Tag Archives: Environmental Analysis

Formaldehyde in Air Automation – Project Update

Project Update A few months ago I issued an invitation for, anyone with anĀ interest, to be involved in a new project to automate the analysis of formaldehyde (and other carbonyl compounds) in air. We are developing the hardware needed to … Continue reading

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Labratory Evaluation of ATOMX Purge & Trap System

I Just thought I’d share with you my recent experience with the Teledyne Tekmar ATOMX. The Purge and Trap market in the UK has been quiet for some time, with most clients using headspace for VOC analysis due to the … Continue reading

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A New Automated Approach for Testing Contaminated Soil?

Earlier I mentioned that we had developed a new Robotic Centrifuge which we had used in the development of our plant Metabolomics sample preparation workstation and Automated QuEChERS clean-up workstation solutions. Well, if we could only develop a version of … Continue reading

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Time to Change the Way you Extract Water Samples?

If you are an environmental analyst workin with GC-MS, sample preparation by solid phase extraction is an attractive alternative to liquid-liquid extraction when working with water samples. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work out in practice. There are a number of … Continue reading

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