Equipment
CSE has extensive experience, expertise and the necessary facilities to test, develop and quantify combustion and flow systems. With well over a hundred years of combined experience in experimental combustion, heat transfer and fluid mechanics, CSE personnel have studied a multitude of different combustion, fire and flow systems. Flow properties, such as pressure, temperature, chemical composition, heat release rate and a host of other important variables can be characterized in our laboratories. NDIR CO and CO2 instruments

Laboratory Facilities

• Six (6) conditioned lab spaces for bench-scale experiments (approximately 600 sq. ft)
• Two laser / optical diagnostics laboratories (vibration-isolated tables etc.)
• Two indoor unconditioned lab spaces for larger scale experiments (approximately 3200 sq. ft.)
• Working agreements with outside laboratories / testing facilities for specialized /large-scale experiments
• Exhaust systems capable of venting fires up to 400 kW (larger heat release fires can be handled at nearby facility)
• Mock-up of two-room (each room is 8x 10) and corridor (3-ft wide) setting. Used for smoke detector / smoke travel studies
• High-Pressure Vessel (Bench-scale) - Pressures up to 20 atmospheres
• Some Machining capabilities on site (Mill, lathe).
  
  Flow Capabilities
• Air:
     1.25 lbs/sec (0.56 kg /s) at atmospheric pressure
     Limited flow rates at high pressure
• Fuel
  
  Instrumentation
• Gas Analyzers
     CO2 (NDIR)
     CO (NDIR)
     O2 (Paramagnetic)
     NOx (Chemiluminescence)
• FTIR
• Precision-Controlled Oven (e.g. self-heating experiments)
• Spectrometers
     0.5 meter path length with 2-D CCD Array
     7-channel Fiber-Coupled
• Light Sources
     Broadband Ultraviolet
     Acceleration Sensors
     Particle Concentration Sensors
        Mass Concentration
        Number Concentration Sensors
     Lasers
• ND*YAG (532 nm)
• He-Ne (633 and 3.39 µm)
• Mass / Volumetric Flow Rates
• Heat Flux
• Temperature
• Digital and High-speed Video