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.