Acquisition of a Liquid Chromatographer and Mass Spectrometer (LC/MS) system - 64hrs of use per month

生物炼制技术扩大中心（BTSC）是在新布伦瑞克社区学院（CCNB）成立的一个研究小组，专门研究生物炼制方案的优化，以从天然生物质中获得高质量的产品。他们的使命是帮助中小型企业解决与扩大生产相关的生物技术挑战，以满足商业需求。自成立以来，BTSC已与来自林业、农业、农学、食品和饮料以及海产品增值等各种工业部门的几家中小型加拿大企业合作。其中一些应用研究项目需要进行一系列分析化学分析，以表征其规模扩大过程所有阶段的原料和转化产品的质量。本应用研究工具和仪器（阿尔蒂）补助申请的主要目标是为BTSC获得液相色谱/质谱仪（LC/MS）。液相色谱法是从给定样品中物理分离感兴趣的化合物的过程，而质谱法允许表征其化学组成。此次收购将使BTSC能够（1）满足完成其正在进行的研究项目所需的所有分析要求，（2）扩大其应用研究专业知识的范围，（3）吸引与当地企业的更多未来合作伙伴关系，（4）提高其研究人员以及所有参加生物技术计划的CCNB学生的培训质量，（5）提高科研的整体质量。

The Biorefinery Technology Scale-Up Centre (BTSC) is a research group established at the Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) that specializes in the optimization of biorefinery protocols for the acquisition of high quality products from natural biomass. Their mission is to help small and medium businesses solve biotechnical challenges associated with scaling-up production to meet commercial demands. Since their foundation, BTSC have partnered with several small and medium Canadian businesses from a wide variety of industrial sectors such as forestry, agriculture, agronomy, food and beverages and marine product valorisation. Several of these applied research projects require a series of analytical chemistry analyses to characterize the quality of raw and transformed products across all stages of their scaling up procedure. The main goal of this Applied Research Tools and Instruments (ARTI) grant application is to acquire a liquid chromatograph / mass spectrometer (LC/MS) for the BTSC. Liquid chromatography is the process of physically separating a chemical compound of interest from a given sample while mass spectrometry allows for the characterization of its chemical composition. This acquisition would allow BTSC to (1) meet all the analytical requirements needed to complete their ongoing research projects, (2) expand their range of applied research expertise, (3) attract additional future partnerships with local businesses, (4) improve the quality of training for their research staff as well as all CCNB students enrolled in the biotechnology program, and (5) improve the overall quality of their research.