Facility
After 17 years in its' old laboratory facility, Katahdin completed a smooth transition to a new facility on December 7, 2006.
Planning for the new 12,000 SF facility began in early 2006 with groundbreaking in June, 2006. The new facility was designed and built from the ground up to meet Katahdin's requirements. The project was completed on time and within budget by the general contractor.
The facility includes State-of-the-Art mechanical and electrical systems for energy efficiency. Additionally, the facility layout and building features will improve personnel efficiencies. To ensure a smooth transition to the new facility Katahdin purchased new laboratory hoods and casework, and a new "walk-in" refrigerator. In conjunction with the move a new Thermo Electron 6500 was purchased for metals analysis, as well as, gas generators for Hydrogen, zero air, UHP Nitrogen and Nitrogen.
While the new facility is not a "LEEDS" certified building, many LEEDS specifications and materials are integral to the building. Lighting is provided by "high efficiency" florescent lights which are activated by motion sensors. To reduce air conditioning requirements, the roof is a "white" TPO membrane. Katahdin purchased new "reduced flow/velocity" hoods which allow for a face velocity of 60 fpm versus normal hoods which require 100 fpm. These hoods and all HVAC systems are integrated into a building direct computer control "DCC" system which allows for the building to be in "shutdown" mode at night. The system may be monitored off-site via "the web". Additionally, the building control system monitors the electrical usage and allows for "power shedding" during summer peak 15 minute demands. Non essential loads, such as office areas will be the areas to be shed in an orderly manner and then brought back up after the 15 minute peak has passed.
The facility encompasses separate laboratories for sample receipt, trace metals preparation, inorganic sample preparation and analysis, trace metals analysis, wet chemistry instrument analysis, Extractables (GC and GC/MS), Volatiles (GC and GC/MS), low-level Mercury analysis, and Food/Microbiology testing.
Instrumentation
Katahdin continually invests in new instrumentation and software to stay current with new state-of the art technology. In order to provide ample capacity for larger projects and redundancy in case of unplanned equipment downtime, Katahdin has purchased multiple instruments to perform the more commonly request analyses. The following table represents current instrumentation at Katahdin.
Analytical Instrumentation |
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KEY INSTRUMENTATION |
No. of Instruments |
USED FOR ANALYSIS |
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Hewlett Packard 5972 GC/MS with EPC, Centurion
Autosampler with foam sensor options and EST ENCON Purge and Trap
Concentrator |
1 |
5030/8260 5035/8260 624 & CLPOLM04.3 & EARLIER
SOWS(VOA), OLC03.2 AND EARLIER SOWS(VOA), 524.2 |
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Hewlett Packard 5972 GC/MS with EPC; Tekmar LSC-3000
Purge and Trap concentrator; Archon autosampler capable of low soils per
Method 5035. |
2 |
5030/8260 5035/8260 624 & CLPOLM04.3 & EARLIER
SOWS(VOA), OLC03.2 AND EARLIER SOWS(VOA), 524.2 |
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Hewlett Packard 5972 GC/MS with EPC; EST ENCON Purge
and Trap concentrator; Archon autosampler capable of low soils per Method
5035. |
2 |
5030/8260 5035/8260 624 & CLPOLM04.3 & EARLIER SOWS(VOA)
, OLC03.2 AND EARLIER SOWS(VOA), 524.2
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Hewlett Packard 5973 GC/MS with EPC; Agilent 6890 ALS. |
2 |
8270, 625 & CLPOLM04.3 &
EARLIER SOWS (SVOA) |
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Hewlett Packard 5973 GC/MS with EPC; Agilent 7683 ALS.
The instrument is capable of being flipped from volatile to semivolatile
analysis. |
1 |
8270, 625 & CLPOLM04.3 &
EARLIER SOWS (SVOA) |
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Hewlett Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with EPC
and dual electron capture detectors(ECD); Hewlett Packard Model 7673
autosampler. |
2 |
8081, 8082, 608 |
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Hewlett Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with dual
electron capture detectors (ECD); Hewlett Packard Model 7673A autosampler. |
1 |
504, 8011, 8151 |
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Hewlett
Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with EPC and dual flame ionization
detectors; Hewlett Packard Model 7673 autosampler. |
2 |
8015 MOD., MAEPH, DRO |
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Hewlett
Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector; Tekmar
ALS 2016 autosampler; Tekmar LSC 2000 purge and trap. |
1 |
8015 MOD., GRO |
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Hewlett
Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector and photo
ionization detector; Tekmar ALS 2016 autosampler; Tekmar LSC 3000 purge and
trap. |
1 |
8015 MOD., MAVPH, GRO |
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Hewlett Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with a
flameionization detector; Agilent Technologies G1888 Network Headspace
Analyzer. |
1 |
Methane, Ethane and Ethene |
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Hewlett
Packard Model 5890 gas chromatograph with flame ionization and
nitrogen-phosphorous detectors; Hewlett Packard Model 7673 autosampler. |
1 |
ALCOHOLS, DMF, GLYCOLS |
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Agilent Model 6890 gas chromatograph with dual EPC
injection ports and micro electron capture detectors; Agilent Model 7683
autosampler (Neslab CFT-25 refrigerated recirculator to be used in
conjunction with this instrument for 8095 analysis). |
1 |
8081, 8082 (INCLUDING CONGENERS), 608
CLP OLM04.3 & EARLIER SOWS (P/P), 8095 (METHOD DEVELOPMENT) |
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Waters HPLC system with 600 multisolvent delivery
system; 717 Plus autosampler; Spectra System UV2000 detector. |
1 |
8330, 8332 |
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Horizon SPE-DEX 3000 Automated Extractor System
equipped with 3 extractors. |
1 |
1664, 9070, 9071 |
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ABC Autoprep 1000 GPC with UVD-1 ultraviolet detector
and chart recorder. |
1 |
CLP OLM04.3 & EARLIER SOWS
(GPC-3640) |
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Horizon SPE-DEX 4790 Automated Extractor System
equipped with 4 extractors. |
1 |
3535
Method Developement |
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Thermo ICAP 6500 ICP Emission Spectrometer with autosampler. |
1 |
6010, 200.7, ILM05.4 |
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Agilent 7500a ICP-MS with autosampler and autodiluter. |
1 |
6020, 200.8, ILM05.3 |
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CETAC
M-6100 Automated Mercury Analyzer with Autosampler |
1 |
7470/7471, 245.1, 245.5, ILM05.3 |
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Tekran Series 2600 automated mercury analyzer with gold
amalgam preconcentration and atomic fluorescence detector; Model 2620
autosampler. |
1 |
Ultra-trace level mercury (1631) |
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Waters 717 Autosampler, Waters 431
conductivity detector, Spectra System P4000 pump. |
Dionex IonPak AS4A column; Dionex AMMS III chemical
suppression system |
1 |
Ion chromatography – Various Anions |
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Dionex AS16 column; Dionex ultra ASRS electronic
suppression system. |
Ion Chromatography - Perchlorate |
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LACHAT Quickchem 8000 Continuum Series – Automated Ion
Analyzer and autosampler. |
1 |
Various |
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Shimadzu TOC-V Combustion Analyzer, PC Controlled, High
Sensitivity, Auto-Aqueous TOC Analyzer w/ 40 mL vials; Model SSM-5000A Solid
Sample Module. |
1 |
TOC |
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Konelab 20 Multi-Wavelength Photometric Analyzer. |
1 |
Various |
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