GAS AND GROUNDWATER CHEMISTRY AND ISOTOPE LABORATORY
ITER’s Chemistry and Isotope Laboratory of Gases and Groundwater is a scientific-technological infrastructure designed for the chemical and isotopic characterization of gases and groundwater, as well as other environmental matrices.
The laboratory has the following equipment:
Laboratory instrumentation
- VARIAN 4900 and VARIAN 490 portable dual-channel gas microchromatographs with TCD detector
- Portable dual-channel gas microchromatograph model VARIAN 2003P with TCD detector
- Gas chromatograph VARIAN 3800 with TCD and FID detectors
- VARIAN 3900 gas chromatograph with TCD detector
- VARIAN Saturn 2000 gas-mass chromatograph with ion trap analyzer
- Liquid Chromatograph DIONEX 500DX
- Liquid Chromatograph METROHM 861 Advanced Compac IC
- Automatic titrator METROHM 716 DMS Titrino
- Perkin Elmer Optima 3300DV ICP
- Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer MAT 253
- Noble gas mass spectrometer HELIX SFT
- Pfeiffer Omnistar 422 quadrupole mass spectrometers model Pfeiffer Omnistar 422
Instrumentation for field work
- Portable equipment for CO2 and H2S diffuse flux measurement equipped with a portable infrared spectrophotometer model LICOR LI-800 and an ALPHASENSE H2S electrochemical sensor.
- Portable mercury vapor analyzer model JEROME 431-X
- Portable Hydrogen Sulfide Analyzer Model JEROME 631-X
- SARAD portable radon gas detector model RTM2010-2
- FLIR IR Thermal Camera Model P65
- Portable remote optical sensors for environmental quality studies and volcanic-hydrothermal gas emissions.
- Correlation spectrometer (COSPEC IV and V)
- Optical Differential Absorption Spectrometer (UVDOAS)
- Miniaturized Optical Differential Absorption Spectrometer (miniDOAS)
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
- Adjustable diode laser gas sensor (TDL)
- Network of 13 geochemical stations installed in the Canary Islands to measure gases and volatiles
- Network of 10 geodetic stations in the Canary Islands for deformation measurement
- Network of 8 webcams for volcano monitoring installed in Tenerife
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