Facilities

AtmAA is located in a 5,400 sq.ft. stand-alone building. The space is used for laboratory sample analysis, sample handling, sample container storage, and preparation for offices, a maintenance shop, and a warehouse. AtmAA possesses customized, state-of-the-art laboratory analysis equipment for performing analyses of volatile organics, permanent gases, and total organics in water samples.

AtmAA’s equipment list includes a variety of customized gas chromatographs equipped with gas valve sample injection, select column switching, and a variety of detector choices:

  • GC/MS spectrometers: Hewlett-Packard, Agilent 5971,5972 MSD.
  • GC thermal conductivity detectors: HP 5890 Series II TCD Fixed Gases
  • TCA's ( total combustion analyzers ) for performing M25 measurements: AtmAA custom fabricated.
  • GC/FID Hewlett Packard low level Method 18 analysis
  • Sulfur Chemiluminescence Detectors: GC Agilent 7890B Sulfur analyzers
  • Automated data acquisition systems: Shimadzu Class-VP, CR4A, CR5A, HP Chemstation
  • Laboratory data acquisition software and HP integrators.
  • Vacuum heated canister cleaning and preparation system, custom constructed.
atmaa canisters