Our Facilities

Thermochem maintains two analytical laboratories (USA and Indonesia) where samples from around the world are shipped for analysis. Both facilities provide a base for field testing activities, with storage of test equipment, instrumentation, safety gear, and spare parts. These facilities also maintain on-site temperature, pressure and flow calibration instrumentation.

The USA facility includes manufacturing and assembly capabilities for delicate instrumentation and electronics. Mass flow controllers for gas, steam and liquid are used for primary flow calibration and testing of field equipment and on-line monitors. A steam generator facility is also maintained to provide saturated and superheated steam for calibration and testing. Large quantities of liquid nitrogen are stored on-site in bulk containers, as well as numerous primary standard calibration gases. Precision machining and welding is performed off-site at local high-tech manufacturing companies in the Silicon Valley area. All design and drafting is by on-site CAD, and the drawing files are sent electronically to the local manufacturers. Many components are made by automated machines that read these CAD files directly.

 

Laboratory and Field Equipment

Thermochem laboratories (USA and Indonesia) maintain the following specialized equipment: Laboratory Analysis Instrumentation

  • Varian Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
  • Varian Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
  • HACH Spectrophotometer
  • FIAlab Flow Injection Analysis System
  • Total Inorganic Carbon NDIR Flow Injection Analysis System
  • Waters 1525/717 HPLC with Gradient Pump and Autosampler
  • Waters 2475 Variable Wavelength Fluorescence Detector
  • Alcott 718 HPLC Autosampler
  • Dionex 4500; HPLC with Gradient Pump Module
  • Dionex Pulsed Electrochemical Detector, series 4500i
  • Dionex Variable Wavelength UV/Vis Detector, series 4500i
  • Dionex ASM-3 Autosampler
  • Dionex AI-450 Chromatography Data Stations
  • Hitachi F-2000 Spectrofluorometer 1 cm discrete sample cell, flow analysis cell
  • Oasis HLB 6CC LP extraction station with cartridges
  • Dionex Omni Pac PAX-100 ion-exchange column for FBA analysis
  • Waters BetaBasic C-18 HPLC column, BetaBasic C-18 guard column for NSA analysis
  • Hewlett Packard 5890 Gas Chromatographs
  • Flame Ionization Detectors
  • Thermal Conductivity Detectors
  • Hewlett Packard Electron Capture Detector
  • O-I 4420 Electrolytic Conductivity Detector
  • HNU PI-52 Photoionization Detector
  • Tekmar 3100 Purge and Trap Concentrator

Field Instrumentation, Tracer Injection and Sampling Equipment

  • Handheld Fluorometers
  • On-line Fluorometers
  • Custom Portable Field GC with Electron Capture Detector
  • MicroMod MFC Gas Mass Flow Controller
  • MicroMod LDS Liquid Tracer Delivery System
  • High-Volume Liquid Tracer Injection Skid, 1200 liter tank, 50 lpm pump
  • High-Pressure Gas Tracer Delivery Units, Liquefied-gas pumps, 120 bar
  • High-Pressure Liquid Tracer Delivery Units, 100 bar, 1 lpm pump
  • Two-Phase Sampling Separators, Condensers, Coolers per ASTM E-1675
  • Retractable Traversing Isokinetic Sampling Probes
  • NIST-traceable Pressure and Temperature Instrumentation
  • NIST-traceable Dry Gas Flow Calibrators and Volume Meters