MRI: Acquisition of a Gas Chromatography Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer for Research and Teaching at Maine Maritime Academy

该项目使缅因州海事学院（MMA）能够购买和维护一台气相色谱-串联质谱仪（GC-MS/MS）。该仪器将在许多缅因州海事教师的研究中发挥至关重要的作用，并在其他缅因州学院/大学、区域保护组织和环境实验室的合作伙伴和合作者的研究中发挥支持作用。一个本土的缅因州部落。该仪器还将立即纳入工程和海洋科学系提供的8个MMA课程。该项目产生的GC-MS/MS系统将使不同研究领域的各种新研究项目成为可能，包括生物燃料化学，海洋和环境化学，海洋科学，水污染和修复以及生物工程。特别是对生物量热化学转化为燃料和化学品十分重要的分子反应;持久性有机污染物，如二恶英和呋喃在大气和海洋环境中的特性、迁移和归宿将在当地进行测绘，以预测影响;环境和人类过程对有机人为污染物（如多环芳烃、多氯联苯和石油）的影响和归宿的影响，将对这些化合物进行量化，从而提高环境取证能力;将开发用于残余石油和沥青原料升级的低能耗脱硫途径;将探索从研究不足的微藻细胞外环境中分离新化合物的存在和技术经济可行性。这些项目将涉及整个缅因州海事学院社区，包括本科生研究人员，学生在课堂上，教师和工作人员。

This project enables Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to purchase and maintain a gas chromatograph - tandem mass spectrometry instrument (GC-MS/MS). This instrument will play a vital role in the research of a number of Maine Maritime faculty and a supporting role in the research of partners and collaborators at other Maine colleges/universities, a regional conservation group, and the environmental laboratory of a native Maine tribe. The instrument will also be immediately incorporated into the curricula of eight MMA classes offered by the Engineering and Ocean Science departments. A variety of novel research projects across diverse fields of study will be enabled by the GC-MS/MS system resulting from this project including biofuel chemistry, marine and environmental chemistry, ocean science, water pollution and remediation and bioengineering. In particular, molecular reactions important to biomass thermochemical conversions to fuels and chemicals; the characterization, transport and fate of persistent organic pollutants, such as dioxins and furans, in atmospheric and marine environments will be mapped locally to predict impacts; environmental and human processes on the impact and fate of organic anthropogenic contaminants, such as PAHs, PCBs and oil, will be quantified leading to enhanced environmental forensics capabilities; low energy desulfurization pathways for residual petroleum and bitumen feedstock upgrading will be developed; and the presence and techno-economic feasibility of isolating new compounds from understudied micro-algae extracellular environments will be explored. These projects will engage the entire Maine Maritime Academy community including undergraduate student researchers, students in the classroom, and faculty and staff.