The Jiaxing laboratory and the YESB have been established in the Sustainable Park in Jiaxing city, in the central part of the Yangtze River Delta. Jiaxing holds an advantageous geographic location, with Lake Tai in the north, and just about a hundred kilometres (62 miles) from Shanghai, Suzhou and Hangzhou. The facilities in the Jiaxing Sustainable Park are shown in the photo.
The Sustainable Park has an area of 100,000 m2, where the Jiaxing-Tongji Environmental Research Institute has two buildings (i.e., experimental and training building) and one underground construction, i.e., the YESB. The layout of the Lab is shown in Figure, with 2000 m2 for sample pre-treatment and instrument analysis, including rooms for sample preparation, storage, washing, heating, weighing, organic analysis pre-treatment, inorganic analysis pre-treatment, instrumental analysis, and cleanroom areas.
The interior of the sample preparation room can be seen in Figure below. Serval instruments, such as total organic carbon analyser, gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, microscopic analysis, are shown Figures below. Based on these facilities, we can analyse the concentrations of organic and inorganic chemicals in environmental samples. In addition, the hazards of pollutants on environmental organisms and human health and also the underlying mechanism can be examined in the laboratories.
