Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer: Clarus 600/560 D

The Clarus® 560 D GC/MS combines the dependable diffusion-pump capabilities of the high-performance Clarus 600 D MS with the robust Clarus 500 GC, enabling the laboratory to conduct reliable, cost-effective routine analyses for volatile organic mixtures. It offers state-of-the-art electronics for the fastest scanning rates and widest mass range, coupled with the most robust, flexible GC autosampler, an intuitive touch-screen interface and two extra GC channels for additional application work, while maintaining  a compact footprint for minimal bench space. Thus, it is a sophisticated benchtop mass spectrometric detector that provides researcher with the simple tool needed to perform routine gas chromatography/mass spectrometry analyses such:

-Measuring environmental volatile organic compounds

-Analysis of fuel oxygenates

-Determination of residual solvents in pharmaceutical materials

-Identify volatile contaminants in mineral oil

-Drug screening

– Analysis of pesticides in foodstuffs and herbicides in water

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer: JEOL JNM-ECA 500  MHz

NMR instrument capable of handling a wide range of nuclei (e.g. ¹H, ¹³C, ³¹P, ¹⁹F….etc) and techniques in both solution (e.g. 1D, nD  COSY, NOESY, ROESY, HMBC, HMQC…etc) and solid states.  It consists of two broadband transmitters with one high frequency and one low frequency amplifier. A variable temperature controller allows experiments to be run at both high and low temperatures will also be available.  The JEOL 500 is a state-of-the-art spectrometer, equipped with indirect detection capability and a Z-gradient which provides excellent solvent suppression and faster, higher quality 2D spectra using gradient selected experiments.

The Central Lab also has the following instruments:

Elemental Analyzer: Perkin Elmer PE 2400 Series II CHNS/O Analyzer

Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer: PE 2380  

Flame Photometer 410 corning

UV/Vis Spectrophotometers: P.E Lambada 4B and Unicam SP 1750

Conductivity Meter (CM35)

pH – meter (pH25)

HACH-DR/2000