ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma)

Model:

Q-ICP-MS XSeries2 (Thermo Fisher Scientific) with FAST System

Description:

During the last decades inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) became the most common analytical device in trace element detection. It offers very low detection limits and hence enables us to measure from some parts per billion (ppt or e.g. ng/l) to a parts per million (ppm or e.g. mg/l) level detecting several elements in the same run (multi element detection). Additionally ICP-MS coupled to other analytical devices (e.g. high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) or gas chromatography (GC)) delivers a high variability in element speciation at low detection limits (e.g. As(III) vs. As(V) speciation). At the institute for environmental sciences in addition to the GC and the HPLC coupling an ETV coupling is established.

At the moment in the working group environmental and soil chemistry the quadrupole with collision cell based XSeries2 is used to deal with the following environmental topics:

-  Detection of trace contaminants in environmental matrices (e.g. arsenic and cadmium in soils, surface and ground waters, sediments, sludge, plants and invertebrates, NANOZERO)

- Quantification of macro constituents in soils, plants and invertebrates (e.g. Al, Fe, Mn, Na, Mg, REPELL-OM CROSSLINK )

-  Chemical speciation of As, Ge, Hg, Sb, Sn, Te (Project under evaluation).

-  Speciation concerning the bonding form of metal(loid)s in the environment (Project under evaluation).

-  Validation of ecotoxicity tests (Environmental Sciences)

-  Behavior and fate of metal(loid)oxid and metal(loid) nano particles in the environment (NANOZERO)

Analytical devices for coupling:

ETV

Landau CII 007

+49 6341 280 31 585 Büro

azeroual at uni-landau.de

GC (Thermo)

Landau CII 007

+49 6341 280 31 585 Büro

azeroual at uni-landau.de

HPLC (Agilent)

Instumentelle Analytik
(Arbeitsgruppe Umwelt- und Bodenchemie)

Landau CII 007

+49 6341 280 31 567 Büro

diehl at uni-landau.de