The Chemical Oxidation Laboratory

The Environmental Engineering Laboratories, which occupy a total space of about 2000 ft² on the fourth floor of the Engineeering Building, consist of the following laboratories:

• Water Quality Lab
• Analytical Instrumentation Lab
• Chemical Oxidation Lab
• Microbiology and Bioremediation Lab
• Cold Room
• Teaching Lab

Some of the state-of-the-art analytical instruments available in these laboratories are:

• Hewlett Packard 6890 Gas Chromatograph with Micro-ECD Detector, 7683 Auto Injector and Chem Workstation

• Hewlett Packard 5793 Mass Selective Spectrometer Interfaced to the HP-6890 G Equipped with 59864B Ionization Gauge Controller and NIST Search Library

• Shimadzu 14A Gas Chromatographs with FID and ECD Detectors and AOC-20i Auto Injector

• Perkin Elmer AutoSystem Gas Chromatographs with FID & ECD Detectors and PE Nelson Workstation

• Tekmar LSC-3000 Purge & Trap Sample Concentrator

• Tekmar ALS-2016 Purge and Trap Autosampler with Automatic Sample Heater

• Dionex DX-500 Ion Chromatograph with 2-channel/pump (GP50) system for parallel simultaneous of two samples. System equipped with conductivity and conductivity/electrochemical detectors (ED40)

• Dionex AS-50 Autosampler interfaced with Dionex Ion Chromatograph

• Waters HPLC-515 High Pressure Liquid Chromatograph with Photodiode Array (Waters 996) and Scanning Fluorescence (Waters 474) Detectors and PC Workstation.

• Shimadzu UV-1601 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer

• Two Shimadzu TOC-5000A Total Organic Carbon Analyzers

• Shimadzu ASI-5000A Autosampler interfaced to the TOC-5000A

• Shimadzu SSM-5000A Solid Sample Module Interfaced to the second TOC Analyzer

• Varian Spectra-220 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with UltraAA-Lamp Power Control Module and PC Workstation

• Varian GTA-110 Graphite Furnace Interfaced to the Varian Specta-220 with Varian Autosampler

• Spectronic 1001 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer

• Durrum Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer

• Spectronic Genesis Spectrophotometer

• Millipore Milli-Q Ultra-clean Low TOC Water Purification System

• Columbus Instrument Micro-Oxymax 10-Channel Computerized Respirometer with Dual-range O₂ and CO₂ Detectors and PC Workstation

• Two Osmonic OREC V-10 Ozone Generators

• Welsbach T-408 Ozone Generator

• Rayonet Photochemical Reactor with 16 UV lamps

• COY Anaerobic Chamber, 84 ft³ capacity (7’ [L] x 3’ [W] x 4’ [H]) with vacuum interlock chamber

• Two HACH Chemical Oxygen Demand Reactors

• HACH BODtrack Biochemical Oxygen Demand measuring unit

• Seven Bausch & Lomb Optical Microscopes

• Javelin Spectar Microscope Video Camera with Panasonic Monitor

• COMCON Microscope with Darkfield, Phase Contrast and Fluorescence Vertical Illuminator

• Hinkle’s Otical M1000-D Light Microscope

• Two Quebec Darkfield Colony Counters

• Orion Model 407A Specific Ion Meter with a Variety of Selective Ion Probes

• Two HACH Model 2100A Turbidimeter

• Whatman 78-40 TOC Gas Generator

• Whatman Hydrogen Gas generator

• Whatman Zero Air Generator

• International Model HN Centrifuge

• Market Forged STERILMATIC Autoclave

• American Sterilizer Autoclave

• Jelrus High Temperature Furnace

• Lindberg Digital Control Tube Furnace

• Yamato DX-400 Digital Control Drying Ovens

• Labline Gravity Drying Oven

• Yamato IC-600 Digital Control Incubator

• BOD Incubator

• Precision Scientific Incubator

• pH Meters (Acumet 800, Beckman Zeromatic and Corning)

• Three Mettler Analytical Balances

• Labconco Distillation Unit

• Barnstead E-Pure Organic-Free Water Purification System

• Two water purification systems

• NesLab Endocal RTE-9 Refrigerated Circulating Bath

• Lindberg/Blue Refrigerated Circulating Shaking Bath

• Shakers (Eberbach, Precision), pumps Masterflux and FMI), Refrigerators, timers, water baths (Precision, Fisher), stirrers, hotplates . . . etc.

• Nine Pentium III & II Computers
  

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