HYPERBARIC EXPERIMENTAL CENTRE – TEST FACILITIES

We place unique test facilities at your disposal for :

• Validation of equipment under pressure
• Hydrostatic tests up to 400 bars
• Instrumentation and acquisition of data
• Measurement of volume variation under stress

The HYPERBARIC EXPERIMENTAL CENTRE (CEH) features exceptional test facilities. All its hypobaric and hyperbaric chambers can be used for the qualification of equipment and human intervention methods in hostile environments and can be placed at the service of medical and industrial research (nuclear, oil, chemicals, space, etc…). It is the only centre in the world equipped for hydrogen diving.

The diversity and size of the test facilities available at the CEH will meet the majority of your needs. For instance, a simulation of a 35-day Himalayan expedition (Everest-Comex 1997) was conducted under hypobaric conditions in the infrastructure of the “hydrosphere” chambers. A scientific study on increasing the physical performance of athletes by using pressurized oxygen started there in 2000.

The CEH has added on a new cellular biology laboratory especially designed for the study of the effects of pressure (hyperbaric and hypobaric) and gases (oxygen, nitrogen, helium and hydrogen) on cell culture models. This laboratory is equipped with a fully automated hypo/hyperbaric bio-incubator for hydrogen tests.

The scientific team of the CEH is internationally renowned.