Geochemical laboratory

Perkin Elmer 8300DV ICP/OES 

ICP/OES with dual view (axial and radial for a full range of concentrations) of metals, rare earth metals,  sulphur and phosphorus.

At the moment this instrument is not available for external requests. 

VWR UV-VIS Spectrophotometer

UV-VIS spectrometer with Basic Mode, quantitative determination, wavelength scan, kinetics, multi-wavelength, DNA/protein.

DR3900 Laboratory VIS Spectrophotometer with RFID* Technology

Spectrophotometer technology with high-speed wavelength scanning across the UV and Visible Spectrum, a solution that scans and tracks your chemistry and samples with RFID tags. It is a portable field spectrophotometer.

Elementar Unicube CHNS analyzer is capable of determine weight percent carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur in a variety of samples.

Perkin Elmer TGA 8000™

The TGA 8000 gives you the confidence that comes with total control of your sample atmosphere, both temperature and gas. Our furnace's temperature control system creates a wide effective temperature range – from subambient to 1,200 °C. The system delivers heating rates from 0.1 °C to 500 °C/minute to address the widest range of applications, and its low mass and forced-air cooling allow it to cool quickly for fast sample turnaround. For sample gas environment, the system provides two integral mass-flow controllers for balance and sample purge. Built-in gas switching from Pyris™ software makes switching easy, while optional gas mixing allows the blending of up to three reaction gases, with delivery direct to the sample area.

Shimadzu TOC-L

The TOC-L series of TOC analyzers adopts the 680°C combustion catalytic oxidation method, which was developed by Shimadzu and is now used worldwide. While providing an ultra wide range of 4 μg/L to 30,000 mg/L, these analyzers boast a detection limit of 4 μg/L through coordination with NDIR. This is the highest level of detection sensitivity available with the combustion catalytic oxidation method.

In addition, the combustion catalytic oxidation method makes it possible to efficiently oxidize not only easily-decomposed, low-molecular-weight organic compounds, but also hard-to-decompose insoluble and macromolecular organic compounds.

Synergy™ HTX Multi-Mode Microplate Reader is a dual optics design that provides superior performance for UV-Vis absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence and AlphaScreen®/ AlphaLISA® workflows.

QIAcube Connect allows research labs to fully automate and track their well known QIAGEN spin-column extraction and purification protocols – at the push of a button. Allows automated DNA, RNA and protein sample processing.

The XRFuse (The xrFuse 2) range of automated electric fusion machines has been developed based on more than 25 years of experience of fusion technology and applications. Designed with the latest thermal imaging technology, consumer tested in the biggest XRF laboratories in the world, xrFuse is designed with the customer in mind.  

Zero Contamination – The ceramic cradle and holders ensure that the environment for creating beads has zero contamination from these sources.

Process Flexibility/ ICP – The machine is designed for both pre-heating and ICP/OES processes. Simple to access, control and monitor. All at the touch of a button.

Lortone Slab Saw

This quiet, fully enclosed, professional quality 12" slab saw is a real workhorse. Fixed rate power feed for cutting hard materials and a hinged hood to reduce oil mist. Large capacity vise can hold up to 4" x 6" material. Detachable coolant tray for easy cleaning. Includes 12" Blade and 1/3 hp motor.

Struers Knuth-Rotor 2 Polishing Machine

Planetary Ball Mills are used wherever the highest degree of fineness is required. Apart from the classical mixing and size reduction processes, the mills also meet all the technical requirements for colloidal grinding and have the energy input necessary for mechanical alloying processes. The extremely high centrifugal forces of a planetary ball mill result in very high pulverization energy and therefore short grinding times.

The PM 200 is a convenient benchtop model with 2 grinding stations.

Eijckelkamp hydraulic conductivity instrumentation for measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity. The laboratory permeameter is a constant water head method (Darcy Equation).

Particle size determination via the sedimentation method.