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Integra2
This combined EA-IRMS is a product unique to Sercon
The world’s only benchtop combined EA-IRMS
Introducing the Integra2, Sercon Limited’s exclusive offering as the only benchtop combined EA-IRMS. This innovative system seamlessly incorporates the high-level design features of our renowned IRMS and EA instruments, featuring trapping loop technology, a stainless steel flight tube, and a thoria-coated filament resistant to oxidation. The high sensitivity source is now available as an optional upgrade, further enhancing analytical capabilities. Exclusively designed by Sercon, the Integra2 stands as a unique product, delivering excellent data whilst giving excellent budgetary value. Capable of simultaneous analysis for both 15N and 13C, with optional 34S or 18O configurations, the Integra2 emerges as the most cost-effective, user-friendly elemental and isotopic analyser on the market. Elevate your analytical capabilities with Sercon’s Integra2 for unparalleled performance and affordability.
Transform your isotopic analysis experience with Sercon Limited’s revolutionary combined EA-IRMS, a instrument that redefines efficiency in the field.
Features
Explore the exceptional features that set this instrument apart:
- World’s Only Combined EA-IRMS: Sercon Limited proudly presents the world’s sole Elemental Analyzer and Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer (EA-IRMS) in one, uniting advanced technologies for precise isotopic analysis.
- Comprehensive Isotope Analysis: Achieve precise 13C and 15N analysis with additional options for 18O and 34S. Sercon’s EA-IRMS ensures a thorough exploration of isotopic compositions.
- Compact and Portable Design: Experience unprecedented portability with a lightweight, compact, and semi-portable design. Ideal for remote research stations and onboard ships, this instrument empowers field researchers with its versatility.
- Reference Gas-Free Operation: Eliminate the need for a reference gas as the combusted sample gas is utilized for tuning. This innovative approach enhances convenience and reduces operational complexities.
- On-Site Data Generation: Generate data in the field, eliminating the need for sample storage, transportation, and the associated risk of fractionation effects. Sercon’s EA-IRMS is designed for real-time insights without compromise.
- Extended Geometry for Precision: Benefit from a 120° extended geometry with an 11cm radius magnetic sector, providing an effective 21cm radius dispersion and true stigmatic focusing. The asymmetric extended geometry enhances reproducibility and minimizes sensitivity to magnet positioning.
- Universal Faraday Triple Collectors: Simultaneously collect adjacent masses without adjustments in the range 28, 29, 30 – 44, 45, 46 with truly universal Faraday triple collectors. This feature adds flexibility and efficiency to your analysis.
- Efficient and Compact Design: The asymmetric extended geometry, combined with a shorter path length, ensures near 100% transmission through the analyser while reducing ion/molecule interactions. The design minimizes the effect of temperature drift and enhances reproducibility.
- Long-Life Ion Source: Utilize an electron impact ion source with a thoria-coated iridium filament, ensuring a long lifespan and easy replacement. This feature underscores Sercon’s commitment to durability and user-friendly operation.
- Minimal Maintenance: Incorporating a permanent magnet, active pressure gauge, and turbomolecular vacuum pump, the EA-IRMS keeps maintenance to a minimum. Sercon’s dedication to reliability ensures consistent performance over time.
- Versatile Autosamplers: Choose from 80, 120, and 180 place autosamplers with holes of different diameters to accommodate various sample sizes. This flexibility streamlines your workflow and enhances efficiency.
- Advanced Gas Control: High-quality stainless steel diaphragm regulators for gas control, digital flow and pressure sensors, and normally closed valves configured to save gas and preserve consumables in the event of a power failure. Sercon’s commitment to precision extends to every aspect of gas control.
Step into the future of isotopic analysis with Sercon Limited’s Integra2 EA-IRMS, where innovation meets portability, and precision meets simplicity.
Application Notes
Software
- Total software control of the instrument system and data processing with Sercon Calisto software
- Allows storage of sample analysis protocols to comply with good laboratory practice
- Standby mode to preserve consumable life during periods of low use
- Software controlled oxygen injection to match sample requirements thereby preserving the life of the consumables
- Inter-file import/export facility from instrument PC to laboratory server or internet (allows rapid updating of software or transfer to common spreadsheet packages)
- Fully compatible with all versions of Windows
Service
At Sercon we pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and support. We genuinely care about our customers and want to help you get the best performance from your instruments.
Visit our service area to find out how we can support you with service contracts, emergency visits, upgrades, system refurbishments and training.
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Product News
Installation at the University of Vienna
Installation at the University of Vienna June saw Systems Engineer Tom Iordanidis at the University of Vienna, undertaking an Integra2 system installation together with training in the system and its software for Katerina Douka from the Department of Evolutionary...
The world’s only benchtop combined EA-IRMS
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Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei in Taiwan
Service and maintenance visit to the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei in Taiwan Thomas Iordanidis, one of our team of systems engineers, is just back from a service and maintenance visit to the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica,...
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de Chile Service Engineer Henry Cooke has recently completed a service visit to the Universidad de Chile in Santiago. The client, Sótero Astaburuaga Ossa from the Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas runs a Sercon Integra2, used in their Agrosciences research....
Integra2 Install, Oxford University
Integra2 Install, Oxford University Sercon Engineer Thomas Iordanidis has recently completed the installation of an Integra2 IRMS for Oxford University’s research laboratory for archaeology & the history of art. Start up training was also provided to Peter...
National Honey Day UK
Celebrating UK National Honey Day The British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA) celebrates National Honey Day on 21st October each year. According to the International Trade Centre, the UK imported an average of 50,917 tonnes of honey in 2023. Some of this will have...
University of Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma Systems Engineer Rob Kameny visited the Stable Isotope Measurement Facility at the University of Oklahoma last month to assist with the relocation and recommissioning of a Sercon Integra2 to their new lab. Designed to support the study of carbon...
Service Visit to New Caledonia
Service Visit to New Caledonia Our Systems Engineers travel far and wide for installations as well as regular service visits to our customer base around the world. The southwest Pacific Ocean island of New Caledonia was a recent service and maintenance stop for Rob...
Nanjing Normal University Installation
Nanjing Normal University Late last year, Senior Field Service & Installation Engineer Dave Harris travelled to China to for a CryoPrep installation and to train our agent for future installations. Chao He from agent Lab Tech, is supporting researchers Meiqi Chen,...
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules
Honey Adulteration New EU Rules Since the end of November, third party countries exporting honey and other apiculture products to the EU for human consumption must be registered, and consignments may only enter the bloc if they are despatched from, obtained and/or...
Monaco Service Visit
Systems Engineer Rob Kameny undertook a routine service visit to the Marine Biology department at the Centre Scientifique de Monaco last month. The lab, led by Dr Renaud Grover, runs a Sercon Integra2, and their work aims to understand the effects of climatic...
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana Service engineer Dave Harris recently found himself at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. This time, his work was at the Center for Environmental Science and Technology, where he worked with Stable...
Queen Mary University
Queen Mary University Service Engineer Dave Harris visited the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences at Queen Mary University, London recently to service an Integra2 (N&C) and an HS2022 & ANCA/GSL for Ian Sanders, Organismal Analytical Laboratories...
Ohio State University Installation
Ohio State University Installation The Lal Carbon Center at Ohio State University plan to use their new Sercon INTEGRA2, recently installed by Senior Engineer Dave Harris, for agricultural testing purposes. Mainly looking at 15N and 13C data via combustion but also,...
Honey Adulteration Lab Service
Service engineer Dave Harris visited the Interfind laboratory to service a Sercon Integra2 combined benchtop integrated EA-IRMS in Thessaloniki last week. Melinda Ltd combines has combined traditional beekeeping techniques with the most state-of-the-art facilities in...
High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2
High sensitivity source now available in the Integra2 The Sercon high sensitivity source is now available as an optional upgrade in the Integra2. Giving improved sensitivity and a larger dynamic range, the high sensitivity source allows researchers to measure small...