Novel Low-Maintenance Cryogenics for New Analytic Instrument

在制药和病理实验室中，对分析仪器的应用有很大的需求。该项目的目的是开发冷却技术，通过建造和评估演示器来减少新型仪器的占地面积、运营成本和维护。该项目将需要开发一种新产品，并与寻求实现业务多元化的一家英国供应商密切合作。未来的产品将促进医学的进步，但该项目的主要重点是工程创新。现有的同类仪器包含一个需要重新填充的大液氦浴缸，它们占据了很大的空间。取而代之的是，我们的系统使用了一种设备，它消除了冷冻剂的补充，降低了总成本。但要在新仪器上使用这项技术，还需要有重大的技术进步。新产品将使我们的营业额在5年内大幅增长。这将使我们能够进入分析仪器的主要市场，其中很大一部分是我们可以解决的。新的重要市场也可能在其他领域开放。

There is a great need for analytic instrumentation suitable for applications in pharmaceutical and pathology labs. The aim of this project is to develop cooling technology that reduces the footprint, operating costs and maintenance of a novel instrument by building and evaluating a demonstrator. The project will entail developing a novel product and working closely with a UK supplier seeking to diversify its business. The future product will facilitate advances in medicine, but the main focus of the project is the engineering innovation. Existing comparable instruments contain a large bath of liquid helium which requires refilling and they occupy lots of space. Instead, our system uses a device that eliminates cryogen refills and lowers the overall cost. But significant development of the technology is required in order to use it on the new instrument. The new product will allow us to grow turnover substantially over 5 years. It will allow us to enter a major market for analytic instrumentation, with a significant fraction addressable to us. New significant markets are also likely to open in other sectors.