Introduction

CEMITEC is a Multidisciplinary Technological Centre whose mission is to help improve the competitiveness of companies via the development of R&D projects, technological services and other innovation promoting activities.

It is specialised in four disciplines, namely: Electronics, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, Metallic Materials and Polymeric Materials.

The knowledge of these four disciplines is realised in ten products:
� Development of Consumer and Industrial Electronic Product
� Developments of ECUs for Control / Management of Automotive Components
� EMC Testing and Advice
� Development of Thermal Fluid for Hydraulic components
� Development of Industrial Inkjet Technology Applications
� Development and Characterisation of Biodiesel
� Technological Assistance in Metallic Materials
� Technological Assistance in Polymeric Materials
� Strategic Watch Studies

Total staff: 61

Personnel engaged in R&D: 42

Outstanding facilities and infrastructures related to R&D:

FACILITIES FOR DEVELOPING ELECTRONIC PRODUCT
Functional design
- Hardware and software tools to develop different architectures, 8, 16 and 32 bits
- Diagram creation software tools
Virtual prototype
- Analogical and digital simulation: Pspice
- Power simulation: Saber, Power Tool Box (Simulink - Matlab)
- Control algorithm simulation: Dspace, Control Tool Box (Simulink - Matlab)
- Thermal simulation: Fluent
Functional prototype
- Design and manufacture of PCB (Orcad, Cadstar)
- Instruments (Labview)
- Approval tests and regulation (EMC Laboratory)
- Electronic product verification and adjustment instruments

ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY LABORATORY FACILITIES
- Semianechoic chamber (6.9 x 3.2 x 3.5 metres) for emission and immunity tests within the frequency range of 30 MHz to 18 GHz, at a test distance of 3 metres
- Rotary table, closed circuit TV and automated centre system EMCO 2090
- Radiated emission measurement Emi receiver
- Interference generator for current injection test
- Single-phase conducted emission test LISN
- Harmonic and Flicker emission test equipment
- Electrostatic discharge gun
- Conducted immunity test bench (bursts, shock waves, voltage dips and variations)
- Magnetic field antenna and generator

FACILITIES FOR MATERIALS
Polymeric
- Differential Sweep Calorimeter (DSC)
- Infrared spectroscope (FT-IR)
- Thermo-Gravimetric Analyser (TGA)
- Plasma Emission Spectrometer (ICP)
- Gas Chromatographs (GC) with head space
- Liquid Chromatographs (HPLC)
- UV-VIS Spectrometer
- Hardness testers: Shore and IRHD, Barcol
- HDT and VICAT temperature determination
- Xenon light photo-degradation chamber (Xenotest)
- Ultraviolet photo-degradation chamber
- Chambers: Climatic, saline mist, humidity-static and SO2
- Humidity measuring device by Karl Fisher
- Rotary Rheometer
- Fluidity Index Measuring Device
- Universal test machine (10 KN)
- Ubelhode Viscosimeter
- Impact pendulum
- Colour spectrophotometer
- Material combustibility equipment
- Compression moulding press
- Laboratory processing unit with internal mixer, single-spindle extruder and film collection tower
- Taber abrasimeter

Metal
- Universal test machines
- Dynamic test machine
- HRC hardness tester
-Vickers hardness tester
- Brinell hardness tester
- Cupping machine
- Instrumented pendulum
- Micro-hardness tester
- Creep machine
- Laser extensometer
- Spark emission spectrometer
- C.S. Leco Analyser
- Metallographic preparation equipment
- Charpy pendulum
- Portable microscope
- Metallographic microscopes
- Macrographic equipment
- Sweep electronic microscope (SEM)
- X-RAY micro-sensor
- Image analyser
- Ultra-micro-hardness tester
- Thickness measuring devices
- Crack measurement
- Ferritometer
- Tensile test oven
- Extensometer
- Creep test machine
- Equipment for corrosion analysis by voltometry and impedance
- Equipment for field metallographic analysis
- Tribometer

Biodiesel
- Infrared spectroscope (FT-IR)
- Plasma emission spectrometer (ICP)
- Gas chromatographs (GC) with head space
- UV-VIS spectrometer
- Humidity measuring device by Karl Fisher
- Ubelhode Viscosimeter
- Oxidation stability equipment
- Carbonous residue equipment
- Distillation equipment
- Sulphur analyser in organic liquid samples

FACILITIES FOR FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMAL ENGINEERING
- Independent data recording system and data processing software.
- Miscellaneous instrumentation: measuring probes
- Measuring probes: Temperature, humidity pressure, speed and remote probes
- Drawing, pre-process and calculation software: Gambit, Fluent, Femlab and Star-CD
- Thermographic chamber
- Air amplifier
- Surface tension measuring device: Du Noüy rings
- Drying tunnel
- Test bench for the determination of head losses

Research lines (technological offer):

Research and services technological offer for companies

Further information: http://www.plantecnologico.com/es/servicios/centros/302.php