Laboratory equipment
Spectrometric laboratory room 0-034 and 0-036
- A Bruker Vertex 70 VNIR and TIR spectrophotometer with custom-built Optosol external integrating sphere for solid samples.
- Two types of ASD spectrometers, Model Fieldspec Pro and model Fieldspec 3). Accessories ; pistol grip, high intensity contact probe, 10 meter underwater fiber optics, Integrating Sphere and several fore optics.
- A MIDAC thermal range FTIR fieldspectrometer with custom-built fore optics and a liquid nitrogen cooled MCT detector.
- Four chlorophyll meters. Spad 502
- Two Licor LAI200 leave area index meters
- A TRAC for measuring canopy gap size distribution and gap fraction
- A GER 3700 spectrometer with interchangeable optics and a fiber probe.
- A Pima II field portable spectrometer
- A NEC thermo tracer TH9100 series. A non-contact and high sensitive infrared radiometric camera
- A Tetracam Agricultural Camera. A near infrared digital stills camera.
- A Li-Cor Li-1400 data logger with several Spherical Quantum Sensors
- A MIDAC FTIR field spectrometer, thermal infrared range, with custom-built fore optics, (arrival July 2009).
Analytical instrumentation room 0-060
- Varian ICP-OES Liberty II with axial plasma including water cooler, computer and printer.
- Flame AAS, double beam PerkinElmer 2380 with lamps for 18 elements
- Fume cupboard with airfilter, used as balance space
- Precision balances 0.0001 gram, Sartorius and Mettler
Sample preparation room 0-070
- Jaw crusher for rock samples
- Powder mill, disc mill with stainless steel vessel
- Micro ball mill with ceramic and tungsten carbide vessels
- Five Jones riffle splitters for different sizes
- Three vibrating sieve machines
- Brass and stainless steel sieves, ASTM and other mesh sizes
- Large and small porcelain mortars & pestles
- Large and small iron mortars and pestles
- High temperature furnace
- Three drying ovens
- Several desiccators
- Vacuum cleaner
Laboratory chemical store and office room 0-068
- Chemical storage cupboard
- Refrigerator for chemicals
- Storage of WRES equipment for water analysis
Soil analysis room 0-066
- Particle size pipette equipment
- Over end bottle shaker
- Drying oven Heraeus
- PF equipment low pressure and high pressure
- Binocular microscope
- Stereo microscope
- Equipment for CEC determination
- Basins for pF determination and pF pressure vessels
Storage room 0-064
- Frantz iso-dynamic magnetic separator
- Magnetic shakers, water baths, hot plates,
- Soil mixers
- Balances in various ranges, mainly Mettler
- WRES Department field equipment for water analysis
- Hydraulic conductivity instrumentation
- Turner fluorometer for uranium analysis
- PerkinElmer UV-Vis through-flow spectrometer
- Bausch and Lomb Colorimeter with cuvets
- Four tube or 32 tube capacity centrifuge 4000 rpm, Kokusan
Wet Laboratory room 0-062
- Fume cupboard for acid decompositions
- Safety storage cupboard for liquid Chemicals
- Refrigerator for storage of water samples
- Drying oven Heraeus
- Hach spectrometer, model DR/2010, for anion analysis
- Automatic sample dispenser
- Heavy liquid separation glassware
- pH meters Mettler Toledo, Horiba, Hach
- EC meters
- Dissolve oxygen laser electrode, Hach
- Computer & printer
Storage rooms 0-072 and 0-061
- Safety gas box for four argon cylinders
- Safety gas box for one acetylene cylinder
- Safety cupboard for organic chemicals
For ITC staff and students only
- a list of all available instruments is available in Topdesk
- Equipment reservations for fieldwork of field spectrometers, special camera’s etc., can be made via in Topdesk or via Henk Wilbrink.