Laboratory equipment

  • Ball mill – milling material samples
  • Muffle furnace
  • Laboratory dryers
  • Mechanical stirrers
  • Ion chromatographs – determining primary inorganic anions (PO4 3–, SO42– , NO2, NO3, Cl, F) and cations ( Na+,K+,Ca2+ ,Mg2+, NH4+)
  • Atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) – analyser used for qualitative and quantitative determination of elements (primarily metals) in various matrices
  • Mercury analyser – determining the mercury content in solid and liquid samples
  • ICP-OES spectrometer – inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry. The ICP technique is very sensitive (on the ppb level). At our laboratory, it is used to determine metals in samples of fertilisers, water, wastewater and ash
  • Laboratory shakers
  • Sieve shakers (vibratory screen) – granulometric analysis of materials and finished products
  • Refrigerator and incubator, climate chamber
  • Autoclave
  • Technical and precision laboratory scales
  • Centrifuges
  • Laboratory compactor – for tests of the compactibility of materials and their mixtures
  • Automatic nitrogen distillation system
  • UV-VIS spectrometer – a device for the quantitative determination of phosphates, boron, iron and water analysis, among others
  • Flame photometer – a device using the flame method for K, Na, Ca and Li analysis
  • pH meters
  • Optical microscope
  • Mortar mill – for the grinding and homogenisation of samples