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Several essential consumable items including GC columns, inlet liners, syringes and ferrules were kindly donated by Trajan. CTC Analytics AG kindly donated a preventative maintenance kit and sample tray for the CTC Autosampler.
Temujin Enkhbat installing the GC-FID (National University of Mongolia)
Dr Geriant Morgan (The Open University), Christine Townsend (Trajan Scientifi c), Diane Turner (Anthias Consulting) & Dr Imran Janmohamed (Anthias Consulting) at The Open University after the testing of the integrated instrument.
After testing, the instrument was packaged and shipped to the University of Mongolia by Richard Stokes, also from Anthias Consulting. With the OU’s social justice and international development agenda in mind, Dr Morgan kindly funded the shipping costs to NUM. Meanwhile the University of Manchester donated a Waters LCT accurate mass LC/MS mass spectrometry system that was shipped at the same time to NUM.
Shipping overseas to Mongolia takes a very long time and so it was proposed that a specialist haulage company would be used to assist with the shipping of the instrumentation from the UK through to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. After about a month of travelling overland from Europe and duty-free customs clearance, the instrumentation fi nally arrived at Mongolia in the freezing cold.
Sourcing the reserve cylinders and regulators themselves was a mammoth task and the team spent many hours trying to procure the fi ttings required to connect the GC to the gas cylinder regulators.
In the end, Parker GSFE generously donated new gas generators producing hydrogen, nitrogen and clean dry air, which resolved a huge sustainability problem with the operation of the GC-FID. The gas generators were installed and the entire system is currently operational and available for educational and research purposes.
The instrument is a central pillar to developing the fi rst PAH analysis capabilities in the country, as well as performing critical analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in ambient air during winter. The instrument positions the university to become leaders in the research of transport related pollution and fate of organic compounds in the environment and the resulting impact on humans. The instrument is the fi rst functional Agilent 6890N FID in the university and was described as a major boost. It will be used by many academic staff and students.
Dr Robert Clegg (Left) unpacking with University staff and students helping with the consignment.
The delivery of the GC-FID and a later delivery of the gas generators from Parker GSFE (UK) to the National University of Mongolia.
Dr Robert Clegg, with the help of NUM staff, Enkhdul Tuuguu, Soyol-Erdene Tseren-Ochir and Temujin Enkhbat, installed and commissioned the GC-FID at the university. In advance of the fi rst sample even being run, the new instrument had generated great excitement and promise amongst students and staff of the university.
However, Mongolia does not have the capacity to produce the cleanliness of gases which are imported from China. The cost of the high purity gasses required for the GC-FID inhibited the operational sustainably of instrument for staff at the University.
The addition of sophisticated scientifi c analytical instrumentation to academia not only assists with research but also facilitated training of the next generation of scientists. Top down capacity building through the provision of research opportunities is a key component of economic growth and movement towards a knowledge based economy.
References
1. Allen, R.W., Gombojav, E., Barkhasragchaa, B., Byamba a, T., Lkhasuren, O., Amram, O., Takaro, T.K., Janes, C.R., 2011. An assessment of air pollution and its attributable mortality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health 6, 137–150.
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