Description/Activity

1.         trace elements pollution

2.         trace elements in the oil-biosphere system.

3.         surface and groundwater chemistry.

4.         ultrafine particulate dispersion in air

5.         human exposition to heavy metals

Equipment

Hosted at the Department of Mathematics and Geosciences

• Perkin Elmer NexION 300 ICP Mass Spectrometer.
• Hand-held XRF for the non-destructive measurement of elemental composition on solid matrix.
• Perkin Elmer GF-AAS Analyst 100 atomic absorption spectrophotometer (coupled with graphite furnace)
• Milestone, MLS 1200 high-performance microwave digestion unit.
• ECS 4010 Costech CHN Analyzer

Hosted at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences:

• Perkin Elmer optima 8000 ICP-OES spectrometer.
• Perkin Elmer SPB 100-12 (12 tubes) sample preparation block
• DISCmini portable nanoparticle analyzer.
• Metrohm Voltammetry system
• HPLC pump HPLC-ICP hyphenated method
• Metrohm ionic chromatographer

Contacts:

Stefano Covelli – covelli@units.it