Laboratories and equipment

Centre for Environmental Quality Analysis (CAJŚ) - certified laboratory

  • Atomic emission spectrometer (inductively coupled plasma) ICP-AES Thermo Scientific iCAP 7400
  • Elementary composition analyser CHNS CE Instruments
  • Mercury (Hg) analyser MA-2 Nippon Instruments Corporation
  • High-pressure microvawe mineralisation unit Mars 5 CEM Corporation
  • HPLC chromagraph coupled with mass spectrometer TSQ Quantum Access MAX (electrospray ionisation, APPI and APCI)
  • HPLC chromatograph Varian (UV-VIS PAD, refraktometry, fluorescence, and electrochemical detectors)
  • Ion chromatograph Dionex ICS-1100
  • Spectrophotometer Merck Pharo 300
  • Multi-parameter lab device WTW InoLab Multi Level 3
  • Turbidimeter TB 1000 Eutech Instruments
  • OxyTop devide WTW

Organic matter laboratory

  • Carbon and nitrogen analyser (TC/TOC/TN) in solid samples Vario MACROcube (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Germany)
  • Carbon and nitrogen analyser (TC/TN) in liquid samples EnviroTOC (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Germany)
  • Freeze-dryer Labconco FreeZone 2.5
  • UV-VIS spectrophotometer HACH DR5000 (Loveland, Colorado, USA)
  • Dialysis device Cimarec Barnstead Thermolyne
  • Lab centrifuges Sigma 2-16, Sigma 2-16P, MPW 351

Soil elementar composition lab

  • Atomic emission spectrometer (microvawe excitation) 4200 MP-AES (Agilent Technologies) coupled with nitrogen generator ZEFIRO MP (EIRO MP Cinel SRL)
  • Atomic absorption spectrometer (flame excitation) AAS Varian SpectrAA 400 Plus
  • High-pressure microvawe mineralisation unit Microwave Digestion System – Start D (Milestone Helping Chemists, USA)
  • Open/block mineralisation unit DKL 20 Heating Digester (VELP Scientifica)

Physical and water soil properties lab

  1. Soil density analyser Frowag 1.521
  2. Soil infiltration analyser Eijkelkamp
  3. Sand block for water desorption analysis Eijkelkamp, range pF 0-2
  4. Kaolinite-sand block for water desorption analysis Eijkelkamp, range pF 2-2.9
  5. Desortion analyser 5 bar, Soilmoisture Equipment Corp., Santa Barbara, California, USA
  6. Desortion analyser 15 bar, Soilmoisture Equipment Corp., Santa Barbara, California, USA
  7. Equipment set for soil particle-size distribution (hydrometer and sieve methods)

Physico-chemical properties lab

  • Spectrometric analyser of soil colour (Munsell, LAB RGB and other systems) Konica Minolta CM-600d
  • Authomated titrators Titro Line 5000 coupled with Elmetron EPS-1s electrode
  • Flame photometer (analysis of Ca, K, Na in water/acetate extracts)
  • Conductometer Mettler Toledo Five Easy FE30 coupled with MT Le 703 electrode
  • Multi-parameter lab device Mettler Toledo Seven Multi S47 coupled with MT  Rutine Pro and MT Le 703 electrodes
  • PH-meter Mettler Toledo Seven Compact pH/Ion S220 coupled with MT Expert Pro electrode

Plant chemistry and physiology lab

  • Ion chromatograph Metrohm 940 Professional IC Vario
  • UHPLC chromatograph Knaue PDA-1 PLATINblue
  • Atomic absorption spectrometer (flame excitation) Varian SPECTRAA 220FS
  • Atomic absorption spectrometer (flame excitation) Carl-Zeiss Jena AA–N30
  • UV-VIS Spektrofotometers Thermo Scientific Evolution 600 UV–Vis, CECIL 2011 UV–Vis i SEMCO S91E
  • High-pressure microvawe mineralisation unit CEM Mars 5
  • Phytotrone chambers Sanyo MLR-350
  • Thermal cycler for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Bio-Rad T-100
  • Protein blotter (western-blot) Bio-Rad Criterion Blotter
  • Gel electrophoresis system Bio-Rad Mini-PROTEAN Tetra Cell
  • Gel electrophoresis system Bio-Rad PROTEAN II xi Cell
  • Lab centrifuges: Eppendorf 5425, SIGMA 3K18 and Digicen 21R

Ecotoxicology lab

  • Acute toxicity analyser (waters and water extracts) Microtox®500 (Modern Water Inc., New Castle, DE, USA)
  • Plate ecotoxicology test MARA - Microbial Assay for Risk Assessment (NCIMB Ltd. Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) coupled with PhPlate software (Microplate Techniques AB, Stockholm, Sweden) and plate scanner
  • Soil respiration measurement set OxiTop® Control B6M coupled with OxiTop OC100 controller (Xylem Analytics Inc., Weilheim, Germany)
  • Ecotox test set TOXKIT (TIGRET Sp. z o.o., Warszawa, Poland)
    • Acute toxicity test THAMNOTOXKIT F with Thamnocephalus platyurus
    • Chronic toxicity test OSTRACODTOXKIT F with Heterocypris incongruens
    • Phytotox test PHYTOTOXKIT for solid and liquid phases
  • Centrifuge-wortex FVL-2400N Combi-Spin (BioSan, Poland)

Soil micromorphology lab

  • Soil sample impregnation device Struers CitoVac
  • Resin block cutter Logitech
  • Thin section polishing device Logitech CL50
  • Polarization microskope Zeiss Axio Lab A1