Equipment
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The equipment of Radiocarbon Laboratory fills the space area of ca. 400 m². Fully furnished chemical preparation rooms are equipped with fume boards, water demineralisers, analytical and micro- balances, ultrasonic baths, ovens, lyophiliser, ball mill, centrifuge, microscopes etc. Most important equipment is listed below:
1. AMS Laboratory (responsible: Natalia Piotrowska):
- Automated graphitisation equipment AGE-3 (IonPlus AG)
- VarioMicro EA for combustion of organic samples
- Manual tube cracker for CO2 introduction
- Vacuum line for carbonate decomposition and CO₂ purification
- AMS MICADAS spectrometer for ¹⁴C measurement
2. LSC Laboratory (responsible: Adam Michczyński):
- Two Quantulus 1220 spectrometers
- Two ICELS spectrometers
- Prototype multi-chamber scintillation spectrometer for rapid measurements of low radioactivities
- Vacuum lines for sample combustion and conversion to benzene
- Oxygen-flow line with two ovens: two-zone oven Czylok PRS-50, infra-red oven Behr IRF-10 for stepped-combustion
3. Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (responsible: Sławomira Pawełczyk):
- Continuous-flow IRMS IsoPrime
- Elemental analyser EuroVector EA3000 for analysis of solid samples with combustion or pyrolysis
- MultiFlow device for preparation of water and carbonate samples
In addition, the field sampling equipment is available: Wardenaar and Russian (instorf) coring devices for sediment sampling and drills for tree-ring coring. The LINTAB equipment for tree-ring width measurement was recently upgraded with a new microscope.
