I had an experience recently that involved a frantic call from a frantic customer. “There is something wrong with the regulator on my CO2 tank,” he moaned. “It stopped working and the incubator ran ou ...
Most gas cylinders are high pressure vessels. Pressures range from 100 psi (or lower) to 6000 psi and up from there. The gas in the tank requires a pressure regulator to reduce the pressure to a usabl ...
There are some essential, primary safety items that are required for handling Cryogenic Liquids. Let’s use Liquid Nitrogen as an example. It is cold, very cold; it is a bone chilling, skin freezing 32 ...
Are your gases being delivered in the appropriate mode? In other words, by what means is your lab gas being delivered to your business? Are you using high-pressure cylinders of Nitrogen or Argon to fe ...
If you employ a Gas Generator to feed gas to your lab applications, hoods, Mass Specs, etc. Have you considered what would happen if the generator went down? A very good customer called me recently to ...
Recently I received a call from a very upset customer of a competing gas company. The caller advised me that his gas prices were going up and he thought he was being “hosed” by his current supplier. H ...
To those of you who are ordering gases for your labs or for the facility, how do you know what grade of gas is appropriate for the application? Are you allowing the people in the labs to “pick” the gr ...
I guess we have all heard about the worldwide shortage of Helium in recent months. It is not a rumor, it is very true. Approximately 20% of the worldwide requirements for Helium is to super cool magne ...
What is the value of the contents of an incubator? Can you put a price tag on the cell cultures or the research it took to get them to the point they are now? Of course not, so do not let the cells fa ...
What is an incubator? It’s that big refrigerator looking thing you always see in a lab right. It always has a Carbon Dioxide cylinder strapped next to it. Did you ever wonder what is in an incubator o ...