Chemical analyses:
- direct determination of Hg-content in solid and liquid phase by the device of TMA-254 (Trace Mercury Analyser)
- determination of gaseous Hg concentration in environmental air by the device of Jerome 431x
- determination of gaseous Hg concentration in environmental air by means of the gold-amalgam method
- spectrophotocolorimetric determination of elements and anions concentration
- determination of SO2, NOX concentration
- analysis of gases (CO2, CH4, O2, H2S, H2, CO)
- water analysis (pH, redox potential, dissolved oxygen concentration, BOD - biological oxygen demand, concentration of SO42-, Fe3+, Fe2+, ...)
- analysis of soils, sediments, compost and similar materials (organic substances degradation rate)
- preparative work (drying of samples, diminishing onto analytical grain size, decomposition in acids and insoluble residue smelting, microwave decomposition by the device of MWS-3)
- analytical determination (moisture of sample, loss by ignition, SiO2 by gravimetric analysis, Fe by volumetric analysis, elements concentration by AAS directly and also by electrothermic atomization GTA, sulphates nefelometrically, ash in coal, total, sulphidic, pyritic and sulphate sulphur, sulphur in sulphides)
Physical properties analyses:
- determination of rock drillability on rotary drilling stand developed at the Institute
- determination of rock strength on standard compression frame
- determination of dust concentration on the Hund dust-counter
- determination of magnetic susceptibility of materials on the Kappa Bridge device
- determination of material humidity by nuclear detector developed at the Institute
- contactless temperature measurement with an apparatus developed at the Institute
- determination of specific surface area on the Gemini 2360 apparatus by Micrometrics, USA
- X-ray qualitative diffraction analysis and special X-ray diffraction measurements on the DRON 2 apparatus, Russia (exact determination of structural parameters, determination of crystallity indexes, size of crystallites, stress analysis etc.)
- determination of density of solids and fluids
- thermal treatment of samples
Technological properties analyses:
- particles distribution analysis on the Helos/LA apparatus by Sympatec, Germany
- float-sink analyses
- breaking and grinding of materials onto required grain size
- low-intensity, high-intensity and polygradient magnetic separation of solids
- magnetohydrostatic and gravity concentration of solids
- gravitačná úprava surovín v hydrocyklóne
- fine and ultra-fine (submicrometric) sample milling
- zrnitostný rozbor vzoriek na sitách v rozmedzí zrnitosti 0,04-0,9 mm suchou a mokrou cestou
Microbiological analyses:
- analysis of bacterial DNA by means of PCR from Techne
- bacterial species identification by Becton-Dickinson (USA) identification system
- the isolation of acidophilic bacteria from mine drainage and percolating waters
- the isolation of sulphate-reducing bacteria from sediments and mineral waters
- isolation of silicate bacteria from silicate rock matrix and non-metallic ores
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