The scope of the laboratory’s chemical and microbiology capabilities extends to sampling programs for municipal and industrial wastewater, groundwater, surface water, and saltwater. The laboratory performs work on a routine basis for university students and faculty, private citizens, local communities, counties, and companies. The lab maintains certifications with South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control appropriate to the categories of testing and data usability requirements. The testing capabilities and techniques utilized include traditional wet chemical analysis techniques, classical and state-of-the-art instrumental analysis methods, and field measurements using portable analysis equipment.
Equipment
The laboratory utilizes all equipment as appropriate and necessary for a given technique, as specified in a referenced method, or as required by regulatory programs. The equipment investment and subsequent capabilities of the EQL are sufficient for the laboratory’s chemical and microbiological testing for environmental investigations and research.
Laboratory Equipment List
• Analytical balances
• Atomic absorption spectrophotometers
• Autoclave
• Bench top conductivity meter
• Bench top turbidity meters
• BOD Incubator
• Building water reverse osmosis purifier
• Centrifuge
• CHNS Analyzer
• Circulating water chiller
• Dessicators
• Drying ovens, muffle furnace
• Electrobalance
• Fiber-Optic colorimeters
• Flame AA
• Fluorometer
• Freeze drier
• Fume hoods
• GC-MS with purge and trap
• Graphite furnace AA
• Hach Spectrophotometers
• Incubators
• Inductive salinometer
• Ion chromatograph
• Laboratory water deionizers
• Laminar flow hood
• Lyophilizers and sonicators
• Main water distiller
• Microscope
• Microwave digestor, solvent extractor
• Nitrate reduction columns
• Packed column GC
• pH/ISE meters
• Portable hand-held meters (conductivity, colorimetery, DO, pH, temperature, turbidity)
• Quanti-Tray sealers
• Refrigerators / freezers
• Shatterbox
• Sonicator
• Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer
• Turbovap
• UV Lamp
• Vacuum pumps
• Waterbaths
• YSI 5100 DO meters (for BOD work)
Field Equipment List
• GPS
• Hach Kits which include: conductivity, colorimetery, DO, pH, temperature, and turbidity meters
• Hydrolab Scout H2O multi-parameter water quality meters
• Plankton nets
• Refractometers
• Remote closing water bottles (General Oceanics 1.2 L, 4 L, and 20 L)
• Secchi disks
• Sediment grab sampler
• Sediment gravity corer
• Small boats and motors
• SonTek Flow Tracker
• Submersible pump
• Subsurface remote-closing sterile water sampler
