Research and teaching laboratories
High-tech analytics and an interdisciplinary laboratory concept offer a wide range of testing options
Our interdisciplinary laboratory concept offers a wide range of methods for sample preparation and physical, chemical as well as microscopic analysis facilities for various environmental media.
Samples of solid and unconsolidated rocks, ground and surface waters as well as soils can be analysed in our laboratories.
instruments
| Sample preparation | |
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| Jawcrusher | Suited for preliminary crushing solid rocks and minerals |
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Vibratory Disc Mill
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Suitable for rapid, loss-free grinding of hard, brittle and fibrous materials to analytical fineness |
| Laboratory Muffle Furnace | Laboratory Muffle furnace for annealing processes and heat treatment at high temperatures |
| Analytical sieve Shaker | Particle size determination, separation, fractioning |
| Abrasiveness tester according to LCPC | Abrasivity determination of loose rock (bedrock) |
| Cleanbench | Preparation for micro- and nanoplastic analysis |
| Centrifuge | Separation for micro- and nanoplastic analysis |
| Physical analytical methods | |
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| Permeability testing system | Permeability tests under triaxial conditions |
| Freeze-Thaw-Change test | Investigation of freeze-thaw resistance |
| Permeability test | Determination of the saturated hydraulic conductivity |
| Gas pyknometer | Gas pycnometer for the determination of the pure density of solids, powders and drill core segments |
| Hydraulic test press | Single-axis and split tensile tests |
| Thermal conductivity meters | Determination of thermal conductivity |
| Calorimeter | Determination of the specific heat capacity |
| Permeability test | Determination of the saturated hydraulic conductivity |
| Evaporation test | Determination of the water retention function and the hydraulic conductivity |
| Dew point potentiometer | Determination of the water retention function under dry conditions |
| Climate test chamber | Laboratory climate test chamber |
| Geothermal responce test | Heating and temperature measurements on fibre optic cables on geothermal probes |
| Laboratory stirrers | Digestion of building material suspensions |
| Uniaxial compression testing machines | Universal test press up to 25kN and 60 kN |
| Triaxial testing cell | Temperature-controlled triaxial test cell |
| Ultrasonic measuring system | Determination of the P-wave velocity |
| Lysimeter | Determination of soil water balance variables |
| Fluxer | Electric fusion digestion unit |
| Chemical analytical methods | |
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| µFTIR | Fourier transform infrared spectrometer for microplastic analysis |
| Ion chromatography – IC | Analysis and quantification of chemical complexes, anions and cations |
| ICP-MS | Element and isotope analysis |
| AAS | Quantitative and qualitative elemental analysis (metals and semimetals) |
| TOC Analyzer | Carbon analyser |
| Isotope Analyzer | Analysis of stable water isotopes |
| GC/MS | Analysis of individual chemical compounds from separate organic substance mixtures |
| P&T-GC/MS | Analysis of stable isotopes of halogenated organic compounds (37Cl, 81Br) |
| GC/FID-C-IRMS | Analysis of stable isotopes of organic compounds (13C, 18O) |
| Microscopic analytical methods | |
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| Research microscopy Leica DMRX | Transmitteld light, reflected light and fluorescence microscopy |
| Polarisation microscopy | Heavy mineral separation, palynology and micropalaeontology |
| Stereomicroscope | Heavy mineral separation, palynology and micropalaeontology |
| Field instruments | |
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| Sampling | Equipment for taking solid or aqueous environmental samples |
| Probing | Indirect and direct exploratory procedures |
| Field data | Sensors |
