Analytical Chemistry Suite
A lab space equipped with a wide variety of both standard and specialized equipment
Location:
NAIT Main Campus
Edmonton, Alberta
Size:
2,100 sq. ft.
What this space offers
Our analytical chemistry suite is equipped for materials characterization, sample and composition analysis.
Suitable for:
- Characterization of the following sample types: soil, groundwater and freshwater, biomass, plastics products, including post-consumer plastics, solids, oil, industrial water, slurries, ash
- Identification and quantification of chemicals in gases/headspace and in liquids
- Clay minerology
- Bulk minerology
- Crystallography
- Identification and quantification of microplastics
Select equipment and features
- Raman atomic force Microscope (AFM-Raman)
- Bruker Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR)
- Gas chromatographs (MS, FID, TCD, PFPD, SimDis®)
- Inductively coupled plasm optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES)
- Ion chromatography (IC)
- Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOF)
- Nicolet chemical imaging microscope with FTIR
- Simultaneous thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) with differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)
- Ultra-high performance liquid chromatograph with quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometer (UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS)
- ThermoFisher DXR3 Raman microscope
- Bruker wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (XRF)
- Bruker X-ray diffractometer (XRD)