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| Analytical laboratory
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| Equipment |
Type |
| ICP-OES (metals, S, P, As) |
Perkin Elmer Optima 3300 DV |
2 mass-spectrometers (15N and 13C in soil and plant) |
Anca 20-20/GSL; VG 622 |
flow-injection colorimetry (NO3-/NH4+in water) |
Skalar SA-40 |
| GC-TCD, GC-ECD (gas analyses/on line monitoring possible) |
Shimadzu |
| AAS (metals) |
GBC |
| PCR |
Eppendorf Mastercycler |
| agarose gelelectroforese |
Hybaid electro-4 |
| DGGE |
Ingeny phorU2x2 |
| laminair airflow |
Gera Fietest |
| Ion Chromatography (inorganic anions) |
Dionex QIC (with autosampler) |
| spectrophotometer |
Perkin Elmer Lambda 20 |
| DOC, TC and IC in water |
Skalar |
| 2 plant growth cabinets (walk in) |
Weiss 18'SP/+5JU-Pa |
| autitration unit |
Metrohm 686 Titroprocessor |
| ultrasonic probes (soil dispersion) |
MISONIX XL2020 (500 W) |
| centrifuges |
Centrikon H-401B; Jouan H-401B |
| TC and IC in soil |
Skalar Solid Sample Analyser CA100 |
| miscellaneous:
- 2 incubation rooms (20°C; 25°C) with end-over-end and
horizontal shakers
- access to gamma/beta counting equipment
- equipment for soil texture determination (pipette method according
to ISO 11277:1985(E) )
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| Equipment for field trials |
- soil and groundwater sampling equipment
- car: Mazda 4WD pick-up
- access to experimental farm
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| Equipment for soil physical
and hydrological research |
- equipment for collection of undisturbed soil samples with varying
dimensions up to 0.5 m3 (0.8 m in diameter and 1.0 m in height).
- mobile weather station
- neutron probe
- tensiometers and TDR-monitoring equipment
- drain discharge meter
- suction samplers and multilevel samplers
- soil penetrograph
- field inspection vane tester
- equiprment for double ring infiltrometer technique, inversed
auger hole method, suction infiltrometer approach
- determination of the saturated hydraulic conductivity using
the auger hole or the inversed auger hole technique, the saturated
hydraulic conductivity and the drainable porosity of the shallow
aquifer measuring the drain outflow as a function of the drawn
down of the water table
- single-ring and disc infiltrometers for the saturated and unsaturated
conductivity
- equipment for the water retention characteristic (either 4 or
9 points), the saturated hydraulic conductivity and the relationship
between the hydraulic conductivity and the soil water content
(using the multistep method and crust-infiltrometer method)
- equipment for the determination of the geometry and distribution
of macro-pores and cracks in soils
- stream-tube model, stochastic-convective solute transport model,
mobile-immobile model, multiphase flow and the transport parameters
(diffusion, dispersion, preferential flow)
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