Equipment

Equipment present at Food Chemistry

  • Chromatography
  • Spectroscopy
  • Electrophoresis
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Other
  • Hyphenated techniques
Chromatography
Equipment Type Detection Instrument
HPLC (isocratic) SEC or IC RI / UV Dionex Ultimate 3000 (2x)
HPAEC (Inert quaternary) AEC PAD / UV Dionex ICS 6000 (2x)
HPAEC (Inert quaternary) AEC PAD / Post column addition Dionex ICS 6000 (2x)
UPLC RP UV / MS / FLR Thermo Vanquish (2x)
UPLC (Bio) RP UV / MS Waters Premier H class
HPLC NP CAD / UV Thermo Vanquish
Prep HPLC (quaternary) RP / NP UV / MS / Fraction collection Waters Prep
Semi-Prep LC SEC, IC or HIC UV / Cond / Fraction collection Cytiva, Akta pure 125
Prep-LC SEC, IC or HIC UV / RI Fraction collection Cytiva, Akta pure 150
Flash Chromatography RP / NP ELS / UV Fraction collection Buchi Flash Pure C850
GC-MS Dynamic Headspace, Cold trap MS and two sniffing ports Thermo Scientifc Trace1300 + ISQ7000 (MS)
GC FID and two sniffing ports Thermo Scientific Trace 1300
GC-MS (Pyrolysis) Dynamic Headspace, Cold trap, Pyrolysis Orbitrap/Exactive MS Thermo Scientific 1300 GC (2x) Orbitrap/Exactive MS with pyrolyse unit
Spectroscopy
Type Instrument
UV (Standard UV + kinetics) Cuvette ThermoScientific Genesys 150
UV (Standard UV + Kinetics) Microtiterplate Molecular devices – SpectraMax ID3 (2x)
Fluorescence (polarization) detector Microtiterplate Tecan Infinity 500
Circular dichroism
Electrophoresis
System Detection Equipment
SDS-PAGE, Native PAGE Bio-rad - Mini Protean system
Biorad blotting Bio-rad
Gelscanner Bio-rad GS900
Mass spectrometry
Type Extra Instrument
ESI / APCI Ion Trap MS Detectors: DAD Thermo LTQ Velos Pro (2x)
ESI Tribrid Orbitrap Detectors: DAD / FLD Thermo Orbitrap IQ-X Tribrid
ESI TOF MS DESI source Ion Mobility Detectors: DAD Waters Select series Cyclic IMS
MALDI-TOF MS Bruker Autoflex Max
EI-MSD Thermo MSD
Miscellaneous
Type Equipment
Automated drop tensiometer Tecklis - Tracker
Autoanalyser Skalar - Auto Analyser
DUMAS nitrogen (determination unit) Thermo Scientific Flash Smart
Differential Scanning Calorimetry
pH stat Metrohm - Titrando 902
Foamscan Teclis - Foamscan
Nanosizer ZSP Malvern - Zetaziser Nono ZSP
Speed evaporator Buchi Syncore
Germinator
Hyphenated Techniques
Combination extra Equipment
UPCL - IT MS DAD/FLD Vanquish + LTQ VelosPRo (2x)
UPLC - Tribrid Orbitrap MS DAD Vanquish + IQ-X
UPLC – IM- TOF MS Ion mobility Premier + Select series Cyclic IMS
DESI – IM TOF MS Ion Mobility DESI + Select series Cyclic IMS