Environmental
Analytical Chemistry [staff]
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
