Contact Us

Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis
(Lab Director)
Phone: +30-28210-37785
Fax: +30-28210-37847
E-mail: Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis

Address: 
H.E.R.S. Lab,
Environmental Eng. Dept., 
Technical University of Crete, 
73100, Chania, Crete, Greece


 

H.E.R.S. Lab Equipment

Field equipment:

  • Continues telemetric field station - MultiTroll 9500
  • Groundwater sampling device that does not expose the water to the atmosphere
  • Field meters that measure pH, DO, Eh, T and conductivity using electrode probes
  • Flow meter (Global water)
  • Leveloggers, scale 0-29 m with accuracy of 1.0 cm, datalogger with software and IR interface with Barologger (SOLINST)
  • Peristaltic pump for groundwater sampling (SOLINST)
  • Level meter 200 m (SOLINST)
  • Soil sampler
  • Drive-Point-Profiler (SOLINST)
  • Standpipe Piezometers (SOLINST)
  • Manual Slide Hammer & Manual Drive Head Assembly
  • Field Respiration Meters
  • Infiltration Devices
  • GPS Magellan Explorist 400
  • Level loggers

Laboratory equipment:

  • Agilent ICP-MS
  • 2 Soxlet devices
  • Grain Size analysis cylinder and aerometer (3 devices – Bouyoucos method)
  • Sieves and scales
  • Kenldahl
  • Vortex
  • 2 small and 1 large AsRT pilot units to remove arsenic from groundwtater
  • 2 peristaltic pumps
  • Field spectrophotometer Hach DR2010 and DR2800
  • Aeration unit (Air Charger)
  • Slow sand filter
  • Plastic and glass columns for kinetic experiments
  • Shaking table (Stuart) and RONSON shaker
  • Trace Detect Explorer System (Nano-Band Explorer) – Anodic Stripping Voltametry (for arsenic determination at the ppb level)
  • Microwave Digester – Anton Paar
  • Refrigerators
  • Incubator
  • Magnetic Stirrer
  • Nanopure Water Unit
  • Portable HP and ORION pH and Conductivity meters

Software:

  • LSPIV – Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry
  • Med-WMP, BASINS
  • WinHSPF, SWAT
  • QUAL2EU
  • WASP6.0
  • Visual MODFLOW
  • MINEQL+
  • ARCGIS 10/9.3/9.2 
  • Enhanced Trickle Down Model (ETD)
  • Nutrient Transport and Transformation Model (NTT)
  • Heavy Metal Model (HM-1D)
  • Minitab 13
  • Surfer 8
  • Microsoft OS/Office
  • @RISK Palisade

Computer hardware and peripherals:

  • 10 Workstations (DELL/HP)
  • 5 Laptops (DELL/HP)
  • 6 Printers/Plotters (HP)
  • 2 Scanners (HP)
  • 1 Projector (BenQ