Laboratories / UQAT
Sample reception and preparation hall
This infrastructure offers equipment for fragmentation, quartering, homogenization, granulometric calibration (sieveing ), steaming, thermal treatment, chambers (wet cold), geophysical equipment and mineralurgical separation equipment (flotation, hydrocyclones, etc.).
Contact
- Marc Paquin, Chemist, 1-819-762-0971 #2469
Environmental characterization laboratories
This infrastructure is equipped with a variety of physical models at different scales (mini alteration cells, wet cells, gas reactivity cells, instrumented columns, instrumented experimental boxes, etc.).
Contact
- Mathieu Villeneuve, Chemist, 1-819-762-0971 #2475
Hydro-geotechnical characterization laboratories
The equipment comprised in this infrastructure enables the measurement of permeability, mercury porosimetry, consolidations, water retention curves and geomechanical testing (50-kN mechanical servo press, Triax confinement testing, direct shear testing, etc.).
Contact
- Yvan Poirier, Technician, 1-819-762-0971 #2567
Mineral characterization laboratories
This infrastructure’s equipment can be used to determine the physical properties of materials (density, laser granulometry, specific surface, thermal analyses, Zeta potential, etc.), their chemical properties (XRF, ICP-AES and ICP-MS, ion chromatography, infrared spectrometry, visible UV spectrophotometry, induction furnace, etc.), as well as their mineralogical properties (optical microscope, SEM-EDS, X-ray diffraction).
Contact
- Marc Paquin, Chemist, 1-819-762-0971 #2469
About us
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Département de génie civil et de génie des eaux
Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot
1065, avenue de la Médecine
Local 2928P
Québec (Québec)
G1V 0A6