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The table below summarises the wide range of instrumentation currently housed in the CAOG facility.

  1. Six Gas chromatograph mass selective detectors
  2. Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer with GC-Olfactometry (GC-O) accessory
  3. Gas chromatograph-high resolution mass spectrometer (GC-HRMS-MS)
  4. Pyrolysis-gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (Py-GC-MS)
  5. Robotic solid phase micro extraction (SPME) stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE), purge and trap thermal desorption (PT/TD) closed loop stripping analysis (CLSA) units
  6. Liquid chromatograph - time of flight mass spectrometer (LC-TOFMS)
  7. Liquid chromatograph - triple quadruple mass spectrometer (LC-MS-MS)
  8. High performance size exclusion chromatograph with a variety of detectors (HPSEC-DAD, HPSEC-OCD, HPSEC-fluorescence)
  9. High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) with a variety of detectors UV (DAD), synchronous fluorescence, refractive index
  10. Ion chromatograph with suppressed ion conductivity detection
  11. Total organic carbon and dissolved organic carbon (TOC/DOC) analysers
  12. Gas chromatograph-isotope ratio-mass spectrometer (GC-IRMS) - two systems for carbon and hydrogen.
  13. Pyrolysis (Py-GC-IRMS); Thermal desorption (TD-GC-IRMS)
  14. Elemental analysis (EA-IRMS) of solid samples
  15. Solid phase extraction (SPE) robot
  16. Accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) robot

Capabilities within other research groups in the Department of Applied Chemistry:

  1. Fourier transform - infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) with microscope
  2. Fourier Transform Raman (FT-Raman), and dispersive Raman with microscopes
  3. Thermal analysis
  4. Capillary electrophoresis

Capabilities available at the University of Western Australia through collaboration:

  1. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
  2. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
  3. EA-IRMS of liquid samples (H2O)

 

    
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