Food Chemistry

Laboratory of Food Chemistry - Equipment

Equipment


The Laboratory of Food Chemistry has facilities for extraction of food or agricultural raw materials, as well as analytical and preparative scale chromatography of oligo- and polysaccharides, proteins and peptides, phytochemicals, and lipids. In addition,a wide variety of analytical techniques like HPLC coupled to various detectors, UHPLC-DAD-ESI-MS, GC coupled to FID or MS, MALDI-TOF-MS, cyclic ion mobility-MS, and spectrophotometry are available. Besides this, several other analytical facilities (e.g. NMR and CD) are shared with other laboratories at WUR.

An overview of analytical equipment at FCH can be found below.

Reservation of FCH equipment

A full, detailed list of equipment present at Food Chemistry can be found via the
booking site (WUR lab facilities Booking), where authorized users can also make equipment reservations.

For questions or requests related to FCH equipment, please contact the contact person (see top right corner of this page).

Chromatography and mass spectrometry
Equipment Type Additional detectors or features Instrument
HPLC (SEC or IC) RI / UV Dionex Ultimate 3000 (2x)
HPAEC PAD / UV Dionex ICS 6000 (2x)
HPAEC PAD / Post column addition Dionex ICS 6000 (2x)
RP-UHPLC-ESI-Tribrid Orbitrap-MS UV-Vis Thermo Scientific Vanquish + Orbitrap IQ-X Tribrid
RP-UPLC-ESI-cyclic ion mobility-TOF-MS UV / DESI source Waters Premier H class Bio + Select series Cyclic IMS
NP-HPLC CAD / UV Thermo Scientific Vanquish
Preparative HPLC (RP / NP) UV / MS / Fraction collection Waters Prep AutoPurification system
Preparative LC (SEC / IC / HIC) UV / Conductivity / Fraction collection Cytiva Äkta pure 25 M
Preparative LC (SEC / IC / HIC) UV / RI / Fraction collection Cytiva Äkta pure 150 M
Flash chromatography (RP / NP) ELSD / UV / Fraction collection Büchi Flash Pure C850
GC-MS FID / Olfactometry / Dynamic headspace / Cold trap Thermo Scientifc Trace 1300 + ISQ7000
GC FID / Olfactometry Thermo Scientific Trace 1300
(pyrolysis-)GC-MS Dynamic headspace, cold trap, SPME auto-sampler Thermo Scientific 1300 GC (2x) + Orbitrap Exactive + pyrolyser
MALDI-ToF-MS Bruker Autoflex Max

Spectroscopy
Type Instrument
UV-Vis Cuvette Thermo Scientific Genesys 150
UV-Vis + Fluorescence 96-wells plate Molecular Devices SpectraMax ID3 (2x)
UV-Vis + Fluorescence (for microbiology) 96-wells plate Tecan Infinite 200 PRO M Nano Plus
UV-Vis (for microbiology) 96-wells plate Tecan Infinite 200 M Pro

Miscellaneous
Type Equipment
SDS-PAGE, native PAGE Bio-rad Mini Protean system
Gel scanner Bio-rad GS900
Automated analyser for uronic acids Skalar San Plus AutoAnalyser
DUMAS nitrogen analyser Thermo Scientific FlashSmart
pH stat Metrohm Titrando 902 (6x)
Zeta-potential measurement Malvern Zetasizer Nano ZSP
Freeze dryers Christ Alpha 1-4 LSC Basic/Plus (3x)
Centrifugal mill Retsch Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 200
Bead mill Retsch Cryomill MM 400
Planetary ball mill Retsch Planetary Ball Mill PM 200
Microfluidizer (homogeniser) Microfluidics LV1