A wide range of instrumentation is available in the laboratories of the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Program on campus. Some of this equipment includes:

Process Testing Equipment

• A fully-instrumented and computer-controlled laboratory ozone contacting system, with liquid and gas-phase ozone monitors
• An ultraviolet light reactor with LPUV bulb array
• Gravity Settling and Flotation Jar Test Machines
• Ultrafiltration Membrane Test Cell
• Granular Media filtration Setup
• Hollow fiber membrane Reactors
• A wide range of additional process equipment

Equipment for Analysis of Microorganisms and for Biotechnology

• DNA Engine Thermocycler (MJ Research)
• Luminary Workstation
• Electrophoresis
• Cleanbox DNA Workstation (MJ Research)
• Hybridization Oven/Shaker (Amersham Biosciences)
• PCR Workstation

Equipment for Trace Analysis of Organic Compounds

• 5 Total Organic Carbon Analyzers
  • Shimadzu 5000
  • Shimadzu TOCV
  • Shimadzu 4000
  • Dohrmann DC-80
• Total Nitrogen Analyzer
  • Shimadzu TOCV
• 3 Total Organic Halide Analyzers (Euroglass, Mitsubishi and Dorhmann)
• 7 Capillary Gas Chromatographs, most equipped with both FID and ECD.
  • Agilent 5890 and 6890 GCs
  • Varian 3300 and 3500 GCs
• 4 Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometers
  • Varian 2200 Ion Trap GC/MS
  • Quadrupole instrument with EI, PCI and NCI (HP 5988)
  • Waters GC-TOF, Time of flight
  • Waters Xevo APGC QTof
• 4 Liquid Chromatographs, with diode array, fluorescence and conductivity detectors
  • HPLC: Waters Alliance
  • UPLC: Waters Acquity
• 4 Liquid Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometers
  • Finnigan LCQ (MS, MS 2 to MS 10 ) with Waters Alliance
  • Xevo G2-XS QTof (LC/MS and GC/MS)
  • LC/MS: Waters Quattro Premier
  • LC/MS: Waters Quattro Micro
• Pyroprobe for pyrolysis-GC/MS (CDS-2000)

Equipment for Trace Analysis of Inorganic Compounds

• 4 Ion Chromatographs employing Chemical Suppression
  • Dionex Units
  • Metrohm Model 850
• Inductively-coupled plasma – mass spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Elan 9000 ICP/MS)
• Inductively-coupled plasma – emission spectrometer (Perkin Elmer ICP/AES)
• Total Carbon and Total Nitrogen
• Many single analyte YSI meters and clustered sondes
• Many Ion specific electrodes and ISE meters

Equipment for Sample Preparation

• 2 Freeze dryers with shell freezer
  • Freeze Drying: Labconco 8
• Rotary evaporators (two 1-L bench-top units and a 20-L floor unit)
  • Rotary Evaporation: Buchi R220
• Multi-sample Evaporative Concentrators
  • TurboVap LV
  • Labconco RapidVap
• Preparative-scale LC columns (up to 9L volume)
• 2 Purge & Trap Units (Envirochem)
• Closed Loop Stripping Apparatus (Brechbuhler)
• Centrifuges (floor and bench-top units)
• Ultrafiltration cells and pressurized reservoirs
• SPE manifolds and associated equipment
• FMS PowerPrep SPE system (6 channels)

Miscellaneous

• Field sampling equipment
• Flow measuring devices for flowing surface waters
• 5 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers (diode array and photomultiplier-based units)
  • Agilent 8453 diode array spectrophotometer
  • Agilent (HP) 8452 diode array spectrophotometer
  • Perkin Elmer Lambda 3 spectrophotometer
  • Gensys 10s UV-Vis spectrophotometer
  • Hach DR 4000 spectrophotometer
• Spectrometer Probe (S::CAN)
• Spectrofluorometer
• Incubator Shaker (New Brunswick G25)
• Autoclaves

In addition, there are other state-of-the-art analytical instruments at the UMass-Amherst campus, which are available. For example, the campus mass spectrometry facility has a JOEL high resolution GC/MS which has been used by EWRE faculty on many occasions. The UMass NMR Facility has several Bruker NMR instruments, (AMX-II 500, DSX 300, MSL 300 and ASX 300) all of which are available for use by the EWRE program. In addition, there are full-time GC/MS and NMR research scientists who run the two facilities.