Fully Automated Simultaneous Photometric and Electrochemical Discrete Analyzer

全自动同时光度和电化学离散分析仪

• 批准号: RTI-2023-00135
• 负责人: Hamza, Rania
• 金额: $ 10.86万
• 依托单位: Ryerson University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=749350
• 关键词: Fully; Automated; Simultaneous; Photometric; Electrochemical

The requested equipment is a fully automated simultaneous photometric and electrochemical discrete analyzer (PEDA), with a robotic sampling arm for high throughput measurement of various parameters in water and wastewater (WW). The proposed equipment will be of immense value to advance the research programs of several researchers across faculties at Ryerson (RU) whose research requires analysis of wet chemistries. The proposed equipment offers low reagent use, low waste generation and true unattended operation. The robotic sampling arm aspirates and dispenses precise quantities of the sample (in µL) and reagents in discrete reaction wells for incubation over a pre-programmed period, emulating the manual colorimetric methods. The appealing characteristics of the proposed equipment, which is computer-controlled, include automatic dilution and preparation of standards and ability to run many different chemistry tests from each sample in the same run. The proposed equipment will serve three main purposes: (a) rapid and automated measurement of key water and WW parameters for monitoring bioprocesses and scalable bioprocess development for municipal and industrial WW treatment and biosolids management technologies, (b) enable essential investigations into effects of various operating and environmental conditions on the performance of key functional organisms in bioreactor-systems, and (c) validate developed bioengineering technologies. The requested fully automated PEDA will be installed in the newly established innovative Water Research and Resource Recovery lab - WR3 to support various NSERC funded research programs as well as funded projects in water and WW engineering, green technologies, resource recovery from WW, biosolids and bioenergy, urban infrastructure, biogeochemical and soil science applications, and forestry among others. Users at RU will be using the PEDA on a high frequency basis, training at least 25 HQP per year, validating the need and urgency of the fully automated wet chemistry analyzer system. The ability to use the fully automated PEDA will allow high throughput, rapid, and accurate testing, in parallel with liberating HQP from tiresome and monotonous tasks, which will vastly improve the performance of experiments required for validation of biotechnologies and environmental analysis. Availability of this equipment will define new objectives in present and future projects that can lead to ground-breaking research in developing novel microbial processes, resynthesis and recovery of high-value products, patentable, commercialization-ready modular water and WW treatment systems for industrial applications, and for retrofitting ?existing plants. In addition, the in-house availability of PEDA will facilitate HQP training on cutting-edge bioprocessing techniques that are presently commonplace in many scientific sectors including industrial biotechnology, environmental technology, and bioenergy.

所要求的设备是一台全自动同步光度和电化学离散分析仪（PEDA），带有一个自动取样臂，用于高通量测量水和废水（WW）中的各种参数。拟议中的设备将具有巨大的价值，以推进Ryerson（RU）各学院的几位研究人员的研究计划，他们的研究需要分析湿化学。所建议的设备提供低试剂使用、低废物产生和真正的无人值守操作。机器人采样臂吸取并分配精确量的样品（以微升计）和试剂到离散反应威尔斯孔中，在预编程的时间内进行孵育，模拟手动比色法。建议的设备，这是计算机控制的吸引人的特点，包括自动稀释和标准品的制备和能力，运行许多不同的化学测试，从每个样品在同一个运行。拟议的设备将用于三个主要目的：（a）快速和自动测量关键水和WW参数，用于监测生物过程和用于市政和工业WW处理和生物固体管理技术的可扩展生物过程开发，（B）使得能够对各种操作和环境条件对生物反应器系统中关键功能生物体的性能的影响进行必要的研究，及（c）验证已发展的生物工程技术。所要求的全自动PEDA将安装在新成立的创新水研究和资源回收实验室-WR 3，以支持各种NSERC资助的研究计划，以及水和WW工程，绿色技术，WW资源回收，生物固体和生物能源，城市基础设施，地球化学和土壤科学应用以及林业等资助项目。RU的用户将频繁使用PEDA，每年至少培训25名HQP，验证全自动湿化学分析仪系统的需求和紧迫性。使用全自动PEDA的能力将允许高通量，快速和准确的测试，同时将HQP从无聊和单调的任务中解放出来，这将大大提高生物技术和环境分析验证所需的实验性能。该设备的可用性将定义当前和未来项目的新目标，这些项目可以在开发新型微生物工艺，高价值产品的再合成和回收，可专利，商业化的模块化水和WW处理系统方面进行突破性研究，用于工业应用和改造？现有工厂。此外，PEDA的内部可用性将促进HQP在尖端生物加工技术方面的培训，这些技术目前在许多科学领域都很常见，包括工业生物技术，环境技术和生物能源。