Chemical Analysis Laboratory Equipment

南阿尔伯塔理工学院（SAIT）正在申请资助化学分析实验室设备，这些设备将由环境技术（ET）研究小组和能源研究和清洁非常规技术解决方案中心（CERCUTS）使用和共享，这是应用研究和创新服务（阿里斯）部门六个研究领域中的两个。ET集团成立于2008年，通过开发减少工业对空气，土壤和水的影响的解决方案，领导与能源和环境相关的清洁技术开发的应用研究。CERCUTS由SAIT的NSERC工业研究学院主席（IRCC）领导，在油砂原位蒸汽发生，其目标是解决实现高能源效率，提高蒸汽质量和水循环的障碍，并减少在原位油砂生产过程中的温室气体排放。CERCUTS致力于创造环保、可靠、安全和高效的清洁能源解决方案，并将非常规能源和替代能源相结合。ET和CERCUTS总共雇用了18名全职员工，他们的证书从文凭到博士学位不等，并且专门从事化学实验室技术，化学工程，环境工程，工艺管道设计和工业仪器仪表。申请的资金将用于购买电感耦合等离子体质谱仪（ICP-MS），这对CERCUTS和ET都很重要，因为它们的项目要求非常低的检测限，并将SAIT实验室目前的气相色谱-质谱仪（GC-MS）转换为多维气相色谱仪或GCxGC。

The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) is requesting funding for chemical analysis laboratory equipment that will be used and shared by the Environmental Technologies (ET) research group and the Centre for Energy Research and Clean Unconventional Technology Solutions (CERCUTS), two of six research areas in the Applied Research and Innovation Services (ARIS) department. Established in 2008, the ET group leads applied research in clean technology development associated with energy and the environment through the development of solutions for the reduction of industrial impacts to air, soil and water. CERCUTS is led by SAIT's NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges (IRCC) in Oil Sands In Situ Steam Generation, the goal of which is to address barriers to achieving high energy efficiency, enhanced steam quality and water recycle, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions during in-situ oil sands production. CERCUTS is focused on creating environmentally sound, reliable, secure and highly efficient clean energy solutions with the integration of unconventional and alternative energy. Together, ET and CERCUTS employ 18 people full-time with credentials ranging from diploma through to PhD, and specializations in chemical laboratory technology, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, process piping drafting, and industrial instrumentation. The requested funds will be used to purchase an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS), which is important for both CERCUTS and ET whose projects require very low detection limits, and to convert a gas chromatograph - mass spectrometer (GC-MS) currently in the SAIT lab to a multi-dimensional gas chromatograph, or GCxGC.