Equipment and Facilities
CIDS has an outstanding array of capabilities through acquisition of facilities to forward research. In addition, CIDS has access to numerous major research instruments through partnerships with other UTEP departments. An added benefit is that CIDS has access to the testing facilities that exist at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Desalination Plant.
Located in UTEP's Engineering building, CIDS has 1600+ square feet of functioning laboratory space. These laboratories are currently being utilized by graduate students researching arsenic removal, electrodialysis, and other desalination research. Capabilities include basic water analysis (e.g. pH, conductivity, turbidity, colorimetric methods), ion chromatography analysis, UV-vis spectrometry, ICP-OES, TOC, fume hoods, and others being developed.
CIDS has several pilot units available for desalination experiments. These are available for contract research or lease agreements. Mobile equipment ranges from 0.2-0.5 gallon per minute product water to 10-40 gallon per minute product water an include ultrafiltration, electrodialysis, and reverse osmosis technologies.
CIDS Water Treatment Process Testing Lab-1 - Electrodialysis
- Contaminant removal
- Salt and mineral recovery
- Point-of-use/Point-of-entry water treatment
- Total suspended solids and Total dissolve solids method equipment
CIDS Water Quality Analysis Lab - General water quality (pH, conductivity, turbidity, alkalinity)
- Colorimetetric methods
- Perkin Elmer Optima 7300DV ICP-OES
- Dionex ICS 2100 "Integral" Ion Chromatograph
- Dionex ICS ICS1100 & ICS2100 Ion Chromatograph (anions and cations) with auto-sampler
- Agilent 8453 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
- Shimadzu Total Organic Carbon analyzer (TOC-VCSH)
- Agilent 7890A Series GC with autosampler
Physical Sciences Lab - Membrane distillation
- Coulter Counter MS4 particle counter
- CERROTM
- DI water system
- Bipolar membrane testing
- Hardness sensor development
CIDS Laboratory ED Systems- ED systems with two or four compartment designs with 0.2-0.5 m2 exposed area (per cell pair/quad)
- 1-2 gpm mobile ZDD system (NF/RO + EDM)
CIDS Pilot Equipment
- 15-gpm UF system
- (3) 20-gpm NF/RO systems
- 40-gpm ZDD system (NF/RO + EDM)
