Plymouth Marine Laboratories's bio gas tracer group is interested in all sorts of gases that are naturally produced by marine organisms
Justice Laboratory Software reports that Plymouth Marine Laboratories has chosen Chrom Perfect LSi for its portable marine analysis.
Known as the Bio Gas Tracer group, it is interested in all sorts of gases that are naturally produced by marine organisms.
These gases play a major role in climate changes, some aid cloud formation others have serious effects on our climate; carbon dioxide is a prime example.
These gases occur in sea water at very low levels so techniques have to be found to measure them.
PML has been instrumental in the development of innovative and world-leading techniques for marking and tracking water masses using SF6.
Ecosystem manipulation experiments have previously been limited in the ocean by advection and dispersion. The deployment of advanced sensitive tracer technology has allowed PML to track surface water masses for periods exceeding two weeks and distances greater than 1400km, from the addition of small quantities of a gaseous tracer, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). For analysis of such low level concentrations a good chromatography data collection system is needed.
"We used numerous chromatography software products in the past, but found these systems were difficult to use and required proprietary computing hardware.
"Also when we then wanted to update the package, instead of making it simpler the later version became more difficult to use.
"We investigated many packages until we purchased Chrom Perfect.
"It was simple to use and did more than the other packages, so it was natural to purchase the new Chrom Perfect system.
"I would not hesitate to recommend Chrom Perfect for use in demanding mobile environments.
"Not only is the software very powerful yet easy to use but the new Tigre II interfaces are very robust and can be run from a laptop" says Malcolm Liddicoat of PML.
