Mineral & Organic Chemical Analysis (MOCA)
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Technical and scientific expertise
Method development, technical support and advice on interpretation of results
- Pretreatment of biological matrices, soils, waters, plants
- Gas or liquid chromatography
- Analysis of metals, major and trace elements
- C, N and S measurement
Main equipment
- Gas chromatography
- GC with split/splitless or PTV injector and FID detector, ECD for chlorinated compounds, NPD for nitrogen-phosphorus compounds
- GC coupled with mass spectrometry
- Liquid chromatography
- HPLC with DAD (UV-Visible), FLD (fluorimetry), RID (refractometry), ELSD (light diffraction) detector
- UPLC coupled with mass spectrometry
- Ion chromatography
- ICP (inductively coupled plasma)/XRF (X-ray fluorescence)
- ICP-OES optical emission spectrometry
- ICP-MS mass spectrometry
- XRF
- Multicollector MC-ICP-MS for the determination of isotope ratios
- Clean room (classified ISO 6) with controlled atmosphere
- Small equipment: Soxhlet ramp, Ultrawave system (microwave under pressure), Gerhardt mineraliser, Kjeldahl distillation systems, etc.
- Shredding room for the treatment of plants (FOSS cyclotec 1093) and for the sieving and shredding of soils (RETSCH RS200 tungsten carbide disc mill, RETSCH SM200 knife mill)
Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.
Applications
Chemical analysis of mineral and organic constituents in complex matrices, solid, liquid, natural, human-made or synthetic:
- rocks
- soils
- water
- agricultural and forestry products
- biomass
- effluents
- biotechnological and biological matrices
Services available to
- UCLouvain students and researchers
- Non-UCLouvain parties
