Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast

Senior Engineer Dave Harris visited the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute in Belfast last week to reinstall their old 2022 & CryoPrep so that they can run CO2 samples from the headspaces of plant/soil enclosures.

As this is ambient low volume CO₂ levels, the CyroPrep can be used to trap all available CO₂ (using liquid nitrogen traps) which should mean more accurate analysis.

Dave commented: “This is a method not commonly used on a CryoPrep but it is very good for the sampling of atmospheric levels of CO₂. The instrument had been out of use for 3 years, so it was a busy week setting it up from scratch to meet the requirements of Lab manager Steward Floyd and Colin Roberts as well as Harry McGuiggan, who is running the CO₂ analysis project.”

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