A sequential sample digestion platform for understanding radiological, environmental, industrial, and geochemical processes

用于了解放射学、环境、工业和地球化学过程的连续样品消解平台

• 批准号: RTI-2023-00203
• 负责人: Lariviere, Dominic
• 金额: $ 9.54万
• 依托单位: Université Laval
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=748689
• 关键词: sequential; sample; digestion; platform; understanding

The objective of this grant application is to provide researchers and users of the Characterization of Emerging Inorganic Pollutants/Indicators platform (CEIPIP), with a tool to enable to digest all samples types in a reproductible, complete, and coherent manner for inorganic analysis. The CEIPIP has already an extensive characterization platform with 2 ICP-MS/MS and 2 ICP-OES, but the sample preparation equipment that was purchased at its inception are now either impossible to repair (as parts are not supported by the vendors) or significantly damaged (which results in a high downtime). With over 50 different highly qualified personnel (HQP) currently using this instrumentation to support their active research, the sample preparation is the Achilles heel of the CEIPIP and has severely restricted our ability to analyze samples for their elemental compositions, especially for refractory elements or complex matrices (nuclear and e-wastes, peculiar sulfur deposit). In addition, as we are interested in the speciation and quantification of ultratraces, enrichment via chromatography or extraction is customary to digest samples. Thus, there is an URGENT need to provide the HQP of the CEIPIP with a robust sample digestion platform that is suited to the nature of the projects they are actively pursuing. For this reason, we are requesting three pieces of equipment (Focused Infrared Digester[FID], Microwave Digestion unit[MWD], and closed-vessel evaporator[CVE]) that can be coupled sequentially to provide a much-needed sample preparation capacity. Two of the requested equipment (FID and MWD) were part of the equipment previously available to CEIPIP users, but the obsolete and worn-out state of the decade-old equipment is jeopardizing our ability to perform state-of-the-art research related to inorganic constituents. Absence of such instrumentation strongly hinders the progression of our HQP and limited their capacity to generate data required to complete their research. Obviously, this platform will also be made available to all others graduate students and postdocs of the Science and Engineering faculty (over 300 researchers) as it has already been the case with the CEIPIP equipment. As many of our projects involves time and environment-sensitive species and nuclear materials, there is no possible alternative as the transportation and analysis of such substances is strongly limited in Canada, thus hindering our capacity to rely on external resources for the preparation of samples. Having this instrument is also very important for the training of HQP and for their future careers in analytical chemistry, nuclear and environmental sciences, earth sciences.

本资助申请的目的是为新兴无机污染物/指标表征平台（CEIPIP）的研究人员和用户提供一种工具，使其能够以可复制，完整和连贯的方式消化所有样品类型，用于无机分析。CEIPIP已经拥有一个广泛的表征平台，包括2个ICP-MS/MS和2个ICP-OES，但在开始时购买的样品制备设备现在要么无法修复（因为供应商不支持部件），要么严重损坏（导致高停机时间）。目前有超过50名不同的高素质人员（HQP）使用该仪器来支持他们的积极研究，样品制备是CEIPIP的致命弱点，严重限制了我们分析样品元素组成的能力，特别是难熔元素或复杂基质（核和电子废物，特殊硫矿床）。此外，由于我们对超痕量物的形态和定量感兴趣，通常通过色谱或萃取富集来消化样品。因此，迫切需要为CEIPIP的HQP提供一个强大的样品消化平台，以适应他们正在积极开展的项目的性质。因此，我们需要三台设备（聚焦红外蒸煮器[FID]，微波消解装置[MWD]和密闭容器蒸发器[CVE]），它们可以顺序耦合以提供急需的样品制备能力。其中两种设备（FID和MWD）是CEIPIP用户以前可以使用的设备的一部分，但是这些设备已经使用了十年之久，过时和磨损的状态正在危及我们进行与无机成分相关的最先进研究的能力。缺乏此类仪器严重阻碍了我们HQP的进展，并限制了他们生成完成研究所需数据的能力。显然，这个平台也将提供给所有其他科学与工程学院的研究生和博士后（超过300名研究人员），就像CEIPIP设备一样。由于我们的许多项目涉及对时间和环境敏感的物种和核材料，由于加拿大对这些物质的运输和分析受到严格限制，因此没有可能的替代方案，从而阻碍了我们依靠外部资源制备样品的能力。拥有这台仪器对HQP的培训以及他们未来在分析化学、核与环境科学、地球科学方面的职业生涯也非常重要。