| ESEI Facilities and Laboratories ESEI is located in Engineering Building II on the UCF main campus in Orlando, Florida. It also conducts research at several remote sites on and off the UCF campus. These facilities have included the City of Tampa Water Department, the on-campus Field Lab (CEEFL), and others. Currently, ESEI occupies space in five laboratories on the top floor of EN2: The Drinking Water Laboratory, the Organics Analysis Laboratory, the Chemical/Biological Process Laboratory, the Metals/Inorganics Analysis Laboratory, and the Microbiology Lab. The Drinking Water Laboratory houses equipment that ESEI uses for membrane characterization and performance studies. Flat-sheet test units of two varieties can be found here, along with several bench-scale membrane testing units. Membrane characterization instruments are also housed here. The electrokinetic analyzer measures conductivity across a membrane surface. The goniometer measures the hydrophobicity of a membrane surface. The NPDOC analyzer is also housed here. The Organics Analysis Laboratory contains equipment and bench space used in contaminant analysis. Four gas chromatographs used for a variety of organics determination. An Agilent 6890N is dedicated to THM and HAA analysis. Three Shimadzu GC-14s are available for volatile fatty acids, SOC species, and other analyses. The Process Laboratory serves as a general purpose laboratory for “wet” chemical analyses (like alkalinity and hardness titrations, for example), and a wide array of benchtop instrument measurements (turbidity, conductivity, pH, UV254, true and apparent color, etc.). Softening and coagulation jar testing is also carried out here. This room is also home to one of the two TKN arrays owned by the department. Experimentation on small scale requiring strict environmental control (temperature, humidity) can take place in our environmental chamber. Samples for much of the department’s water research are stored in the walk-in cooler here. The Metals/Inorganics Laboratory is currently equipped with a Unicam/TJA 969 Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer for high-level metals. A Hitachi Z9000 Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer is used here for low-level metals analysis. A Dionex DX-120 Ion Chromatograph provides anion analysis capabilities. The Institute will soon be acquiring an ICP Spectrometer which will improve sensitivity and increase throughput on all inorganic analysis. The Microbiology Laboratory is fitted with a culture hood and equipment to measure HPCs, Coliforms and other biological parameters vital to water analysis. A Shimadzu RF-1501 Fluorimeter, a luminometer, and a Zeiss epifluorescent microscope are key to the function of this laboratory.
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Last update: June 14, 2005 |
Maintained by: Drinking Water Research Team |
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