The X-Ray Powder Diffraction Lab is equipped with a Panalytical Empyrean X-Ray Diffractometer, which includes two different types of tubes: a cobalt-tube and a copper-tube. It also includes a PIXcel 1 Detector, which is capable of very fast measuring, a sample-changer with a 15-round magazine, and fixed divergence slit optics with different apertures from 1/16° – 2°.

A Rigaku Miniflex 600 is used for solids (sediments and rocks; powdered samples) to determine (semi-quantitatively) the mineral composition of calcite, quartz etc.