Tests and Equipment

Sample preparation room

  • Crushers
  • Ball mill (2)
  • Ring Mill (2)
  • RFM Preparation (3)
  • Hard-Grove mill
  • Pellet press (FRX)


Standard Chemical Testing Room

  • Photometer (UV-VIS) (1)
  • Automatic titrator (1)
  • Ovens and furnaces (2)
  • Tools for complexometric and gravimetric analysis (3)
  • Instruments used for potentiometry
  • Tests within the EN 196 series
  • Carbon and water (RC 612)


Instrumental analysis room

  • Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
  • Atomic absorption
  • TOC and TIC
  • Sulphides
  • Isothermal Conduction Calorimetry (EN 196-11)
  • Optical microscopy
  • FTIR

  • X-Ray: major elements, heavy metals, semi-quantitative analysis (solids and liquids
  • XRD: qualitative and quantitative analysis (Rietveld)


Fuel room

  • Fuels (PCS and PCI)
  • Fuels - elemental analysis (CHNS)
  • Mercury (AMA 254)

(*) Common and alternative solid and liquid fuels are analysed.


Mechanical Testing Rooms (Cement and Mortars)

  • Mechanical resistance (EN 196-1)
  • Setting times and soundness (EN 196-3)
  • Mortars and Hydraulic lime
  • Cement mixtures


Mechanical testing rooms (Concrete)

  • Mechanical resistance (EN 12390-3)
  • Testing fresh concrete (EN 12350)

  • Durability: Diffusion of chloride ion; Water Penetration (EN 12390-8), and Oxygen Permeability


Aggregate and Physical testing Room

  • Volume and Blaine – Cements (EN 196-6)

  • Sieving (Alpine)

  • Laser Granulometry

  • Granulometric curves – Aggregates (EN 933-1)

  • Volume – Aggregates (EN 1097-6)

  • Los Angeles Wear, Micro-Deval

  • Sand equivalent (EN 933-8)

  • Potential presence of humus – (EN 1744-1, Section 15.1)

  • Evaluation of fines via Methylene blue Test (EN 933-9)

Testing and equipment

  • Granulometric Curves
  • Volumes
  • Wear from Los Angeles, Micro-Deval, Sand Equivalent, etc.
  • Durability: Chloride diffusion; water and oxygen penetration