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A tandem mass spectrometer with a quadrupole and Q-TOF time of flight analyzer is another piece of equipment purchased within the frames of the project entitled "Research center for pro-environmental and energy-saving materials and technologies (CeBMaT)", realized at Lublin University of Technology and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.

This time, the purchased spectrometer will equip the laboratories of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering.

- The purchased spectrometer allows you to identify or test the concentration of tens of thousands of organic compounds, even when they are present in complex mixtures and their concentration is at the ppb-level, i.e. one molecule in a billion. This is possible thanks to the use of two mechanisms for separating ions in the tested samples. These mechanisms take place in separate elements of the device, the so-called quadrupole, which acts as a filter that allows only certain ions to pass through, and the time of flight analyzer, which separates ions by using differences in their speed in the vacuum - says Prof. Małgorzata Pawłowska, head of the Department of Biomass and Waste Conversion into Biofuels, Faculty of Environmental Engineering.

The aim of the CeBMaT project is to create a research infrastructure. Its research scope will cover the areas of knowledge focused on power engineering, environmental engineering, materials engineering as well as opto- and mechatronic systems necessary to control technological processes.