Chemistry lab
The Chemistry Laboratory consists of several units, including:
– General Chemistry Laboratory: dedicated to filtration of water samples, total suspended solids (TSS) analysis, autoclave wet digestion of water samples, centrifugation and oven drying, freeze-drying of sediment and biological samples. The laboratory is equipped with AutoclaveVaporMatic 770, Memmert Stove, ISCO Incubator, Labconco freezone 2.5 Plus Lyophilizer, Beckman CoulterAllegra 25R Centrifuge, Beckman Coulter DU800 Single Beam UV-VIS Spectrophotometer.
– Laboratory for organic carbon: dedicated to the determination of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in water samples and total organic carbon (TOC) in sediment samples by catalytic oxidation at high temperatures; continuous adsorption measurements of dissolved chromophoric organic matter (CDOM); fluorimetric analysis of chlorophyll pigments. The laboratory is equipped with Shimadzu TOC-L CSH series + SSM 5000 organic carbon autoanalyzer, Shimadzu 2600 series dual-beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Turner Design V.1.2 FluorometerTrilogy Laboratory Fluorometer.
– Laboratory for nutrients and chlorophyll pigments: dedicated to analysis of dissolved and total nutrients in water samples by segmented flow autoanalyzer; chlorophyll pigment analysis by HPLC. The laboratory is equipped with Bran + LuebbeAutoanalyzer 3 Continuous Flow Analyzer (Bran + Luebbe, Norderstedt, Germany) and Shimadzu HPLC.