Objective
Principal characteristics of the facility and of the support offered to users:
Access, training and support will be granted to researchers from Life Science to carry out trace gas exchange experiments with state-of-the-art laser-based photoacoustic trace gas detectors which, due to their extremely high sensitivity, make measurements possible which cannot be done with standard instrumentation. We offer these facilities 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. The facility is suitable for detection of biologically interesting molecular gases like ethylene, ethane, methane, water vapor, acetaldehyde, ethanol, other small hydrocarbons and nitrogen and sulfur containing compounds below the ppb-level (1 ppb = 1 part per billion = 1:104). In the last few years the potential of the photoacoustic trace gas detectors has been demonstrated; they are proven to be indispensable in high quality research performed in agriculture and biology, in the field of plant physiology, microbiology, soil science, entomology and toxicology. The strength of the technique resides in the possibility to perform sensitive, on-line, non-invasive detection of trace gases under rapidly changing environmental conditions (e.g. temperature, light, humidity, O2-, N2-, and CO2-levels, etc.). In Europe such a measuring facility is unique and definitely not commonly used by Life Scientists; because of the required expertise and high operational costs its availability is restricted.
Quantity of access being offered and number of users who may benefit: For the next 3 years it is estimated that 14-16 research groups per year will use the facility, i.e. in total 45 visits of research groups over 3 years, employing 1350-1575 man-days. This number should be considered as a minimum because the facility will be improved and parallel operation is optional.
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 hydrocarbons
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry alcohols
- natural sciences biological sciences zoology entomology
- natural sciences chemical sciences organic chemistry aliphatic compounds
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Coordinator
6500 GL NIJMEGEN
Netherlands
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