm-gas cleanup train
• Large hot-gas filter vessel
• Bench-scale hot-gas filter vessel
• Sulfur reactor
• Hydrogen separation membrane
• Auxiliary systems for large testing equipment

Chemical- and Liquid-Processing Systems

• Small continuous reactor
• Large continuous reactor
• Continuous tubular reactor
• Batch autoclave reactor systems
• Bench-scale catalyst systems
• Pilot-scale Fischer–Tropsch reactor
• Hydrogen on demand (high-pressure liquid-reforming reactor)
• Distillation system
• Process chemistry screening reactors
• Bench-scale renewable ammonia plant

Environmental Assessment and Cleanup

• Anaerobic digestion systems evaluation
• Contaminant recovery
• Environmental field sampling (field energy testing systems)
• Multigram extraction system

Field Test Capabilities

• Slipstream fabric filter (for particulate control)
• Dry sorbent injection equipment (for mercury and acid gas control)
• Activated carbon
• Acid gas
• Selective catalytic reduction technology
• Mobile gasification and liquid fuel production
• Mobile analytical capabilities for oil and gas
• Slagging and fouling assessment
• Full-scale utility boiler ash and deposit sampling
• Full-scale mercury sampling and analysis