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Selected Facilities and Equipment at BFI |
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- 2D surface measuring system
- 3D surface measuring system
- 3MA residual stress gauge, for the non-destructive measurement of residual stresses in com-ponents
- 7-axle roller straightener for girder sections, with variable spacing and hydraulic axle support
- Adsorber for water treatment
- Apparatus for the simulation of fluid (molten metal) erosion
- Apparatus for the simulation of hydroabrasive wear
- Apparatus for the simulation of cavitation erosion
- Apparatus for the simulation of solid-particle erosion
- Apparatus (3) for the simulation of abrasive wear, sliding wear
- Service laboratory (for preparatory crushing, agglomeration, separation, combination)
- EUROPA strip inspection system
- Contactless mobile and stationary torque measuring systems
- Bio- and bio-membrane reactors for process water treatment (aerobic, anaerobic)
- Experimental burner station (up to 3 MW) with in-plant combustion gas supply system and combustion media preheating system (air up to 1100 °C, gas up to 500 °C)
- Combustion chamber with off-gas conditioning system
- Chemical, water and membrane service laboratory (with apparatus for ultrafiltration, nanofiltra-tion, reverse osmosis, diffusion dialysis, electrodialysis)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) computing programme for numerical flow simulation
- FIDUS wire inspection system
- DSP development system
- Electrolysis equipment
- Ellipsometer for the optical measurement of thin surface films (e.g. oil)
- Extraction equipment (10 to 200 l/h)
- Fluid flow simulation system for complex gas and liquid networks
- FPGA development system
- Experimental gas separation apparatus (mobile)
- Hardness testing apparatus
- High-performance workstation network (also parallel computing)
- Innovation centre for resource-conserving cycle completion (energy, water, secondary re-sources) with experimental areas for metal production, metalworking and process simulation
- Laboratories for gas, liquid and solids analysis
(e.g. GC, HPLC, IC, FT-IR, XRFA, MS, AAS, AES, COD, TOC, HC, BSB)
- Laboratory furnaces, multifunctional, up to 1750 °C
- Laser-assisted opto-electronic flow measurement equipment (LDA,PDA, PIV)
- Laser measuring bench for determining the flatness of strip specimens up to 2 m
- Laser vibrometer for contactless vibration analysis
- Mass spectrometer/ FT-IR spectrometer for process off-gas analysis
- Measuring and sampling apparatus for ecologically relevant pollutant emissions (e.g. dust, di-oxin, heavy metals, VOC, halogens, CHC, CFC, SO2, NOx)
- Data storage unit with evaporative coolers
- Metallography microscope
- Micro-controller development system
- Microscope with digital camera
- Mobile apparatus for waste water treatment and recovery of secondary resources (adsorption, electrolysis, solvent extraction)
- Mobile injection equipment for solid matter (low-/high density pneumatic conveying)
- Mobile chamber filter press
- Mobile laboratories for water, gas, heat and energy analyses
- Mobile measuring stations for field measurements at industrial furnaces and emission meas-urements
- Mobile acid treatment systems (nanofiltration/reverse osmosis)
- Mobile experimental apparatus for catalysts
- Mobile adsorber for process off-gas cleaning
- Mobile instrument laboratory for the collection of production and plant data
- Model apparatus for process line and reactor experiments
- Programmable drying oven
- Rayleigh wave inspection system
- Computing programme for the simulation of flow and pressure conditions in gas and air piping networks
- Melting furnace, up to 1700 °C
- Sensor system for continuous measurement in melts
- Bridle with tension-levelling cartridge, shapemeter and coiling pressure gauge for strips up to 400 mm in width
- Telemetry systems
- Experimental thermal regenerator system (heat accumulator) up to 1200 °C
- Thermal imaging system
- Thermobalance
- TopPlan test area for topometric measurement of surfaces
- Models for melt flow testing
- Test stand for the optical measurement of object geometries (e.g. steel sections) up to around 1.50 m in length
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