A combined Flow-Injection-Analyzer with an Ion Chromatography (FIA-IC) system for emerging environmental research with complex-matrix

不列颠哥伦比亚大学土木工程和化学生物工程环境小组的研究人员正在申请Lachate的QuikChem 8500系列2流动注射分析（FIA）系统，以取代1994年购买的经常发生故障和过时的单通道FIA仪器（Quickchem FIA+8000系列）。新系统结合了两种分析方法FIA集成IC（离子色谱）。FIA仪器有四个通道，这将使我们能够在百万分之一的水平上量化和分析多种离子。集成的IC模块将提供巨大的优势，因为它将能够通过根据浓度水平选择任一模块，以十亿分之一的水平同时测量无机和有机阳离子/阴离子浓度，而不必重复分析。这将大大提高我们的研究成果。这种替代工具对于提高我们在科学和工程环境研究中发现和创新的能力至关重要，可以解决具有挑战性的复杂基质背景中新出现的污染物问题，包括几种类型的采矿，市政和工业废水以及受污染的饮用水。该仪器对于UBC研究人员继续为环境科学和工程做出前沿贡献至关重要。它将促进范围广泛的研究活动，在这些活动中，通常需要进行定量化学分析，以支持对自然水、矿井排水、城市径流、废水、沥滤液、沉积物、土壤、淤泥和工业副产品的研究。

Researchers in the Environmental Groups of Civil Engineering and Chemical-Biological Engineering at UBC are applying for a Lachate's QuikChem 8500 Series 2 Flow Injection Analysis (FIA) System to replace a frequently-broken-down and obsolete one-channel FIA instrument (Quickchem FIA+ 8000Series), purchased in 1994. The new system combines two analysis methods FIA integrated IC (Ion Chromatography). The FIA instrument has four channels, which will allow us to quantify and analyze multiple species of ions at the parts per million level. The integrated IC module will provide great advantages as it will enable simultaneous measurement of inorganic and organic cation/anion concentrations at the parts per billion level, by selecting either module, depending on the concentration level, without having to repeat the analysis. This will significantly increase our research output. This replacement instrument is essential to enhance our capability to discover and innovate in environmental research in sciences and engineering, tackling contaminants of emerging concern in challenging complex matrix backgrounds, including several types of mining, municipal and industrial wastewater, and contaminated drinking water. The instrument is critical for UBC researchers to continue to make leading-edge contributions to environmental sciences and engineering. It will facilitate a broad spectrum of research activities, where quantitative chemical analyses are routinely required supporting studies on natural water, mine drainage, urban run-off, wastewater, leachates, sediments, soils, sludges and industrial by-products.