Trans Ionics Corporation's facilities include a new 800 square foot laboratory containing a 6' walk-in hood and a 4' prep hood with flammable storage below. The lab is equipped with the following:
Thermolyne high temperature (1700 °C) programmable furnace
Sorensen Model DSC600-1.7EM1 high voltage DC power supply
Upright, explosion-proof freezer
Carver Model 1350C hydraulic press with 13 mm wafer die
Mettler top loading balance capable of weighing to 5100 gm
Mettler analytical balance
General purpose hot air oven
Several magnetic stirrer/hotplates
Jar mill with 1 quart ceramic jar and zirconia grinding media
Barnstead deionized water system
Autoclave Engineers 300 cc stirred autoclave with Hastelloy C body, Control Tower and Control Tower software.
Cylinder gases (nitrogen, hydrogen and argon)
Trans Ionics' facility is located within a 72,000 square foot, one-story, multi- tenant office and services center on an attractive forested 6.3 acre site in The Woodlands Metro Center business park. The four-building, campus-type development fronts Timberloch Place, a four-lane divided roadway that connects directly to Interstate Highway 45 approximately one mile to the east. It is easily accessible from George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which is 16 miles to the south.
Located just north of Houston, Texas, which many consider the "Oil and Gas Capital of the World," and which is the home of numerous multi-national petroleum companies, Trans Ionics is well positioned to market its energy- related technology. In addition, to the oil industry, however, Houston is also home to major natural gas and electricity suppliers such as Reliant Electric, which realizes that natural gas will play a major role as a fuel for solid oxide fuel cells.
