ANALYSIS AND INSTRUMENTATION

The Analysis and Instrumentation Service (SAI) is a research support service that offers support for the analysis of soils, plants and liquid samples (water, soil and plant extracts, etc.) to the different departments of IRNASA, and also provides services to other public centres and private companies.

IRNASA’s Management, in its commitment to the quality of its services and the satisfaction of its stakeholders, has implemented a quality management system according to the UNE-EN-ISO 9001 standard, certified by Bureau Veritas Certification since September 2015, whose scope is “PERFORMANCE OF ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL SOILS AND THE ISSUANCE OF THE CORRESPONDING MANURE RECOMMENDATIONS”.

6,043 samples

analysed in 2020

1,103 of soils

2,062 of plants

2,878 liquid

THE SAI HAS THE FOLLOWING EQUIPMENT AT ITS DISPOSAL:

METABOLOMICS PLATFORM CONSISTING OF A HIGH RESOLUTION QTOF MASS SPECTROMETRY EQUIPMENT (MODEL 6546A), TOGETHER WITH AN ULTRA-HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPH UHPLC (MODEL HPCL INFINITY II), AGILENT
LASER DIFFRACTION PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSER WITH AUTOMATIC LIQUID SAMPLE DISPERSION MODULE, MALVERN (MODEL MASTERSIZER 3000, HYDRO LV)
ELEMENTAL ANALYSER FOR THE DETERMINATION OF CARBON AND TOTAL NITROGEN, LECO (MODEL CHN 628)
MICROWAVE DIGESTER, MILESTONE (ETHOS EASY MODEL)
VARIAN UV-VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETER (MODEL CARY 100 CONC)
UV-VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETER, AGILENT (MODEL CARY 60)
SEGMENTED FLOW AUTOANALYSER EQUIPPED WITH DIGITAL COLOURIMETER, BRAN+LUEBBE (MODEL AA3)
VARIAN ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER (EAA) (MODEL SPECTRAA 220/FS) EQUIPPED WITH HYDRIDE GENERATOR VGA 76 AND GRAPHITE FURNACE GTA 110
VARIAN INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETER (ICP-OES) VARIAN (MODEL 720-EN)