Environmental Engineering Buildings and Equipment
Buildings
- Engineering Laboratory II (ELab II)
- Research Labs & Graduate Student Offices
- Marston Hall
- Faculty Offices & Additional Graduate Student Offices
- Pilot Building and Field Station
Equipment
The Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Program occupies the top two floors of the new ELab II building (completed 2004). This includes about 13,000 sq-ft of research laboratories, graduate student offices and computing laboratories, and 6 walk-in environmental control rooms. In addition, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a full-time technician available to support research efforts. A wide range of instrumentation is available in the laboratories of the Environmental and Water Resources Engineering Program on campus.
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
- Integrion
- 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: Horiba Aqualog
- 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.