Centre of Excellence
Environmental Technologies
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
 

ERICo

Contact: andrej.glinsek@erico.si

Large equipment

  • API 3000 Applied Biosystems - MDS SCIEX mass spectrometer (MS)
  • Agilent 7500c ICP-MS
  • Hewlett Packard 4500 Plus ICP-MS
  • Perkin Elmer SIMAA 6000 electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometer
  • MS/ECD Hewlett Packard gas chromatograph with Gerstell CTC preparation and inlet system
  • Agilent 1100 liquid chromatograph
  • Dionex DX-500 ion chromatograph
  • Hewlett Packard 1050 liquid chromatograph
  • XL Perkin Elmer autosystem gas chromatograph
  • Shimadzu TOC analyser
  • Eltra Elemental analyser
  • Euroglas AOX/S analyser
  • Perkin Elmer Analyst 100 flame atomic absorption spectrometer with FIAS-400 sample preparation system
  • Perkin Elmer Lambda 40 UV/VIS spectrometer
  • HACH UV/VIS spectrophotometer
  • Mettler Toledo, Metrohm, WTW – pH, Eh, conductivity, TDS…instruments
  • Behr in Metrohm automatic titration units
  • IKA calorimeter
  • (WTW, Mikro+Polo) biological oxygen demand analysers
  • SO2, ECHO sensors
  • Echo system for preparation of gas mixtures
  • Olympus, Opton and Carl Zeiss microscopes and stereomicroscope, equipped with camera lucida and a digital video system


Field equipment

  • Buhler Montec and ISCO autosamplers
  • Q-Logger and ISCO portable flow-meters
  • Portable oxygen, pH, Eh, conductivity sensors
  • Sampling equipment for soil and sediments
  • Cooling system for gas sampling
  • AMES weather station
  • SARAD sampling station
  • Aerosol sampling devices


Analytical methods

Analyses of water samples (waste water, surficial water, precipitation…)

  • Basic physico-chemical parameters (pH, SEP, COD, BOD, suspended solids, transparency etc.)
  • Heavy metals (ICP-MS )
  • Heavy metals, simultaneous ET-AAS, FAAS, HG-AAS and CV-AAS
  • Anions and cations; ion chromatography, electrochemistry and UV/VIS spectrometry
  • Analysis of pesticides, PCB, PAH and other organic substances; GC-MS/ECD and LC-MS/MS
  • AOX and TOC automated analysis
  • Toxicity tests, biodegradability


Soil and sediment analyses

  • Basic physico-chemical parameters (pH, texture, plant available P and K, organic matter etc.)
  • Heavy metals (ICP-MS, simultaneous ET-AAS, FAAS, HG-AAS and CV-AAS)
  • COD, BOD, TOC, TC, S and N-Kjeldahl automated analysis
  • pesticides, PCB, PAH and other organic substances ( GC-MS/ECD and LC-MS/MS)
  • pedological analyses


Gas analyses

  • CO2, H2S, dimethylsulfide, methane (GC-FID/FPD)
  • CO, SO2, NOx, O2, H2 (electrochemical analysis)
  • Concentration of dust particles


Biological samples

  • Heavy metals (ICP-MS, simultaneous ET-AAS, FAAS, HG-AAS and CV-AAS)
  • vitamins, antioxidants, pigments (HPLC-DAD and LC-MS/MS)
  • TOC, S automated analysis
  • fluoride, chloride; electrochemical analysis, ion chromatography


Other solid samples

  • analysis of waste materials
  • coal (according to DIN, ISO and ASTM standards)
  • aerosol analyses (filters)
  • purity control of chemicals
  • analyses of geological samples, ash, fly ash...
  • meat meal, bone meal and others


Foodstuffs

  • analysis of chloramphenicol in milk and diary products (LC-MS/MS)
  • analysis of chloramphenicol in meat and meat products (LC-MS/MS)
  • honey (heavy metals, anions, cations)
  • fat, energy values, antioxidants

    Development and optimisation of other specific methods on demand.