Characterisation Laboratories for Environmental Engineering Research (CLEER)

A wide range of equipment for the preparation and analysis of chemical compositions of aqueous, solid, liquid and gaseous materials.

The facility also comprises standard laboratory glassware and laboratory bench space.

Equipment

Name	Make/Model	Details
Gas Chromatograph and Mass Spectrometer with an Automated Turbomatrix Headspace Sampler and Thermal Desorber	Perkin Elmer CLARUS 500 GC-MS	For analyses of organic compounds.
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer Thermo X-Series	Thermo X-Series 1 ICP-MS	For elemental analyses of aqueous samples down to detection levels of part per trillion.
Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer	Perkin Elmer Optima 2100 DV ICP-OES	For elemental analyses of aqueous samples.
Ion Chromatograph	Dionex ICS-2000 Ion Chromatograph	For analyses of aqueous cations and anions.
Mercury analyser	Leco Hg analyser AMA 254	For the analysis of mercury in solid and liquid samples e.g. coal samples.
Micro-gas chromatograph	Varian CP-4900	For quantiative analysis of light gases from hydrogen to C20 gases.
Microwave digestion system	Anton Parr Multiwave 3000	A preparation method for ICP analysis this machine uses high temperature acid digestion to solubilise solid samples.
Sulphur/Carbon analyser	Leco S/C analyser SC-144 DR	High temperature combustion method for analysis of total carbon and sulphur in solid samples.
Total Organic Carbon and Nitrogen analyser	Shimadzu	For analysis of total carbon and nitrogen in aqueous and solid samples.