Laboratory Capabilities
The Civil and Environmental Department in housed in the EPIC (Energy Production and Infrastructure Center) Building at UNC Charlotte. EPIC is 200,000 square feet of LEED-Gold standard certified space. It hosts state-of-the-art classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms and research laboratories. Among these are the High-Bay Structures Laboratory, the Pavement Materials Performance Laboratory, and a Water Resources Research Lab.
General Lab Facilty Information
Point of contact: Dr. Xiuli Lin, xlin6@uncc.edu, EPIC 3233, 704-687-8618
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Main Instruments in the graduate lab
- Thermo Fisher iCAP Qc ICP-MS with autosampler
- Agilent 5100 ICP-OES with autosampler
- Agilent 1100 HPLC with binary pump, autosampler coupled with 6410B triple quadruple mass spectrometer.
- Agilent 1100 HPLC with quaternary pump, diode array detector, autosampler and column thermostat
- Shimadzu GC-2014 gas chromatograph (GC-FID, GC-CD and GC-ECD)
- Shimadzu Total organic carbon analyzer (TOC-L)
- Agilent Cary 60 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
- LS 13 320 laser diffraction Particle Sizing Analyzer – Beckman Coulter
- The ICS-3000 Ion Chromatography
- 930 Compact IC Flex – Metrohm AG with autosampler
- AQF -2100H automatic quick furnace with AU-250 gas absorption unit
- ASC-240S automatic solid sampler
Main Instruments used for Microbiology in the graduate lab
- Semi automated electronic 96-well channel dispenser by Eppendorf
- Shaking Incubator by Corning
- NanoDrop Spectrophotometer – by Thermo Scientific
- Fluorometer – by Invitrogen
- Quanti-Tray Sealer Plus by IDEXX
- Ultra-pure water dispenser – by Merck Millipore
- UV Illuminator
- Automated DNA Purification System– by QIAcube
- Thermal Cycler – by BIO-RAD
- qPCR Equipment – by BIO-RAD
- Gel Imager – by BIO-RAD
Main Instruments in the undergraduate lab
- Hach DR2800 Vis spectrophotometer (340-900 nm range) compatible with Hach TNTplus vials, portable
- Fisher Scientific Accumet AB150 (2) and Accumet AE 150 (4) pH meters
- YSI MultiLab 4010-1 dissolved oxygen meters (4)
- OAKTON pH/Conductivity meters
- HACH 2100N Turbidity meter
- Phips and Bird Jar tester(8)
- Hach DRB 200 COD Reactor
- Flo-Mate 2000 portable flow meters
- Olympus BX41TF microscope
- Trilogy Laboratory Fluorometer from Turner Designs