Objective
The Life Science Trace Gas Facility operates a variety of unique state-of-the-art trace gas detectors that allow real time measurements at unprecedented detection levels. The strength of the Facility lies in 15 years of experience with applications in Life Science. During the last 5 years access has been given to 63 European users under FP4 and FP5. Access to this Facility, training, and support will be given to researchers from all fields of Life Science.
They will carry out trace gas experiments that cannot be performed with conventional instrumentation using the highly sensitive detectors that were developed at the Facility. The strength of these instruments resides in the possibility to perform non-invasive, fast (second time scale) and on-line detection of ultra low gas concentrations under rapidly changing external conditions. The infrastructure is equipped for trace detection of gases of interest in Plant physiology, Post harvest research, Soil science, Microbiology, Ecology, Molecular biology, Medicine, and Human health and proved to be indispensable for these fields of research. Amongst these gases are ethylene, ethane, methane, NO, CO, CO2, water vapour, aldehydes, alcohols, ketones, acids, terpenoids, and many other hydrocarbons, all at or below ppbv level (parts per billion volume = 1: 10E9). Access is given to 5 CO2-laser-, 2 CO-laser-, 1 Quantum cascade laser-, and 1 Optical Parametric Oscillator-based detection systems, next to 2 Proton-transfer-reaction Mass Spectrometer setups.
In Europe such a measuring facility is unique and definitely not commonly used by Life Scientists due to the required expertise and high operational costs. We offer access to researchers engaged in experiments where a quantitative change of small gas emissions forms an important asset to determine the character and the timing of the observed processes. Access to these trace gas detectors will be given for 1960 experiment days for 49 research groups over 4 years
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences soil sciences
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry aldehydes
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry ketones
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry aliphatic compounds
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology
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FP6-2004-INFRASTRUCTURES-5
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NIJMEGEN
Netherlands
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