Reducing environmental hazards
Environmental chemistry focuses on the presence and impact of chemicals in soil, surface water and groundwater. The more we understand about the environmental impacts of these chemicals, the better we can develop tools and strategies to minimise and remove their harms.
Our Environmental Chemistry Analysis Laboratory (ECAL) allows students, researchers and businesses to identify and analyse chemicals and biochemicals in air, soil and water.
The Environmental Chemistry Analysis Laboratory (ECAL) holds British Assessment Bureau ISO 9001:2008 accreditation.
Equipment and amenities
- EquSEAL Analytical QuAAtro autoanalyser
- Spectror competitive aroblue Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer
- Thermo Flash 2000 Carbon Hydrogen Nitrogen and Sulphur analyser
- Trilogy Fluorometer
- Conductivity, temperature and depth Sondes
- Agilent Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometer
- Agilent 6400 series Triple Quad Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry
- MARS Microwave Assisted Digester
Our equipment can identify and analyse substances including:
- Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulphur
- Elemental analysis including metals
- Chlorophyll and pheophytin
- Nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, dissolved silicon and ammonium
- Water quality and physico-chemical properties
- Organic compounds such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids
Contact us
If you're from a business, university or other organisation and would like to use our analytical chemistry and consultancy services, please contact us by emailing ecal@port.ac.uk.
Related facilities
Mineral Separation Laboratory
Explore our Mineral Separation Laboratory, where we separate and pick crystal grains from crushed rock for Palynology slides to help us understand how the earth was formed and tackle climate change.
Geochemistry Laboratory
Trace Earth and environmental processes in this lab, using techniques including palynology processing – the study of strewn particles – for acid dissolutions of rock matrices, sample sieving and heavy liquid separation.
Where to find us
Environmental Chemistry Analysis Lab
Burnaby Building
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3QL