Organisation

GeoScience Laboratory

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.

 

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