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Laboratory facilities

The organic Geochemistry Laboratory at UIC occupies three laboratories on the 2nd floor of the Science and Engineering Building South (SES).  
  • The first laboratory (SES 2455 A and B) is mostly dry  and hosts  HP gas chromatographs (GC), a Agilent Technology GC- mass spectrometer (GC-MSD), LECO GCxGC-FID and a LECO GCxGC-time of flight MS (GCxGC-TOF MS), Pegasus 4D.  This laboratory also hosts a preparative pyrolysis unit and a freezer. 
  • The second lab(SES 2457) is a wet lab with 4 brand new (2016) hoods and hosts solvent extraction tools such as soxhlet extractors and a sonic extractor, as well as a centriguge, balances, a low temperature oven, and high pressure reactor for hydogenation experiments. 
  • The third laboratory (SES 2459) mostly a dry laboratory, has a brand new stainless steal hood, and is mostly used for preparation of samples for  laser desorption postionization-MS. This laboratory host two refrigerators for storage of  organic fraction as well as a small freezer.  The third laboratory also hosts a large high temperature oven.  

OGL also uses a walk-in refrigerator and a walk-in freezer rooms located on the first floor of the Science and Engineering Laboratory building, for long term storage of samples.  Soon, a fourth laboratory will be dedicated to very high pressure microbial growth experiments.  

OGL major instrumentation

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GC-MS

The OGL GCMS is a HP 5890 GC coupled to a mass selective detector (MSD) 
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GC×GC-FID

GC×GC-FID purchased from LECO, 
using a Agilent Technology 6890 GC-FID
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Pegasus 4D GC×GC-TOF MS

Purchased from LECO, the GC×GC-time of flight mass spectrometer (TOF) has a 6890 GC with a LECO secondary oven and modulator coupled to a TOF  MS.
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Other Instrumentation 

SES 2455 OGL Lab 1 (partial view)
Vinci S2 analyser. A preparative pyrolysis unit.
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