Equipment

Located at Louvain-la-Neuve

• ThermoScientific DSQ GC mass spectrometer. Single quad instrument.
• Four quaternary pump HPLC set-ups with different detectors (DAD, Fluorimetric, Coulometric).
• Three isocratic HPLC set-up equipped with various detectors (UV-Vis with fraction collector, Fluorimetric, IR).
• Two GC instruments with FID detector.
• Varian Cary 50 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
• Varian Cary Eclipse spectrofluoremeter
• Jobin-Yvon Spex Fluorolog 3 spectrofluorometer

Brewery and food industry unit (INBR)

• GC-Olfactometry (1 Interscience, 2 Varian)
• GC-mass spectrometry (1 Quadrupole Interscience)
• 9 GC (HP, Varian, Interscience) including FOR INJECTION : 1 static HS, 2 Purge and Trap, 1 SPME, 1 on column, 5 split/splitless AND FOR DETECTION : 7 FID, 1 NPD, 1 PFPD, 1 Sievers
• 4 HPLC including absorption UV, diode array, fluorescence, refractometer
• HPLC/MSn : ESI & APCI
• Semi-preparative HPLC
• Antioxidant assays (AAPH, ..)
• Room for sensorial analysis (10 pers.)

 Located at Woluwe (Brussels)

ThermoScientific LTQ – ORBITRAP - XL high resolution mass spectrometer fitted with an electrospray ionization (ESI) or atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source, equipped with CID, PQD and HCD fragmentation for MS/MS analysis. Nano-electrospray is also available. The instrument is coupled to an Accela (U)HPLC.

• ThermoScientific Trace GC-MS.
• Focus GC with FID detector
• Two Waters QuattroMicro triple quad LC-MS instruments. These are mainly dedicated to the clinical analysis for Saint-Luc university hospital.
• Thermoscientific LCQ Advantage mass spectrometer fitted with an electrospray ionization (ESI) or atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source and coupled to a Waters HPLC.
• One ThermoScientific Accela (U)HPLC with DAD detection
• One Hitachi gradient HPLC with DAD detector