Gas Isotope Ratio
Mass Spectrometry Facility
Time-resolved monitoring of gaseous products and their isotopologues
Gas Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) Facility at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University provides a unique highly-sensitive detection of gaseous products and their stable isotopologues in a broad range of biological, geochemical, environmental, and chemical samples both in gas and liquid phases.
Our state-of-the-art IRMS instrument (DELTA V Plus) is connected to various in house membrane-inlet sample chambers, which enable time-resolved monitoring of gases in gaseous, liquid, and solid samples. That is the reason why we often call our technique as time-resolved membrane-inlet mass spectrometry (TR-MIMS). This TR-MIMS setup allows online detection of gases (such as H2, CH4, CO, CO2, HCN, N2, N2O, O2, H2S, or SO2) and their isotopologues.
The aim of our facility is to provide our expertise and the IRMS services for local, national, and international researchers (both academic and industrial) in their studies which require online monitoring of various gases, volatile compounds, and their isotopologues in complex reaction mixtures on time scales of seconds to days. We are open for all clients and potential collaborators.
In combination with isotope labelling our instrumentation can be applied in
Plant Sciences
Plant physiology, photosynthesis and respiration research
Geochemistry
Mass-dependent fractionation gas analyses, paleoclimatology and hydrogeology
Biochemistry
Oxygenation reactions, enzyme kinetic studies, microbial processes
Medicinal Chemistry
In vivo monitoring of blood gases,
cancer research
Soil Sciences
Analysis of soil samples for gas composition and mass-dependent fractionations
Environmental Chemistry
Online monitoring of biological and industrial processes in wastewaters, air analysis