空气与水产资源工程与科学中心

空气与水产资源工程与科学中心

应对复杂的环境挑战

The 空气与水产资源工程与科学中心 aims to provide a better and more complete scientific basis for air and water quality management. 我们努力了解资料来源, 导致接触污染物的运输和化学反应, their potential health and welfare effects and ways in which these effects can be reduced or eliminated.

CAARES汇集了世界一流的专业知识, 专注于空气和水的传感, 抽样, 理化分析, fate and transport 建模 and the application of computational fluid dynamics to air and water pollution problems.

除了, 我们正在开发新的监测系统, 建模, measurement and flow management tools that can provide critical information to state and federal regulatory authorities that will help to improve environmental quality.

最近的研究

空气污染

The presence of contaminants in the atmosphere can produce a wide variety of adverse effects, 包括:

  • 公众死亡率和发病率增加.
  • 建筑物和纪念碑老化.
  • 湖泊和河流酸化.
  • 森林和作物损失.

The adverse health effects of atmospheric contaminants cannot be avoided by staying inside, 因为周围的空气和污染物一起被输送到室内, 而室内污染源也会加剧这一问题. 虽然在过去的30年里,我们已经大大改善了环境空气质量, 许多归因于空气污染的问题仍然存在. Recent studies have found strong correlations between changes in particle concentrations and increased mortality. 此外,儿童哮喘的发病率也急剧上升.

五大湖鱼类监测和监视计划

这个程序, 20世纪70年代开始对一个项目进行修订, 监测五大湖的鱼类污染物. 我们简化了抽样, and additional emphasis has been placed on identifying emerging contaminants that may pose a risk to the Great Lakes.

esball国际平台客户端从2005年开始运营这个项目. We have modernized legacy pollutant measurements by developing efficient sample processing and analysis procedures. 改进包括:

  • 降低检测限.
  • 在分析物列表中添加额外的化学物质.
  • 扫描和识别新的污染物.
  • 包括对鱼卵的常规分析.

We have enhanced the program by developing working relationships with laboratories from other federal agencies, 州和国家.

esball国际平台客户端caar

了解更多esball国际平台客户端我们研究中心的努力和合作:

合作伙伴

CAARES interacts with the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems and other institutions, 比如康奈尔大学, 罗切斯特大学, 州立大学ESF分校和州立大学奥尔巴尼分校. 虽然每个机构都有自己的研究任务, 我们可以利用一些重要的交叉点来构建一个综合的, 专注于空气质量问题的全国性研究中心.

通过增强现有能力和建立积极的协作联盟, we provide critical new information on air resources and innovative new approaches for managing indoor and outdoor air quality within a competitive economic environment.

CAARES设备和设施

CAARES拥有许多主要仪器的分析设施, 以及专门设计用于支持研究的实验室空间. The major types of instruments are liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) systems, including a triple quad for targeted analyses and QToF for full scan non-targeted analyses, 气相色谱-质谱联用(GC-MS)系统, including a 4-D gas chromatograph/high-resolution mass spectrometer and an inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) system.

CAARES also houses a wide range of instrumentation and facilities for aerosol research, 包括粒子光谱仪(TSI APS), TSI smp, TSI fmp, DMT UHSAS和DMT FM-100), 气溶胶发生器(雾化器), 电喷雾和给尘器), 低成本网状网络传感器(PM和气体)和气溶胶风洞.

功能

可提供热电子ICP-MS XSeries II系统. 创新无限离子透镜光学, 基于一种六极设计,带有弯离子偏转器, 提供任何四极ICP-MS的最低背景规格. 该系统已广泛用于空气过滤器的分析, 土壤,沉积物和生物样本.

Mass concentrations are measured by gravimetry using a Sartorius MC5 microbalance in our temperature- and humidity-controlled class 1000 clean room. We continuously monitor the temperature and relative humidity to ensure compliance with 40 CFR Part 50 Appendix L requirements for the 24-hour equilibration of the filter before and after exposure to ambient aerosols.

Our SciEx X500B QTOF high-resolution Quadrupole Time-of-Flight (QTOF) system provides full-scan data for suspect screening and non-targeted analysis.

A Thermo Vanquish LC coupled to a Thermo Altis triple quadrupole mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization (ESI) source is used for both accredited and nonaccredited analysis of PFAS.

最先进的, HEPA-filtered aerosol wind tunnel with a cross-section of three feet by four feet and test wind speeds ranging from 0.5 - 15 m/s可供CAARES研究人员和外部合作者使用. The tunnel is fitted with a novel moving aerosol injection system and an aerosol sensor array that combine to ensure uniform aerosol concentrations over the entire cross-section of the tunnel.

传统的

We have numerous conventional GC-MS systems with a variety of sample introduction inlets, including headspace analysis and preconcentration systems for SUMMA canisters and Tenax traps.

多维气相色谱法

我们的最新产品是leo Pegasus 4D GCxGC-TOFMS. This state-of-the-art system combines comprehensive gas chromatography with the exact mass resolution of a Pegasus HT TOFMS. This instrument is used for analyzing complex samples, primarily for emerging contaminants.

Xevo TQ-XS带APGC

Xevo TQ-XS APGC enables detection limits at ultra-trace levels to allow compliance with regulatory limits and the ability to inject less sample matrix, 减少污染的影响.

无机

在样品被分析之前,它们需要被酸消化. We have acquired a CEM MARSXpress that can produce temperatures of up to 260°C and pressures of 500 psi for rapid sample digestion and that processes up to 40 samples at a time.

有机

Our DIONEX ASE300 Accelerated Solvent Extraction system prepares organic samples for processing. 该装置使用高温高压, permitting rapid extraction of the samples with a much smaller volume of solvent than a conventional Soxhlet extraction system.

The lab also has a Fluid Management Systems (FMS) PowerPrep SPE Automated One-Step Extraction and Concentration System and an automated gel permeation chromatography (GPC) system for handling multiple samples simultaneously.

汞分析

我们的汞分析实验室可以分析固体,水和生物群的总汞.

教职员工

来自不同院系的许多教员与CAARES合作. 此外,我们与…密切合作 可持续环境研究所在那里,我们也有指定的教员.

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