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 The
Norwegian Institute for Air Research
(NILU) Selects STARLIMS
NILU
is an independent research foundation, undertaking research and
consultancy work for clients all over the
world. The institutes’ work is focused on air pollution problems on
local, regional and global scales. Founded in 1969 NILU has long
experience in various co-ordination tasks in international air research
and monitoring activities. NILU is EN 17025 accredited.
NILU
operates 3 major labs: inorganic, organic, and an instrumentation
development lab.
The
laboratory for inorganic analysis performs more than 100,000
determinations per year of inorganic compounds in samples of air and
precipitation.
The
organic analysis laboratory performs a large number of analyses of
organic compounds in samples of air, precipitation, water and biological
material.
The
dioxin activity is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and has been
approved for such analyses by the WHO. The laboratory has developed and
implemented its own methods for analyzing toxic organochlorines in air,
precipitation and biological samples from the Arctic regions.
The
instrument laboratory develops and adapts instruments and equipment for
sampling or monitoring of air quality. The instrumentation includes
storage media, data loggers, technology for transferring data, and
software development. NILU’s work includes improving sensors,
automatic quality control systems, data transfer and data processing.
NILU
has established an automatic alarm system for the monitoring of
radioactivity in Norway. NILU cooperates with other institutes to
develop improved gas sensors based on spectroscopic measuring techniques
and diode lasers.
NILU
has been working for more than 20 years on the development and
application of models on different scales: Air pollution from streets
and roads; Emissions from industry and individual plants; Dispersion and
exposure in urban areas; Transport, dispersion and deposition on
regional and continental scales; Global problems related to greenhouse
gases, stratospheric and tropospheric ozone and persistent pollutants.
For
more information access the
NILU
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