Chemical Analysis Laboratory Equipment

南艾伯塔省理工学院(SAIT)正在为化学分析实验室设备申请资金，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部(ARIS)六个研究领域中的两个。ET小组成立于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高校工业研究讲座(IRCC)领导，其目标是解决油砂原位蒸汽生产过程中实现高能效、提高蒸汽质量和水循环以及减少温室气体排放的障碍。CERCUTS专注于创建环境无害、可靠、安全和高效的清洁能源解决方案，将非传统能源和替代能源整合在一起。ET和CERCUTS总共雇用了18名全职员工，他们拥有从文凭到博士的各种资历，并拥有化学实验室技术、化学工程、环境工程、工艺管道制图和工业仪表等专业知识。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的项目要求极低的检测下限都很重要，并将SAIT实验室目前的一台气相色谱-质谱仪(GC-MS)改装为多维气相色谱(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.