Carbon fibers laboratory
The main research directions
- laboratory studies to improve carbon fiber mechanical properties;
- laboratory studies to produce a porous carbon fiber for use in supercapacitors.
The used equipment
- fiber formation unit and spinning solution preparation unit with a nanomaterial addition possibility;
- drying furnace with a fiber controlled stretching possibility;
- oxidation furnace with a fiber controlled stretching or shrinkage possibility;
- carbonization furnace with a temperature up to 1000 °C;
- high-temperature carbonization furnace with a temperature up to 1450 °C;
- unit for graphitization in inert gas plasma;
- laboratory testing machine to study mechanical properties of Tinius Olsen h10k-t fiber.
The laboratory complex of PAN-fibers formation from a spinning solution with CNT addition and carbon fiber production consists of the following: