Our recent work
The UWA Separation Science and Mass Spectrometry Platform, which opened in April 2022, houses instruments for the analysis and identification of organic molecules in a broad range of samples. From bromoform in red seaweed to reduce methane emissions in cattle, to azole fungicides in agricultural soils investigating fungal resistance to identification and discovery of new/novel compounds from natural products that one day might be another medicine or even that compound in smoke that promotes germination of Australian native plants. With individual instruments worth up to $1M, a high purity gas source and supply is critical to optimum instrument operation and long-term care of the instruments. The gas needs of the Platform cover a wide range, from hydrogen, methane to nitrogen, helium, and air, including in-house vacuum.
