{"id":52,"date":"2016-04-25T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2016-06-01T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:27:13","slug":"research-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/research\/research-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>1. ELEMENTAL AND MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (Varian, Australia)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer ICP-MS Agilent 7700<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Elementar Vario Macro Cube for CHNS analysis (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">TOC\/TNb analyzer Vario TOC Cube (Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Trace and ultra-trace mercury analyzer DMA\u201380 Tricell (Milestone)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Portable mercury vapour analyser JEROME 431-X<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Spectro Xepos X-ray fluorescence spectrometer model XEPO3 (Spectro Analytical Instruments, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">D8 Advance XRD diffractometer (Bruker, Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b> 2. MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Scanning electron microscope FE MIRA 3 (TESCAN, Czech Republic) equipped with energy dispersive and wavelength dispersive X-ray microanalysis system (EDX, WDX \u2013 Oxford Instruments)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Fluorescence microscope LEICA DM 6000<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Optical microscope Nikon Eclypse 400<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">UV-VIS spectrophotometer Helios Gamma (Thermo Electron Corporations, Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">PC1 &#8211; Photon Couting Spectrofluorimeter (ISS, USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">FTIR Spectrometer Tensor 27 (Bruker Optik GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Portable spectrometer DR 1900 with thermal reactor DRB 200 (Hach Lange GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>3. CHROMATOGRAPHY<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Liquid chromatograph UHPLC Dionex Ultimate 3000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., USA) with DAD detector and mass spectrometer Q-TOF (micrOTOF-Q II\u2122 Bruker Daltonics, GmbH, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Two-channel ion chromatograph Dionex ICS 5000<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">GC-MS gas chromatograph Agilent 7890A with mass spectrometer Agilent 5975C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>4. SURFACE AND PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Surface area and pore size Analyzer Quantachrome NOVA 1200e (Quantachrome Instruments, USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gemini 2360 (Micromeritics, USA) <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Zetasizer Nano ZS (Malvern, Great Britain)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Diffraction Spectrometer Helos 12 LA with a wet dispersion unit Rodos (Sympatec, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Nanophox Particle Sizer &#8211; Photon Cross Correlation Spectrometer (Sympatec, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Particle size, volume and number distribution analyzer Beckman Coulter \u00ae Multisizer IV (Beckman Coulter, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>5. THERMAL ANALYSIS AND PROCESSES<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Thermal analyzer STA 449 F3 Jupiter and mass spectrometer QMS 403 C A\u00ebolos (Netzsch, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory tube oven operating at different atmospheres (maximum temperature 1200 \u00b0C)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Muffle oven CE-4 (maximum temperature 1150 \u00b0C) <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">High-temperature laboratory chamber furnace VP 02\/16 (LAC, Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>6. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Microfluidic chip bioanalyzer Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Real-Time PCR (Q-PCR) system Light Cycler 2.0 Roche<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Electrophoresis for the PCR products separation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Gel documentation system<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">BBL Crystal Bacterial Identification System (Becton-Dickinson, USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">SureCycler 8800 Thermal cycler (Agilent)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Thermal cycler Techne<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Flow-through respirometric equipment for the measurements of metabolic activity with paramagnetic oxygen analyzer PA-10A (Sable Systems, USA), carbon dioxide analyzer with IR sensor (Sable Systems, USA) and eight-channel gas multiplexer RM-8 (Sable Systems, USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Bioreactors &#8211; anaerobic and aerobic bacterial cultivation<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory autoclave Tuttnauer<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Aseptic box Biosan<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Aseptic box Fatran<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Biological thermostats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>7. MAGNETIC PROPERTIES ANALYSES<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Kappabridge KLY-2 for magnetic susceptibility measurements (Geofyzika, Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Dielectric permittivity measuring instrument MP-1 with generator HM8135 3GHz HF Synthesizer and Spectrum Analyzer HM 5530<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>8. GEOTECHNICS<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>8.1 Experimental devices<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">experimental horizontal laboratory drilling rig for rotary drilling with bits of diameters up to 70 mm with automated systems of control and monitoring, designed and constructed at the IGT SAS<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">4-channel dynamometer and multichannel amplifier Kistler for multi-component force measurement during drilling (3 force components and torque)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">accelerometers and automated system Adash 3900-II for monitoring of the vibration acceleration during drilling, installed on the drilling rig<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>8.2 Equipment for characterization of strength, deformation and technological properties of rocks<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>experimental press INSTRON 1000 RD (load up to 5 MN) for testing the strength and deformation characteristics of rocks<\/li>\n<li>Point Load Tester PLT-100 (GCTS) for measurement of the point load strength of rocks<\/li>\n<li>Schmidt hammer SilverSchmidt PC\/N (Proceq) for measurement of rock rebound hardness correlated to the UCS and standardized according to the European standard EN 12504-2: 2012<\/li>\n<li>CERCHAR abrasionmeter (ErgoTech) for measurement of rock abrasiveness by\u00a0CERCHAR methodology<\/li>\n<li>abrasionmeter for measurement of pin rock abrasiveness\u00a0according to the Slovak technical norm ON 441121, designed and constructed at IGT SAS<\/li>\n<li>LCPC abrasionmeter for determination of rock abrasiveness according to the LCPC methodology, designed and constructed at IGT SAS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>8.3 Equipment for preparation of testing samples<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Circular saws for the preparation of rock samples<\/li>\n<li>Grinders and sanders for preparation of rock samples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>8.4 Experimental data processing software and hardware<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>automated systems for monitoring of laboratory experiments and for the field in-situ conditions<\/li>\n<li>software application of own design for management, visualization, data collection and archiving of data from laboratory drilling rig<\/li>\n<li>DynoWare 5825 software for the monitoring, analysis and visualization of signals from Kistler dynamometer<\/li>\n<li>vibro-diagnostic software DDS 2007 for analysis of vibration signals monitored by accelerometers<\/li>\n<li>IBM\/Oracle database server for storage and distribution of experimental data from the laboratory drilling rig<\/li>\n<li>MATLAB software for mathematical modelling and analysis, Simulink, Fuzzy Logic Toolbox, MATLAB Builder for Excel, MATLAB Compiler, Signal Processing Blockset, Signal Processing Toolbox, Statistics Toolbox Version, System Identification Toolbox<\/li>\n<li>remote access to powerful computing systems MATLAB and COMSOL Multiphysics in national data centre project for science and research, and national infrastructure for technology transfer in Slovakia \u2013 CVTI<\/li>\n<li>Adobe CS6 Design software for image processing and image analysis<\/li>\n<li>OriginPro 9.0 software for analysis of experimental data<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Office, Analyse-It for Excel \u2013 statistical software<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>9. MINERAL PROCESSING<\/b><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>9.1 Crushing, Milling and Classifying <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Planetary mill Pulverisette 7 Premium Line (Fritsch, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Planetary mill Pulverisette 6 Classic Line (Fritsch, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Stirred ball mill Attritor Molinex PE\/075 (Netzsch, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Circulation mill MiniCer (Netzsch, Germany)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Cryomill Freezer Mill SPEX 6870 (CertiPrep, USA)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Jaw crusher PS D-160<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Roll crusher<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory biomass crusher FDV<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Vibrating jaw grinder V\u010cM-3<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Jewel vibrating pulverizer KM-1<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Universal laboratory ball and bar mill LP (porcelain, metallic)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Attrition mill<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Vibrating mill VM-1 (KSMH-Hranice)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Air classifier Alpine 100MRZ<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Vibrating classifier TE-III<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Sample splitters RT 6.5 (Retsch)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Vibratory sieve shaker AS 200 (Retsch)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Different mesh size of sieves from 40 \u00b5m to 50 mm<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Mesh size of sieves for microclassifying in ultrasonic bath from 5 to 45 \u00b5m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>9.2 Physical Separation<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Pilot hydrocyclone station<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">High-intensity magnetic separator MECHANOBR<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Low-intensity magnetic separator LAURILA<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Universal laboratory magnetic separator JONES<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Magnetohydrostatic separator MHR-1 (separation in ferrofluid)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Magnetohydrostatic separator FGS-2 (separation in ferrofluid)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Electrostatic corona separator STURTEVANT &#8211; O.H.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>10. DEVICES FOR PARTICULATE MATTERS SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Programmable automatic samplers with accessories for sampling of particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5, TSP) and pollutants in ambient air (Digitel DH77, Echo High Volume Tecora, Leckel MVS6, Bravo Tecora PM)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Personal samplers with accessories for air sampling in the working environment (Apex Casella)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Portable laser aerosol spectrometer Grimm 1109<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<b>11. OTHER LABORATORY EQUIPMENT<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Microwave ovens Panasonic NN 5251B (900 W, 2450 MHz), Panasonic NE-3240 (1800W, 2450 MHz), Whirlpool AVM 434 &#8211; modified (850 W, 2450 MHz)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Microwave generator MWG3K-08<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Microwave decomposition system MWS-3 (Berghof)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory drying oven Ecocell<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory drying oven Venticell<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory vacuum drying oven Vacucell<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Rotary vacuum evaporator INGOS<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Centrifuge Mikro 200 R with cooling<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Centrifuge Rotina 380 (Hettich)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Centrifuge MPW 310<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Apparatus for vacuum filtration of atmospheric deposition samples<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Electrolytic apparatus (electro-chemical degradation of organic pollutants)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Titration workstations TitraLab\u00ae854 (Radiometer Analytical)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Water polishing system Elga-PureLab-Option + Elga PureLab-Ultra for preparation of 18.2M\u03a9 ultrapure water<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Mohr\u00b4s balance for determination of heavy liquids density<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Moisture meter GREISINGER GHH91 (powdered materials, wood) with correcting thermometer and humidity meter GFTH95 (ambient air)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Contactless thermometer Raytek<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Teslameter Tesla 706509 <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">pH meters<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Densitometers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Analytical scales<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Laboratory shakers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Magnetic stirrers<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Power ultrasound homogenizer<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ultrasonic bath Tesla <\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ultrasonic bath Fritsch<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Water bath LAZNIA LW-4<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Digestors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. ELEMENTAL AND MINERALOGICAL ANALYSIS Atomic Absorption Spectrometer (Varian, Australia) Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer ICP-MS Agilent 7700 Elementar Vario Macro Cube for CHNS analysis&#8230;<span class=\"excerpt_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/research\/research-infrastructure\/\">\u010d\u00edta\u0165 \u010falej &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/453"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugt.saske.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}