Facilities and Equipment
Laboratories
The Environmental Chemistry Branch has a modern laboratory facility with dedicated spaces for sample preparation, inorganic and organic analyses. Steps to minimize background contamination and to protect sample integrity have been incorporated into the laboratory design.
Analytical Equipment
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) systems:
- 2 Thermo Trace Ultra GCs with ISQ MS
- Agilent 6890 GC coupled to a Waters Autospec magnetic sector high resolution MS
- Agilent 6890 GC with a 5973N mass selective detector
Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) systems:
- Waters Synapt G2-Si quadrupole time-of-flight MS (LC-QTOF-MS)
- Waters Xevo TQ-XS triple quadrupole MS
Other Analytical systems for Organic Analyses:
- 2 Agilent 6890 GCs with electron capture detectors (1 with dual-column analysis capability)
- 4 HPLC systems with UV and/or Fluorescence detectors (2 of which equipped with fraction collectors)
Analytical systems for Inorganic Analyses:
- Perkin Elmer NexIon 2000 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
- Dionex ICS-1100 Ion Chromatography (IC) system
- Shimadzu TOC-L Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) analyzer
- Direct mercury analyzer (DMA-80)
Preparative and Custom Processing Equipment:
- High and low pressure size exclusion chromatography (SEC)
- Flash chromatography
- Solid-phase extraction
- Accelerated solvent extraction
- Adsorption chromatography
- Lyophilization (freeze drying)
- Microwave-assisted digestion
- Cryogrinders
- In-house acid distillation and water polishers
- Nitrogen-purged desiccators
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Laboratories
The Environmental Chemistry Branch has a modern laboratory facility with dedicated spaces for sample preparation, inorganic and organic analyses. Steps to minimize background contamination and to protect sample integrity have been incorporated into the laboratory design.
Analytical Equipment
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) systems:
- 2 Thermo Trace Ultra GCs with ISQ MS
- Agilent 6890 GC coupled to a Waters Autospec magnetic sector high resolution MS
- Agilent 6890 GC with a 5973N mass selective detector
Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) systems:
- Waters Synapt G2-Si quadrupole time-of-flight MS (LC-QTOF-MS)
- Waters Xevo TQ-XS triple quadrupole MS
Other Analytical systems for Organic Analyses:
- 2 Agilent 6890 GCs with electron capture detectors (1 with dual-column analysis capability)
- 4 HPLC systems with UV and/or Fluorescence detectors (2 of which equipped with fraction collectors)
Analytical systems for Inorganic Analyses:
- Perkin Elmer NexIon 2000 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
- Dionex ICS-1100 Ion Chromatography (IC) system
- Shimadzu TOC-L Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) analyzer
- Direct mercury analyzer (DMA-80)
Preparative and Custom Processing Equipment:
- High and low pressure size exclusion chromatography (SEC)
- Flash chromatography
- Solid-phase extraction
- Accelerated solvent extraction
- Adsorption chromatography
- Lyophilization (freeze drying)
- Microwave-assisted digestion
- Cryogrinders
- In-house acid distillation and water polishers
- Nitrogen-purged desiccators
Return to Analytical Capabilities
Return to Environmental Chemistry