Description: The lab-scale high pressure equipment used to process materials with compressed fluids (i.e. CO2, ferons)
Technical Specifications: Lab-scale high pressure systems, based on a 50mL, 100 and a 300mL stirred high pressure autoclaves equipped with pumps for the supply of compressed fluids and liquid solutions, respectively. Both plants could also optionally be equipped with several filters, manometers, thermocouples and back pressure regulators. The maximum operative pressure is 23MPa and the maximum operative temperature is 200ºC.
The 300mL system is also equipped with a mass flow meter, and a data acquisition system.
The plants have been designed for micro- and nanostructuring molecular and soft materials.
Applications: Micro- and nanoparticulate single compounds with high supramolecular homogeneity (i.e. pure polymorphic phases, materials with single polymer folding, etc..)
Particulate polymeric matrix uniformly loaded with active compounds (therapeutics, cosmetic ingredients, catalyst, pigments and dyes, etc..)
Dispersed systems (suspensions, liposomes, emulsions, vesicles,) with narrow particle size distribution and high morphological homogeneity.
Porous materials, either crystalline or amorphous, with defined porosity and porous size.