Equipment

List Of Equipment

partment of Chemistry

Poznań University of Life Sciences

ul. Wojska Polskiego 75

60-625 Poznań

tel./fax 61 8487824

 

Equipment:

  • Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) Series AA 200 (280 FS/Z AA) from Agilent Technologies and SpectrAA 200, with graphite cuvette and full Varian equipment.

            Macro and microelements analysis in each type of matric; speciation analysis As (As (III), As (V), DMAA) and Se (Se (IV), Se (VI)) with the combined technique HPLC-HG-G-AAS.

  • Liquid chromatograph coupled with different detectors:

            Photodiode Array Detector (PDA)

            Florescence Detector (FLD)

            Refractive Index Detector (RID)

            Triple Quadrupole Detector (TQD)

            Qualitative and quantitative analysis of mycotoxins, organic acids, sugars and phenolic compounds in plant, animal and environmental matrices.

  • Gas chromatograph coupled with mass detector GC /MS/MS

            Determinations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene (BTEX), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, volatile compounds in environmental and plant                    samples

  • UV-VIS Spectrophotometer Cary-300 Varian.

​            Analysis of sugars, phosphates, nitrates, etc.

  • Spectrophotometers:

​​            FTIR Nicolet iS5 Thermo and Infinity Mainframe (Mattson). Analysis of total hydrocarbon content, indirect determination of the structure of compounds; spectrophotometric analysis of  wood samples, cellulose and lignin isolated from                 wood materials.

  • Thermo Scientific Flash 2000 elemental analyser

            CHNS/O analysis, CO2 emission factor.

  • MarsXpress Microwave Mineralizer (CEM International) with accessories.

            Soil preparation and mineralisation of other types of samples for macro- and microelements analysis.

Contact person:

izabela.ratajczak@up.poznan.pl

piotrg@up.poznan.pl