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Facilities & Instrumentation

 

Facilities

North Coast Labs is located on the northern coast of California and is housed in a custom-designed 9000-square foot building with a shipping area annex. The main building is protected by a continuously monitored fire and burglar alarm system and includes the following units:

  • 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
  • Sciex 4000

Conventional Liquid Chromatographs

  • Perkin Elmer Series 410 (2) pumps
  • Liquid chromatograph detectors used interchangeably:
    Perkin Elmer LC-240 Fluorescence (2)
    Perkin Elmer Series 200A Fluorescence Detector
    Perkin Elmer 235C Diode Array
    Shimadzu SPD 10AV UV/VIS Dual Wavelength Detector
  • Varian ProStar UV/VIS Dual Wavelength Detector
  • Pickering PCX 500 post column derivatization unit
  • Varian ProStar pump (2)
  • Varian ProStar Autosampler
  • Pickering Pinnacle PCX 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 dual ECD and autosampler
  • Varian CP-3800 dual TSD and autosampler
  • Varian 3400 with FID and autosampler
  • Varian CP-3800 with FID and autosampler
  • Varian CP-3800 with dual ECD and autosampler

GC Systems for Volatile Analysis:

  • 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

  • Agilent 720 Axial ICP
  • CETAC Mercury Analyzer M-6000A and ASX-510 autosampler
  • Perkin Elmer NexION 300X– ICPMS

General

  • 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
  • Telemar Dohrman Phoenix 8000 TOC analyzer
 

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
 

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