We support all phases in the life cycle of your product or process with our versatile array of experimental equipment and our experienced team of specialists. We offer advice before starting a project, identify key parameters and suitable experimental techniques, discuss polymer physical and reaction engineering problems, select the appropriate modeling environment and develop models that accurately reflect your process. Methods:

• ATR-FTIR spectroscopy for temperatures from -40 °C to 250 °C and pressures up to 250 bar;
• Raman spectroscopy (excitation 633 nm and 785 nm);
• combined heat balance/heat compensation calorimeter (isothermal operation for heat production rates up to 1 kW, isoperibolic/polytropic or adiabatic); temperatures from -110 °C to 300 °C; pressures up to 50 bar;
• combined heat balance/heat compensation calorimetry coupled with online ATR-FTIR or Raman spectroscopy;
• stopped-flow instruments with ATR-FTIR or UV spectroscopy for gas-phase and liquid-phase experiments; resolution in the millisecond range;
• special apparatus for pressures up to 250 bar and temperatures up to 350 °C;
• new and efficient methods for determining transfer coefficients and copolymerization parameters;
• HPLC, gradient HPLC (RI, UV and light scattering detectors);
• GPC (RI and UV detectors);
• GC, GC-MS, headspace GC;
• other analytical methods available from Bayer Industry Services (GPC-HPLC, GPC-MALLS, GPC-VISC, tFFF, various MS techniques, NMR, ultracentrifuge, AFM, ...).

Software:

• gPROMS^®;
• Aspen Custom Modeler^®;
• PREDICI^®;
• Speed-up^® ;
• our own Windows- or Unix-based programs (Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations).