Our varied Research Centers :
Lab-Tools is a Micro/SME spin-off from the University of Kent Physics department, but has now moved the NMR research and development laboratory to a new purpose designed facility near Ramsgate, in Kent.
Dr. Beau Webber
Lab Director
Director Dr. Beau Webber has held has held positions at the University of Kent, honorary and otherwise, for many years, and has held research fellow positions at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, honorary and otherwise. He has an extensive publication record in the fields of nano-metrology and the properties of liquids, ices and gas-hydrates in pores and at interfaces :
www.lab-tools.com/publications/Webber_JBW.html
Grants :Lab-Tools has won a 1.188 million Euro EU FP7 grant, in conjunction with Agricultural Requisites And Mechanizations Limited, Lightmain Company Limited, Oxyguard International AS, Technosam SRL, The Nottingham Trent University and Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya.This project "Autonomous Reed Bed Installations (ARBI)" will enable the consortium to develop ecologically sound and sustainable modular reed-bed installations for purifying waste-water. Multiple nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) installations, buried in the reed-beds, will be used to monitor their life-cycle, so that corrective action can be taken to prevent clogging and extend their life.
Director Dr. Beau Webber has completed an academic project using Lab-Tools' capabilities, together with the Centre for Gas Hydrates Research at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, for three years, to a value of £285,731. : EPSRC: EP/D052556/1 : "Capillary controls on gas hydrate growth and dissociation in synthetic and natural porous media: PVT, NMR, Neutron Diffraction and SANS". Final Grant Report