Facilities

CACT has a wide range of equipment and facilities to cover virtually all areas of thermal spray coatings, right from deposition of the coating to its testing and characterization. Also, CACT has been a research leader in the fields related to surface tension phenomena, droplet impact, and liquid spray and atomization. Several equipment, experimental setups, and facilities are available for these purposes. We are also actively conducting research in plasma sciences, plasma chemistry, and ICP-OES/MS technolgies. The centre also offers a unique combination of strong computing facilities to perform various 2D and 3D computer simulations based on complex numerical models.

Thermal Spraying

The centre has a wide range of thermal spraying equipment.

Testing and Characterization

The centre also features a variety of equipment for coating characterization and testing.

Sample Preparation and Manufacturing

Equipment for precision cutting, polishing, pressing, and 3D printing

Droplet Laboratory

Equipment to study droplet impact, liquid spray and atomization, surface tension phenomena and contact angle, and droplet size distribution

Inductively Coupled Plasma

ICP optical emission spectroscopy, Plasma diagnostics and characterization

Computer Cluster

High-performance computer cluster for complex 3D computer simulations of thermal spray processes, coating formation, surface tension phenomena, DC or RF plasma, etc.