Laboratory Equipment
Analytical instruments:
- HPLC systems with UV, diode array and fluorescence detectors
- Capillary electrophoresis with DAD
- HPLC with MSD/TOF (APCI, turbo spray and ESI interfaces)
- HPLC with UVD
- Ion chromatograph with conductivity, UV and electrochemical detectors
- UV-VIS spectrophotometer
- GC systems with FID, ECD and WLD, headspace autosampler
- GC-MSD, SPME autosampler, PTV-injector
- Atomic absorption spectrometry (flame, graphite-furnace, hydride generation and cold-vapour techniques)
- Polarograph
- different TOC analysers, boat modul
- AOX/POX/EOX analyser
- AOS analyser
- TNb analyser
- TS analyser (solid samples)
- microwave decomposition system, freeze drying apparatus
- SPE and SPME equipments
Experimental facilities:
- equipment for adsorption studies (batch reactors, differential column batch-reactors, fixed-bed adsorbers)
- test filter systems for biodegradation studies (biologically active filter, cycle system)
- different sediment columns
- gang-stirrer (flocculation unit)
- laboratory UV irradation units
- different electrodes (diamond electrodes)
- H2S generator
- ozone generator and ozone monitoring system
Environmental Hazard assessment:
- Plant growth chambers with controlled light, temperature and humidity (Conviron)
- Determination of number, vitality, agglomeration and volume of cells (CASY)
- Automated imaging of size, colour, shape and area of small organisms (LemnaTec Scanalyzer)
- Determination of ready biodegradability according to OECD 301 F (OxiTop)
- 2 lab scale wastewater treatment plant with nitrification und denitrification step (OECD 303A)
- Equipment to determine the biological primary degradation, hydrolysis and photolysis of chemicals as well as to determine their sorption/mobility in soil.