Exposures and Environmental Analyses Facility Core
Equipment and Facilities
The six laboratories in this Core contain the following equipment (listed by lab):
Organic Chemistry Lab
Hewlett Packard Gas Chromatograph with Electron Capture Detector; Hewlett Packard GC/Mass Selective Detector and Perkin-Elmer Automatic Thermal Desorption Unit; Hewlett Packard Gas Chromatograph with Mass Selective Detector and Micro Electron Capture Detector; Agilent Gas Chromatograph with dual injector, dual capillary column, and dual Micro Electron Capture Detector; Equatherm High Temperature Oven & Fisher Drying Oven; IEC Centra GP8 Centrifuge; Lab Line Water Bath & Orbit Shaker; Muffle Furnace; N-Evap Nitrogen Evaporator; Tekmar Tissuemizer and Electronic Balance; Branson 5200 Ultrasonic Cleaner; WR Flammable Storage Freezer; Agilent High Pressure Liquid chromatograph with UV-VWD (1999) and Chemstation Software; Agilent High Pressure Liquid chromatograph with Fluorescence Detector (2000) and Chemstation Software; SPE Apparatus; Nitrogen Blowdown Unit; Agilent Gas Chromatograph (2001) with µElectron Capture Detector and Chemstation Software; In-house-built Automated Thermal Desorption Unit; Bruker water bath; Gas Chromatograph (packed column) with Flame Ionization Detector (FID); Hewlett-Packard Photodiode Array Spectrophotometer with autosampler; Beckman DU Spectrophotometer with Gilson detector update; Ultrasonic Cleaner; and Industrial Hygiene/Occupational Health Monitors, Instruments, and Sampling Devices for chemical, aerosol, noise, and ventilation determinations.
Inorganic Chemistry Lab
Orion Model 611 pH Meter; Dionex Model DX120 ion chromatograph; Dionex Model 4000i ion chromatograph; Mettler Model MT5 electronic microbalance; Millipore Corp. Milli-Q Model OM-140 water purification system; Millipore Corp. Milli-Q Model OM-154 water purification system; Spectronic Instruments Model 410 visible spectrophotometer; Mettler Model AC100 electronic balance; and Diffusion Systems, LTD. model M43D Smokestain Reflectometer.
Environmental Microbiology Lab
Olympus Stereo Microscope; Olympus BH-2 Microscope with teaching head; Two Olympus BX50 Phase Contrast and Polarizing Microscope with Digital Imaging capabilities; Perkin Elmer Geno Amp, PCR; ThermoAndersen Hi-Vol particulate sampler; Virtis Lyophilizer; Sonicator; Molecular Devices OptiMax Microtitre Plate reader; Freezer (-80 C); Two Mettler semi-analytical balances; and Castle Autoclave.
Aerosol Properties Lab
Anderson Continuous Ambient Mass Monitor (CAMM); Rupprecht & Patashnick Model 1400A Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance; (TEOM)(continuous non-volatile particle mass concentration); Magee Scientific Model 8021 Aethelometer (continuous black carbon); TSI Model 3020 Aerosol Particle Sizer (APS); TSI Model 3320 Aerosol Particle Sizer (APS); TSI Model 3934L Scanning Mobility Particle Sampler (SMPS) (includes Model 3010); Condensation Particle Counter [CPC]; TSI Model 3022 Condensation Particle Counter [CPC] (two instruments); TSI Model 8520 DustTrak (continuous particle number concentration); TSI Model 100 Micro-orifice Impactor; (HSPH-Custom built) High Volume Low Cutpoint Impactor (HVLI); URG Model 2000-2 Harvard EPA Annular Denuder Systems (HEADS); (HSPH-Custom built) Honeycomb Denuder Systems (HDS); ADE Inc. Model MS&T Harvard Impactors (PM2.5 and PM10 for both 4 and 10 LPM flows)(HI's); Particle Generators; Langan CO Monitors; Condensation Nuclei Counters; Dust-Trak particle monitor; TEI 42C NO/NOx monitor; TEI 48C CO analyzer; TEI 146C calibrator; TEI 49PC calibrator; TEI 43C SO2 analyzer; TSI Model 3400A Fluidized Bed Aerosol Generator; and TSI Model 3076 Constant Output Atomizer.
Metals/Aquatic Lab
Perkin Elmer 6100 ICP-MS with a Dynamic Reaction Cell (DRC); Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer; Perkin Elmer 2400 CHN Analyzer; HPLC system to interface with the ICP-MS (for metal speciation studies); Teflon sub-boiling distillation blocks for high purity acids; CETAN MCN 6000 De-solvating Microconcentric Nebulizer; Barnstead Nano-pure water distillation system; and Quartz sub-boiling still for high purity water.
Inhalation Lab
Rupprecht & Patashnick Model 1400A Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM)(continuous non-volatile particle mass concentration); Magee Scientific Model 8021 Aethelometer (continuous black carbon); TSI Model 3020 Aerosol Particle Sizer (APS); TSI Model 3934L Scanning Mobility Particle Sampler (SMPS); TSI Model 100 Micro-orifice Impactor; TECO Model 3022A Condensation Particle Counter (CPC); TECO Model 48 Non-Dispersive Infra-red Continuous Ambient Carbon Monoxide Monitor (CO Monitor); (HSPH-Custom built) High Volume Low Cutpoint Impactor (HVLI); (HSPH-Custom built) Honeycomb Denuder Systems (HDS); a wide variety of flow measurement and calibration instruments; Ozone generators and analyzers; CO, CO2, and NOx analyzers; BUXCO Respiratory Pattern Measurement System; and 2 Harvard Ambient Particle Concentrators.