MRI: Acquisition of a Gas Chromatography Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer for Research and Teaching at Maine Maritime Academy

MRI：采购气相色谱三重四极杆质谱仪用于缅因海事学院的研究和教学

• 批准号: 1625712
• 负责人: Carey Friedman
• 金额: $ 38.16万
• 依托单位: Maine Maritime Academy
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1625712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Gas; Chromatography; Triple

This project enables Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to purchase and maintain a gas chromatograph - tandem mass spectrometry instrument (GC-MS/MS). This instrument will play a vital role in the research of a number of Maine Maritime faculty and a supporting role in the research of partners and collaborators at other Maine colleges/universities, a regional conservation group, and the environmental laboratory of a native Maine tribe. The instrument will also be immediately incorporated into the curricula of eight MMA classes offered by the Engineering and Ocean Science departments. A variety of novel research projects across diverse fields of study will be enabled by the GC-MS/MS system resulting from this project including biofuel chemistry, marine and environmental chemistry, ocean science, water pollution and remediation and bioengineering. In particular, molecular reactions important to biomass thermochemical conversions to fuels and chemicals; the characterization, transport and fate of persistent organic pollutants, such as dioxins and furans, in atmospheric and marine environments will be mapped locally to predict impacts; environmental and human processes on the impact and fate of organic anthropogenic contaminants, such as PAHs, PCBs and oil, will be quantified leading to enhanced environmental forensics capabilities; low energy desulfurization pathways for residual petroleum and bitumen feedstock upgrading will be developed; and the presence and techno-economic feasibility of isolating new compounds from understudied micro-algae extracellular environments will be explored. These projects will engage the entire Maine Maritime Academy community including undergraduate student researchers, students in the classroom, and faculty and staff.

该项目使缅因海事学院 (MMA) 能够购买和维护一台气相色谱-串联质谱仪 (GC-MS/MS)。该仪器将在缅因州海事学院的许多教员的研究中发挥至关重要的作用，并在缅因州其他学院/大学、区域保护小组和缅因州本土部落的环境实验室的合作伙伴和合作者的研究中发挥支持作用。该仪器还将立即纳入工程和海洋科学系提供的八个 MMA 课程的课程中。该项目产生的 GC-MS/MS 系统将支持跨不同研究领域的各种新颖研究项目，包括生物燃料化学、海洋和环境化学、海洋科学、水污染和修复以及生物工程。特别是，分子反应对于生物质热化学转化为燃料和化学品很重要；将在当地绘制二恶英和呋喃等持久性有机污染物在大气和海洋环境中的特征、迁移和归宿，以预测影响；环境和人类过程对多环芳烃、多氯联苯和石油等有机人为污染物的影响和命运将进行量化，从而增强环境取证能力；将开发渣油和沥青原料升级的低能耗脱硫途径；并将探讨从未充分研究的微藻细胞外环境中分离新化合物的存在及其技术经济可行性。这些项目将吸引整个缅因海事学院社区的参与，包括本科生研究人员、课堂上的学生以及教职员工。