Fully Automated Simultaneous Photometric and Electrochemical Discrete Analyzer

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），带有一个机器人采样臂，用于高通量测量水和废水（WW）中的各种参数。该设备对于推进Ryerson （RU）多个院系的研究人员的研究项目具有巨大的价值，他们的研究需要分析湿化学物质。所建议的设备具有低试剂使用量，低废物产生和真正的无人值守操作。机器人取样臂吸气和分配精确数量的样品（以微升为单位）和试剂在离散的反应井中进行孵育，在预先设定的时间内，模拟手动比色法。该设备由计算机控制，其吸引人的特点包括标准品的自动稀释和制备，以及在同一次运行中对每个样品进行多种不同化学测试的能力。拟议的设备将有三个主要目的：(a)用于监测生物过程和可扩展的生物过程开发的关键水和WW参数的快速和自动化测量，用于市政和工业WW处理和生物固体管理技术；(b)能够对生物反应器系统中各种操作和环境条件对关键功能生物性能的影响进行必要的调查；(c)验证开发的生物工程技术。要求的全自动PEDA将安装在新成立的创新水研究和资源恢复实验室WR3中，以支持NSERC资助的各种研究项目，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、生物地球化学和土壤科学应用以及林业等方面的资助项目。RU的用户将频繁使用PEDA，每年培训至少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从繁琐和单调的任务中解放出来，这将极大地提高生物技术验证和环境分析所需的实验性能。该设备的可用性将为当前和未来的项目确定新的目标，这些项目可以在开发新的微生物过程，高价值产品的再合成和回收，可专利的商业化模块化水和污水处理系统方面进行突破性研究，用于工业应用，以及改造。现有的植物。此外，PEDA的内部可用性将促进HQP对尖端生物处理技术的培训，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。

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.