Photos from CH 461/663
Electronic and Optical Instrumentation
Students use components to build their own spectrometers
C4611.jpg (207343 bytes)Operational amplifiers and log amplifiers are part of the spectrometer setup.
Students are carefully charting the progress of a titration. Ptr1.jpg (194085 bytes)Professor Ingle teaches Experimental Chemistry II, CH 461
Ptrcp.jpg (177285 bytes)Dr. Pastorek helps a student troubleshoot the system. Ptr2.jpg (189536 bytes)This student must be having fun working with electronic components to build his very own spectrometer! Computer interfaced data collection is an important part of all modern instrumentation.

New Opportunity!  Inductively Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectrometer2

icp4.jpg (180256 bytes)Graduate Teaching Assistant gives assistance in operation of the new ICP. Icp1.jpg (180282 bytes)Professor Ingle works with a group of students. Icp3.jpg (185164 bytes)

Examples of Special Projects in CH 461
psn00213.jpg (175499 bytes)Investigating the elemental composition for leachate-one of the special project in CH 461 using ICP gcms2.jpg (161535 bytes)GCMS analysis of gasoline additives

HPLC Determination of Vitamin B2 in vitamin tablet1. 		adh2.jpg (179482 bytes)Enzyme Catalysis to determine EtOH concentrations in various beverages.
Using ICP to investigate demineralization of teeth by soda pop. Using SPE sample preparation techniques to concentrate caffeine from various teas.
1The HPLC instrumentation was funded in part by the National Science Foundation -Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement program (NSF-ILI), USE #9151893. 2The Inductively coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer was funded in part from NSF-ILI, DUE-9651245.

CH 461 material updated on September 21, 2002