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Main Labs
Research Lab 1: Resource recovery from wastewater, geoenvironmental engineering, storm water treatment (1301J)
Research Lab 2: Microbial ecology, drinking water treatment, emerging contaminants (1306)
Research Lab 3: Membrane technologies (1304)
Research Lab 4: Flex Space (1301)
Instrument Labs
Analytical Room 1
Analytical Room 2
Equipment
Analytical Room 1
Thermo Scientific TSQ AltisLCMS/MS – Quantitation of small molecules – Trace organic compounds, emerging contaminants
Agilent 7850 ICP-MS – Quantitation of metals in water, soil and sediment
Sievers M5310C Total Organic Carbon Analyzer – Drinking water quality determination
Shimadzu TOC-L Total Organic Carbon Analyzer – Storm water, low to high TDS water quality determination
Agilent 6890 GC-FID – Quantitation of volatile fatty acids
Lachat Flow Injection Analyzer – Nutrient analysis of water samples
Analytical Room 2
Thermo Scientific UHPLC + Orbitrap Exploris 240 HiRes Mass Spectrometer – Quantitation of small molecules, suspect screening and non-target analysis
Oxford Instruments MFP-3D Origin+ Atomic Force Microscope – High resolution microscopic imaging, surface morphology, roughness and stiffness measurement
Flex Space
Dionex Ion Chromatograph – Quantitation of anion and cation species in water
Thermo Scientific iS50 FT-IR Spectrometer – Identification of composition of solids and liquids
Low Pressure UV Collimated Beam System 1
Low Pressure UV Collimated Beam System 2
Oriel® Sol3A™ Class AAA Solar Simulator
Echo Fluorescence Microscope – Transmitted light or fluorescence microscopy
Thermo Scientific NanoDrop One UV-Vis – Micro-volume analysis of purified nucleic acids, variety of proteins and other UV-Vis absorbing molecules
CIRS Building
The CIRS piloting facilities enables investigations at larger scale as well as research in urban water and resource recovery
The CIRS building and annex laboratory is a state-of-the art facility designed to advance the technological development of sustainable technologies that ‘close the loop’ on carbon, nutrients, and water in an urban campus context. The annex laboratory enables pilot scale investigations to:
develop technological innovations essential to eliminate energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment,
recover high-value products from wastewater, greywater, and solid waste – such as biofuels, nutrients for use as renewable fertilizers, and water of reusable quality,
evaluate sustainable technologies for treating rainwater collected from the roof,
generate a knowledge base of sustainable building-level water management to inform future construction and development projects.
