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Environmental Evaluation and Remediation (ETER)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation
Location
67, Donath Str., Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, PO: 400293, Cluj (Romania)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Romania
Status
Status
Current Status:
Under construction since 2013
Scientific Description
The contamination of land and groundwater in post-industrial regions, as a result of anthropogenic activities has given rise to numerous impacts resulting in unfavourable end points. In many cases, pollution has affected both land and water sources utilised by local populations. Regulatory agencies, potential developers and those responsible for land remediation are rarely able to consider whether the levels of metals soil contamination comprise an actual hazard. There is a need to establish priorities for remedial action which can take into account all of the factors involved. Decision makers responsible for environmental and health policies therefore need access to a range of information about the extent of dereliction, the levels of pollution - current and projected - to which they are subjected, sources of funding for restoration, legislation and planning requirements. Decision makers need to be aware of the types of remediation available, with an assessment of their relative merits and costs. This requires tight collaboration between chemists, physicists and engineers whithin studies of the complex problems regarding environmental evaluation and remediation.The role of ETER Research Infrastructure is to support and build the development both of new and modern analytical methods for environmental evaluation and innovative and highly adaptable solutions for soil remediation with a wider applicability.

RI Keywords
Environment, Analytical chemistry, Soil remediation, Pollution
Classifications
RI Category
Environmental Health Research Facilities
Scientific Domain
Chemistry and Material Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Services
Access for scientists to carry out focused and trans-disciplinary research activities within the field of environment evaluation and remediation

• Development of modern (spectral) non-conventional methods for analytical investigations with applications in environment protection, health, and food security; • Determination of the chemical forms of metals and some specific persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste materials, soils, dusts and waters to establish their solubility, pathways and potential bioavailability through components of the environment to food plants, domestic livestock and humans, and possible vertical and lateral migration in the soil/water system; • Development of some innovative processes to determine the genetically modified organisms (GMOs), food quality and functional food; • Development of some innovative processes for the determination of the chemical compounds naturally present in foods, pollutants (PAH, pesticides) and additives (preservatives, synthetic colorants and sweeteners); • Development of service ecosystems • Development of environmental technologies destined to prevent pollution and to rehabilitate the environmental factors, both natural and anthropic; • Development of some modern methods for the assessment and monitoring of environmental factors (sol, air, water, vegetation, food); realization of analytical methods for the preservation and management of natural and artificial resources, and realization of modern methods for the food quality assessment. • Elaboration and development of some innovative processes for the environmental quality assessment and development of technologies for environmental restoration. • Development of modern analytical, green methods (extractive, purification, concentration); • Development of modern, advanced analytical techniques for qualitative and quantitative determination of endocrine disruptors from environment factors; • Elaborating advanced strategies for in-situ and on-site soil / groundwater decontamination such as myco-phytoremediation, the use of locally available natural and modified zeolites and other innovative clean up technologies; • Development of QA/QC systems for remediation performance and total emissions; • Development of Cost/effective technologies for groundwater and soil remediation; • Evaluation of the pollutants potential bioavailability related to crops, livestock and humans, integrating air dispersion modelling techniques based on bioavailable fraction of contaminants rather than total concentration

Equipment
State of the Art Environmental Analysis equipment

GC-FID Gas Chromatography with Flame Ionization Detector; GC-MS Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; HPLC High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with Photodiode Array Detection; ICP-OES Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometry; ICP-MS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry; AFS Atomic-Fluorescence Spectrometry;FT IR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry; LC-MS-MS Liquid Chromatogtaphy Mass Spectrometry.

Date of last update: 30/07/2019
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