LABORATORY MEMBERS
Personnel:
• Konstantinos Kourtidis, Ph.D., Professor (director of the Lab) (kourtidi@env.duth.gr)
• Alexandra Gkemitzi, Ph.D., Professor (agkemitz@env.duth.gr)
• Evangelia Kostenidou, Ph.D., Assist. Professor (ekosteni@env.duth.gr)
LABORATORY DETAILS
Address:
Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Pollution Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants,
Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Vas. Sofias 12, 67100 Xanthi, GREECE
Contact:
Tel.: +30-25410-79383
Tel.: +30-25410-79748
Tel.: +30- 25410-79314
Links:
Web: atmosphys.env.duth.gr/
MISSION
Learning objectives of all taught courses:
I. Monitoring and assessment of air pollution.
II. Monitoring and analysis of data on biogeochemical cycles, detecting consequences of Climate Change.
III. Analysis and interpretation of data related to air pollution, weather and climate.
IV. Application of atmospheric models.
V. Applying remote sensing and spatiotemporal analysis in problems related to the atmospheric environment and the hydrological cycle.
VI. Monitoring of the Urban Heat Island, suggesting air quality improvement strategies for cities.
VII. Monitoring, assessment and management of indoor air quality.
VIII. Monitoring, assessment and management of industrial emissions.
IX. Developing critical thinking when working in complex environmental issues.
The Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and of Control Engineering of Atmospheric Pollutants is part of the Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace. The Laboratory collaborates with other university departments and institutions in environmental studies, dealing with national, regional and global problems of the atmospheric environment. The personnel of the laboratory is involved in teaching Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctorate level courses.
RESEARCH AIMS
Scientific aims of research endeavours:
– Urban and regional air pollution (including indoor air pollution), transboundary and global air pollution.
– Climate, greenhouse gases, carbon fluxes, biogeochemistry.
– Cloud-aerosol-water vapour interactions and their relation to direct and indirect climate forcing. Aerosol physicochemical and optical properties.
– Hydrological cycle.
– Remote sensing and spatiotemporal analysis.
– Land surface-atmosphere and ocean-atmosphere interactions
– Occupational safety and health.
– Atmospheric electricity, electric and magnetic fields in the environment.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The laboratory is equipped with numerous state of the art instruments like:
– a nephelometer,
– a VG Trio GC-MS with a Turbo-matrix Thermal desorber
– a DIONEX ion chromatograph,
– 2 high volume impactors with PM10 heads,
– 2 high volume dichotomous virtual impactors,
– a permeation device gas diluter,
– numerous low volume filter packs and denuders,
– a high precision balance and a suit of laboratory hardware and glassware.
– Cavity Ring Down Spectrometer with 10Hz sampling rate for the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and H2O.
– Gaseous Hg analyser with detection limit of 5ng m-3
– Particle size analyser for number concentrations for diameters from 4 nm-10,000 nm
– High Resolution magnetic sector GC- DFMS.
– High Resolution ultra high pressure liquid chromatography coupled to MS/MS UHPLC-MS/MS
– High energy, wavelength dispersive XRF for 99 elements in liquid or solid samples.
– weather stations with remote data transfer.
– a sound analysis spectrometer,
– a zirconium O2 analyser
– a RAMON radon monitor
– a MicroTOPS Ozone and water vapor total column and UV photometer
– a CS110 electric field sensor
