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Equipment

Dr. Wang’s laboratory is equipped with the following instruments:

  1. Polar Temp 7 x 12 Refrigerated trailer (-18 oC ~ 10 oC)
  2. 20-Channel Columbus Instruments Micro-Oxymax respirometer equipped with CO2, O2, CH4, and N2O sensors
  3. Sartorius SARTOFLOW® Study Membrane Filtration System
  4. Alfa Laval Clara 20 Clarifier Low Flow Disk Centrifuge Separation System
  5. SHIMADZU liquid and solid TOC analyzers (TOC-LCSN, SSM-5000A)
  6. Thermo Scientific™ IntelliStack™ Incubator Shaker, Single Unit with Down Swing Door
  7. Coy Anaerobic Chamber, Type A, Vinyl
  8. Sartorius™ MA37 Moisture Analyzer
  9. Brookfield Engineer Labs LVDV2T VISCOMETER
  10. 16-Channel Flow Measuring AER-800 Aerobic/Anaerobic Respirometer System with Temp Control between 5-70 °C 
  11. QuantStudio® 3D Digital PCR
  12. Eppendorf RealPlex2 96 well Real-Time PCR System
  13. Eppendorf Centrifuge 5425
  14. NanoDrop One Microvolume UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
  15. Thermo Scientific TSX Series High Performance -20°C Manual Defrost Freezer
  16. Labconco Purifier Logic+ Class II A2 Biosafety Cabinets
  17. Labconco Benchtop FreeZone Legacy 2.5L Freeze-Dry Systems
  18. HANNA HI901C Automatic Potentiometric Titrator
  19. Thermo Scientific Thermolyne Muffle Furnace
  20. 1200°C Compact Split Tube Furnace w/ Vacuum Flanges & 2.36″ Tube, 110V – OTF-1200X-S 
  21. BioTek Synergy™ H1M microplate reader with top and bottom fluorescence intensity, UV-visible absorbance and luminescence detection, temperature control to 45ºC and shaking.
  22. Nikon Eclipse E200 EPI-Fluorescence Microscope
  23. Laser Diffraction Particle Size Analyzer HORIBA LA-950
  24. Parr series 4600 1000 mL Non-stirred Pressure Vessel rated for 1900 psi at up to 225 °C
  25. Parr series 4700 22 mL Non-stirred Pressure Vessel rated for 1700 PSI at up to 300 °C
  26. SHIMADZU GCMS-QP2010 SE with a AOC-20i Auto Injector/Auto Sampler
  27. SHIMADZU Prominence LC-20 HPLC System: CBM-20A, LC-20AD, CTO-20A, RID-10a, CBM-20a, DGU-20a, SIL-10af
  28. Biogas 5000 Portable Analyzer with H2S, H2, CH4, CO2, O2, temperature, and pressure probes
  29. Agilent 8890 Gas Chromatograph system with an autosampler and a Flame Ionization Detector (FID)
  30. HP 5890 Gas Chromatograph with an autosampler and a Flame Ionization Detector (FID)
  31. SHIMADZU  Gas Chromatograph-2014 with a Flame Photometric Detector (FPD) and a Thermal Conductivity Detector (TCD)
  32. TurboVap® II Concentration Evaporator Workstation
  33. Two (2) Multi-Channel auto-sampling Model 305 Astoria-Pacific (A-P) continuous flow chemical analyzers.
  34. VWR Accu Sterilizer AS10NR
  35. -86°C Ultra-Low Temperature Freezer, Fisher Scientific, Isotemp 13 CF 115V
  36. Refrigerated Thermo Scientific Centrifuge Sorvall Legend X1R with F21-48X2 ml and F15 – 8X50 ml carbon fiber rotors and 15 ml conical adapters
  37. Refrigerated Thermo Scientific Sorvall Legend XF Centrifuge with a Fiberlite F15-8 x 50cy Fixed-Angle Rotor and a Fiberlite F21-48 x 2 Fixed-Angle Rotor, as well as adapters for 4X1000 ml and 15mL conical tubes 
  38. OI Model 1030 Total Carbon Analyzer equipped with autosampler
  39. Flash EA Model 112 Soil C-N Analyzer equipped with autosampler
  40. Dionex ICS 1000 Ion Chromatograph equipped with autosampler
  41. Turner Designs Model 700 Flourometer
  42. DR3900 Spectrophotometer with RFID
  43. AutoTrace Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) organics concentration device
  44. OFITE Capillary Suction Timer
  45. Customer design 100 liter complete mixing anaerobic digester with heating – 304 Stainless Steel
  46. Column bioreactors
  47. Volute Dewatering Press PWTech model ES-501
  48. CF016 Cell Assembly, Forward Osmosis, PTFE (CF016P-FO)
  49. 2L Jacketed Glass Reactor Reaction Vessel 100w Digital 0-1200r/min Chemical Lab
  50. Two (2) EXO3 Sonde with a Wiped Conductivity/Temperature Sensor, a Turbidity Sensor, a Optical DO Sensor, and a NitraLED UV Nitrate Sensor
  51. AmmoLyt Plus Ammonium probe complete w/Reference Electrode and System 282 IQ SensorNet Controller
  52. Cambi  5L Thermal Hydrolysis Pretreatment (THP) System