Slovenia: Group for Environmental Analytical Chemistry at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
Description
Scope of work: - development of the analytical procedures for speciation of chromium, aluminium, cadmium, lead, zinc and tin in the environmental and biological samples
- investigations of the partitioning of heavy metals in the terrestrial environment and in waste materials
- bioavailability of trace elements from soils and sediments
- investigations of oxidation - reduction processes of chromium
- investigations related to safe disposal of waste materials (sewage sludge, tannery waste)
- investigations of the uptake, kinetics and transformation of various aluminium and chromium species in plants
- development of analytical procedures for determination of Pt in samples of various animal and human tissueses after electrochemoterapy of cancer with Pt-containing drugs in laboratory and clinical trials
- studies of the physiological and subcellular responses in the organism of some endemic amphibian species in Slovenia (e.g. Proteus anguinus) to elevated trace metals concentration in their environment
- determination of persistent and/or toxic organic pollutants (aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated compounds, phenols, pesticides, pharmaceutical residues) in different environmental matrixes (water samples, sediments, soil, biological materials)
- organic compound mobility, (bio)accumulation and transformation in the environment
in vitro biodegradation studies of organic pollutants (selected PAHs, PCBs, polychlorinated alkanes) - (bio)degradation of pharmaceutical residues in waste waters in pilot treatment plant
bioindicators for pollution with PAHs and organotins - monitoring of organic solvents in wastewaters
- management of Ecological Laboratory with a Mobile Unit (ELMU) for accidental pollution
- use of the Knudsen Cell Mass Spectrometry in the investigations of evaporation and/or atomisation properties of inorganic substances
- qualitative and quantitative analysis of gas samples by mass spectrometry
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