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Applied Environmental Analytics / Environmental Chemistry

The environmental analytics is one of the most demanding fields of chemistry, because the concentrations are usually very low and the matrix heterogeneous (soil, water, air or mixture). The results depend on different factors like the sampling, the preparation, the purity of reagents and instruments, the person performing the analyses, the surrounding circumstances, the analysis equipment and the interpretation/interpreter of results. Although the analysis methods and equipment have developed, running the analysing methods and defining the comparability require time, high quality of know-how and expertise. 

Some examples of analysis equipment:

• GC/MS and GC/FID
• CE
• UV/VIS
• TOC
• ICP-AES
• IMS
• BET

In addition to the fundamental analytics equipment the laboratory has also analysis and research equipment to serve our key research areas.

 Surface and colloid chemistry

• Multipopulation-zeta-analyser

• Streaming potential
• Miniflocculator
• PDA (Photometric dispersion analysis)
• Lumisizer

 Electrochemical methods

• Laboratory and pilot scale testing equipment
• Stripping voltammetry
• Chemical oxidation tehnology
• Potentiostat/galvanostat

 Ozonation and UV equipment

• Testing of different AOP’s (Advanced Oxidation Processes)

• Ultrasonic equipment

• Catalysis