FACILITIES

PHYSICAL SITE

• Sample Control Center
  
  
• Computer Center; consisting of a main file server and local area network hub (LAN)
  
  
• Administrative Offices
  
  
• Walk-in coolers and freezers for sample storage with 24 hour temperature surveillance
  
  
• Organics Extraction Laboratory
  
  
• Gas Chromatography/Liquid Chromatography Instrument Room
  
  
• Volatiles Laboratories
  
  
• Wet Chemistry Laboratory
  
  
• Trace Metals Laboratory
  
  
• Bacteriology Laboratory
  
  
• Controlled Access Archive Room with alarm and dry chemical fire suppression system
  
  
• Sample Processing Area
  
  
• Hazardous Waste Central Storage
  

INSTRUMENTATION

Liquid Chromatographs

LC/MS/MS:

• Sciex 3000

Conventional Liquid Chromatographs:

• Varian 5500 with Varian 200 UV Detector and Autosampler
  
• Perkin Elmer Series 410 (2) pumps
  
• Liquid chromatograph detectors used interchangeably:
  Varian Fluorichrom
  Varian Fluorichrom II
  Perkin Elmer LC-240 Fluorescence (2)
  Electrochemical
  Perkin Elmer - LC 95 UV-VIS
  Perkin Elmer 235C Diode Array
  Shimadzu SPD 10AV UV/VIS
  
• Dionex post column derivatization unit
  
• Pickering PCX 500 post column derivatization unit
  

Gas Chromatographs

GC-MS:

• Hewlett Packard 5972 Mass Spectrometer with Hewlett Packard 5890 GC and autosampler

Conventional GC Systems:

• Varian 3400 with dual ECD and autosampler (2)
  
• Varian Star 3400 with dual TSD and autosampler
  
• Hewlett Packard 5890 with dual ECD and autosampler
  
• Varian 3400 with TSD and ECD and autosampler
  
• Varian CP-3800 dual TSD and autosampler

GC Systems for Volatile Analysis:

• Varian Star 3400 with PID and HECD in series with Tekmar AquaTek autosampler and HP concentrator
  
• Varian 3300 with PID and HECD in series with Tekmar AquaTek 50 autosampler and Tekmar 3000 concentrator
  
• Varian 3400 with FID and PID with Tekmar AquaTek 50 autosampler and Tekmar 3000 concentrator
  
• Hewlett Packard 5973 Mass Spectrometer with Hewlett Packard 6890 GC with Archon autosampler and Tekmar 3300 concentrator
  
• Hewlett Packard 5973 Mass Spectrometer with Hewlett Packard 6890 GC with Archon autosampler and Tekmar Velocity XPT concentrator

Metals

• Thermo Jarrel Ash ICAP 61E
  
• Thermo Jarrel Ash AA Spectrophotometer Video 12
  
• Perkin Elmer AA Spectrophotometer 4100 ZL and autosampler
  
• CETAC Mercury Analyzer M-6000A and ASX-510 autosampler

General

• ABC Instruments AS-200 Gel Permeation Chromatograph
  
• Beckman Acculab 4 Infrared Spectrophotometer
  
• Spectronic 20D+UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  
• Perkin Elmer Lambda 40 UV/VIS Spectrometer
  
• Dionex DX-120 Ion Chromatograph and autosampler
  
• Centrifuge IED Model 8
  
• Centrifuge IEC Medispin
  
• Centrifuge Sorvall RC-5B Refrigerated Superspeed
  
• Evaporators: N-Evap Units (3)
  
• Evaporators: Rotary, Buchi RE 121 (5)
  
• Soxhlet apparatus and heating units (3)
  
• Barnstead Nanopure system with R/O pretreatment and presoftener

SAMPLE PREPARATION EQUIPMENT

• Biro commercial grinder for high moisture samples
  
• Jacobson Hammermill for low moisture samples
  
• Osterizer blender
  
• Hobart Model 84145 Food Cutter

SAMPLE STORAGE FACILITIES

• 20 cu ft upright freezers (11)
  
• 8 ft x 10 ft walk-in freezers (2)
  
• 8 ft x 10 ft walk-in cooler