Laboratory Equipment

Analytical instruments:

•     Sciex_X500R® Q-TOF System
•     sciex 4500 QTRAP® LC/MS/MS System
•    sciex 6500+ QTRAP® LC/MS/MS System
•     Ion chromatograph
•     UV-VIS spectrophotometer
•     GC-MSD, SPME autosampler, PTV-injector
•     TOC analyser
•     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.