Facilites
In addition to the comprehensive technical and IT facilities of The Robert Gordon University adn the School of Engineering, the centre has a wide range of analytical, computational and marine survey facilities.
Computational
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council recently provided funding for 10 state of the art 3.2GHz Intel desktops to facilite the work of the researchers within the group. This is in addition to two high end Athlon processor PCs, and the School of Engineering's Linnux laboratory.
The university has licenses for many of the state-of-the-art packages such as Fluent, Solid Works, ProE, and Matlab
Software
- Fluent
- Ansys
- Solid Works
- Microsoft Office 2003
- Speciality software
Marine Survey and Modlling
- Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
- Sea Snail support Structure
- Slice of Ocean Test facility (wave tank)
- Tidal current tank
Analytical Equipment
- Water's Alliance 2695 HPLC with 2996 diode array and a 2475 Multi Wavelength Fluorescence Detector
- Agilent 5975 GC-MS featuring a unique inert source
- Perkin Elmer LS55 Fluoresence Spectrophotometer
- Perkin Elmer Lambda 950 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu: TOC-V CPH with an ASI-V SA autosampler
- Optical light mircoscopes
- 450nm, 472nm and 488nm solid state lasers
- Fritsch Planetary Mill - Pulverisette 7 pulveriser
- Carbolite RHF 4/8 High Temperature Chamber glass annealing furnace
- Edinburgh Instruments FLS920P Spectrometer
- Endecotts Sonic Sifter
