Infrastructure
The laboratories that make up the PGRN infrastructure are distributed across the University Units of Dourados, Navirai and Aquidauana. In total, there are approximately 2,500 m2 for research activities and rooms for teachers. The following are the laboratories with some of their main equipment:
1. Ecology Laboratory
1.1) 2 Gas analyzers
1.2) 1 Axiostar Plus microscope with attached analog photography system
1.3) 2 Trinocular microscopes (Purchased with CAPES - Pró-equipamentos funds)
1.4) 1 Stereoscopic microscope with micrometric reticle
1.5) 1 Stereoscopic microscope with camera lucida
1.6) 3 Stereoscopic microscopes with attached digital camera
1.7) 1 Rotation microton with sharpener
1.8) 1 FlexBoart VSR 9.5 inflatable boat with 25HP Mercury engine
1.9) 1 Low-pressure vacuum pump
1.10) 1 Vertical laminar flow cabin
1.11) 1 Germination chamber with photoperiod control
1.12) 2 BOD incubators
1.13) 1 Deionizer with conductivity sensor and optical alarm
1.14) 1 Water distiller with purity below 3S
1.15) 1 Sterilization and drying oven with air circulation system
1.16) 2 Horizontal freezers
1.17) 1 Duplex refrigerator
1.18) 1 Magnetic stirrer with heating
1.19) 1 Mechanical stirrer with height and tilt regulator
1.20) 2 Portable oximeters with temperature gauge
1.21) 3 Portable and benchtop pH meters with temperature gauge
1.22) 2 Benchtop turbidimeters
1.23) 2 Portable and benchtop digital conductivity meters
1.24) 3 Microcomputers
1.25) 2 Xenon sources
1.26) 1 Field flowmeter
1.27) 3 Precision scale
1.28) 1 Digital thermo-hygro-anemometer-luxmeter
1.29) 3 Multiparameter probes for field water analysis
1.30) 1 30-liter digital horizontal autoclave
1.31) 2 Notebooks
1.32) 1 Nokia D80 digital camera
1.33) 2 25HP outboard motors
1.34) 1 Aluminum boat
1.35) 1 Boat trailer
2. Environmental Chemistry Laboratory
2.1) 2 Non-heated magnetic stirrers
2.2) 1 Heated magnetic stirrer
2.3) 2 Digital electronic analytical scales
2.4) 1 Water bath with stirring, stainless steel cabinet
2.5) 1 Ultra-thermostatized bath with circulation pump
2.6) 1 Nitrogen distiller (analog system)
2.7) 1 Digester block
2.8) 2 Vacuum pumps with vacuum gauge and pressure gauge
2.9) 2 Peristaltic pumps with microcontroller digital control
2.10) 1 4-channel peristaltic pump
2.11) 1 Digital burette
2.12) 1 Chlorimeter
2.13) 1 Digital benchtop conductivity meter
2.14) 1 Hach set containing pH meter, conductivity meter and spectrophotometer
2.15) 1 Water distiller with purity below 3 µS
2.16) 1 Water distiller with purity below 0.5 µS
2.17) 1 BOD incubator chamber
2.18) 1 Spectrophotometer absorption (325 to 1100nm)
2.19) 2 Absorption spectrophotometers (195 to 1100nm)
2.20) 1 Weather station
2.21) 2 Sterilization and drying ovens
2.22) 1 Vacuum sterilization and drying oven
2.23) 1 Rotary evaporator
2.24) 1 Flame photometer
2.25) 1 Shaking table
2.26) 1 Muffle furnace
2.27) 1 Portable oximeter
2.28) 1 Portable pH meter
2.29) 1 Benchtop pH meter
2.30) 1 Potentiostat/Galvanostat PGSTAT 30 AUTOLAB
2.31) 1 Ultrasound
2.32) 2 Microcomputers
2.33) 1 Oxidative stability analyzer - Rancimat
2.34) 1 Potentiometric titrator
3. Multidisciplinary Spectroscopic Analysis Laboratory
3.1) 1 Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer
3.2) 1 Portable near infrared spectrometer
3.3) 1 High resolution portable spectrometer 200-1100mm
3.4) 1 High sensitivity portable spectrometer 200-1100mm
3.5) 1 Spectrofluorimeter
3.6) 1 Deuterium-Tungsten Source
3.7) 1 Xenon Source
3.8) 1 Argon Laser - 360, 457, 476, 488, 496, 514, 1090nm
3.9) 1 Laser Dye Laser - 570 to 660nm
3.10) 1 Ti-sapphire Laser - 700 to 1050nm
3.11) 2 Semiconductor Laser - 532nm
3.12) 3 HeNe Laser - 632.8nm
3.13) 1 YAG:Nd:3+ Laser with OPO
3.14) 1 Box-Car
3.15) 1 Lock-in Amplifier
3.16) 2 Chopper-type electromechanical modulators
3.17) 1 Shutter-type electromechanical modulator
3.18) 1 Oriel Triple Monochromator
3.19) 1 iHR320 Triple Monochromator
3.20) 1 iHR550 Triple Monochromator
3.21) 1 Sphere integrator
3.22) 3 Digital oscilloscopes
3.23) 2 Power meters
3.24) 1 Optical table (1.10x3.00) meters
3.25) 2 Optical tables (1.20x1.50) meters
3.26) 1 Optical table (1.20x0.60) meters
3.27) 1 iCCD detector
3.28) 1 InGaAs detector
3.29) 1 CCD detector
3.30) 1 Photomultiplier detector
3.31) 1 Cryostat
3.31) 2 Notebooks
3.32) 10 Microcomputers
4. Material Synthesis Laboratory
4.1) 1 Magnetic stirrer
4.2) 1 Precision balance with capacity of 500g/RES-0.001g
4.3) 1 Vacuum pump
4.4) 1 Liquid nitrogen cylinder
4.5) 1 Rotary evaporator
4.6) 1 Duplex refrigerator
4.7) 1 Ultrasonic washer with heating
4.8) 1 Exhaust hood
4.9) 1 Cutter
4.10) 1 Polisher
4.11) 1 Induction furnace
4.12) 2 Muffle furnaces
4.13) 1 Hood
5. Instrumental Analysis Laboratory
5.1) 1 Liquid chromatograph with fluorescence detector and diode array
5.2) 1 Gas chromatograph with ionization detector flame
5.3) 2 Analytical balances
5.4) 1 Centrifugal blower
5.5) 2 Dry-drying sterilization ovens
5.6) 1 pH meter
5.7) 1 Horizontal freezer
5.8) 3 Biplex refrigerators
5.9) 1 Digital centrifuge
5.10) 2 Ultrasonic baths
5.11) 4 Heating mantles
5.12) 2 Heating plates
5.13) 2 Fume hoods
5.14) 1 Semi-analytical balance
5.15) 1 Standard balance
5.16) 1 Laminar flow hood
5.17) 1 Vortex tube shaker
5.18) 1 Chromatographic plate viewer
5.19) 1 Rotary evaporator vacuum
5.20) 1 Ultra-purifier of water
5.21) 1 Homogenizer
5.22) 2 Vacuum pumps
5.23) 1 Spectrophotometer
5.24) 1 Refrigerated bath with circulation
5.25) 1 Bacteriological culture oven
5.26) 1 Refrigerated centrifuge
5.27) 1 Double system transluminator
5.28) 1 Knife mill
5.29) 1 Galvanostat potentiostat
5.30) 1 Glass water distiller
5.31) 1 Water deionizer
5.32) 1 Oil distiller
5.33) 2 Tanks for electrophoresis (horizontal and vertical)
5.34) 1 Electrophoresis source
5.35) 1 Block digester
5.36) 1 Solid phase extraction set
5.37) 1 Liquid chromatograph with diode array detector and refractive index
5.38) 1 Gas chromatograph with mass detector
5.39) 1 Liquid chromatograph coupled to spectrometer and masses
6. Biochemistry and Transformation Laboratory
6.1) 1 Laminar flow hood
6.2) 1 Spectrophotometer
6.3) 1 Microbiological oven
6.4) 1 Water bath
6.5) 1 Tube shaker
6.6) 1 Shaking table
6.7) 1 Digital benchtop pH meter
6.8) 1 Digital benchtop conductivity meter
7. Behavioral Ecology Laboratory
7.1) 1 Analytical balance
7.2) 1 Water bath
7.3) 1 Pump Vacuum
7.4) 1 Incubation chamber
7.5) 1 Digital camera
7.6) 1 Photographic camera
7.7) 1 Professional camera
7.8) 1 Semi-professional camera
7.9) 1 Chest freezer
7.10) 1 Upright freezer
7.11) 2 Refrigerators
7.12) 1 GPS
7.13) 3 Magnifying glasses
7.14) 1 Magnifying glass lamp
7.15) 1 Long-distance meter
7.16) 1 Digital luminosity meter
7.17) 1 Microscope
7.18) 1 Environmental multimeter
7.19) 1 Digital caliper
7.20) 1 Drill
7.21) 1 Infrared thermometer
7.22) 2 VortexMixer
7.23) 1 Vertical autoclave
8. Laboratory for preparation, characterization and applications of electrochemical sensors
8.1) 1 potentiostat/Galvanostat
8.2) 1 potentiostat/Galvanostat with the following modules: EQCM: ElectrochemicalQuartz Crystal Microbalance module. FRA32M: Electrochemicalimpedancespectroscopy module. SCAN250: True linear scangenerator module. pX1000: Voltageand pH measurement module. rotating disk electrode (RDE). Voltammetry: LSV Linear SweepVoltammetry, CV CyclicVoltammetry, SWV Square WaveVoltammetry, DPV Differential Pulse Voltammetry, Amperometry: AmperometricDetection, PulsedAmperometricDetection.
8.3) 1 pH meter
8.4) 1 polisher
9. Chemical Technology Development Center - CDTEQ
9.1) 1 HPLC
9.2) 1 Gas chromatograph with flame ionization detector
9.3) 2 Analytical balances
9.4) 1 Semi-analytical balance
9.5) 2 Drying ovens
9.6) 1 pH meter
9.7) 1 Dip-coat
9.8) 1 Refrigerator
9.9) 1 UPS
9.10) 2 Heating mantles
9.11) 2 Heating plates
9.12) 2 Fume hoods
9.13) 1 Vortex tube shaker
9.14) 1 Chromatographic plate viewer
9.15) 2 Vacuum rotary evaporators
9.16) 2 Vacuum pumps
9.17) 1 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
9.18) 1 Colorimeter
9.19) 1 Refrigerated bath with circulation
9.20) 1 Refrigerated centrifuge
9.21) 1 Glass water distiller
9.22) 2 Sample calcination furnaces (Muffle furnace)
9.23) 1 Grinding mill
9.24) 1 Digester block
9.25) 1 Total nitrogen determination apparatus
9.26) 3 Magnetic stirrers with heating
9.27) 1 Oil extractor
9.28) 2 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
9.29) 1 Infrared- FTIR
9.30) 2 Digital electronic cryoscope
9.31) 1 Oil extractor press
10. Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Advanced Materials -LIMAN
10.1) 2 Fume hoods
10.2) 1 Muffle furnace with 40 L internal chamber and range up to 1200 ºC
10.3) 1 Muffle furnace with 20 L internal chamber and range up to 1100 ºC.
10.4) 1 Microprocessor-based mechanism for thin film deposition process by dip-coating
10.5) 1 Automated dehumidifier
10.6) 1 Humidity meter
10.7) 1 UVA-UVB radiation meter
10.8) 1 Infrared remote temperature meter
10.9) 1 Benchtop pH meter
10.10) 1 Benchtop multimeter
10.11) 1 Milli-Q deionizer
10.12) 1 Thermostatic bath with continuous circulation with temperature control from 5 to 90 ºC
10.13) 1 Stirring plates with heating
10.14) 1 Air compressor with filtration and interconnected circuit throughout the laboratory
10.15) 1 Porosity and surface area analyzer.
10.16) 1 Analytical balance
10.17) 1 Stirring plate with heating
10.18) 1 Drying oven with forced circulation
10.19) 1 Stirring plate with heating
10.20) 1 Drying oven with forced circulation
10.21) 1 Multiparameter for conductivity, pH and suspended solids
10.22) 1 Vacuum pump
10.23) 1 Safety trap system for vacuum
10.24) 1 Peristaltic pump
10.25) 1 Ultrasonic washer
10.26) 2 darkrooms for photocatalysis
11. Soils Laboratory
11.1) 1 Magnetic stirrer
11.2) 1 Mechanical stirrer
11.3) 1 Analytical balance
11.4) 1 Water bath sand
11.5) 1 Electric Water Bath
11.6) 1 Digester Block
11.7) 1 Digital Burette
11.8) 1 Fume Hood
11.9) 1 Benchtop Centrifuge
11.10) 1 Hot Plate
11.11) 1 Digital Conductivity Meter
11.12) 1 Deionizer
11.13) 1 Nitrogen Distiller
11.14) 1 pH Meter
11.15) 1 Orbital Shaking Table
11.16) 1 Mill
11.17) 1 Soil Penetrometer
11.18) 1 Resin Separator
11.19) 1 Portable Dissolved Oxygen Meter
11.20) 1 Photometer Flames
11.21) 1 Ultraviolet Visible Spectrophotometer
11.22) 1 Semi-automatic Pipettor
11.23) 1 Resin Reclaimer
11.24) 1 Benchtop Sample Divider