Underground gases and water chemistry and isotopes laboratory
ITER’s Underground Gases and Water Chemistry and Isotopes Laboratory is a scientific and technological facility designed for the chemical and isotopic characterisation of underground gases and water, as well as of other environmental matrices.
The laboratory features the following equipment:
Laboratory instrumentation:
- Portable dual-channel gas microchromatographs Varian 4900 and Varian 490 with TCD detector.
- Portable dual-channel gas microchromatograph Varian 2003P with TCD detector.
- Gas chromatograph Varian 3800 with TCD and FID detectors.
- Gas chromatograph Varian 3900 with TCD detector.
- Varian Saturn 2000 ion trap gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy system.
- Liquid chromatograph Dionex 500DX.
- Liquid chromatograph Metrohm 861 Advanced Compac IC.
- Automatic titrator Metrohm 716 DMS Titrino.
- ICP spectrometer Perkin Elmer Optima 3300DV.
- Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer Thermo Scientific MAT 253.
- Noble gas mass spectrometer Thermo Scientific Helix SFT.
- Quadrupole mass spectrometer Pfeiffer Omnistar 422.
Fieldwork instrumentation
- Portable diffuse flux meter for CO2 and H2S, featuring a portable infrared spectrophotometer, model LICOR LI-800, and an ALPHASENSE H2S electrochemical sensor.
- Portable mercury vapour analyser, model JEROME 431-X.
- Portable hydrogen sulfide analyser, model JEROME 631-X
- Portable radon detector, model SARAD RTM2010-2
- IR thermal-imaging camera, model FLIR P65
- Portable remote optical sensors for monitoring air quality and volcanic-hydrothermal gas emissions.
- Correlation spectrometer (COSPEC IV and V)
- Differential optical absorption spectrometer (UVDOAS)
- Miniaturized differential optical absorption spectrometer (miniDOAS)
- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR)
- Tunable diode laser (TDL) gas sensor.
- A network of 13 geochemical stations across the Canary Islands for analysing gases and volatile substances.
- A network of 10 geodetic triangulation stations across the Canaries for monitoring ground deformation.
- A network of 8 volcano-monitoring webcams installed in Tenerife.