Specifications_Lyte_Microbio Chamber.docx

Specifications The Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit (Fayetteville, AR) requires a mobile, bench-top customizable-atmospheric chamber for microbiology. The atmosphere generating system must have the following specifications: Be compact to fit on a bench-top to meet the dimensions of 12 x 9 x 13 inches; be able to operate at temperature from 10oC to 32oC, and weigh no more than 33 pounds, and be 120V (110-120VAC, 60Hz, 516W). The custom atmospheric environments must be capable of creating true anaerobic environments with a strict zero oxygen level, as well as microaerophilic environments with 6% oxygen. The system must have a custom recipe generating program. The custom environments must be created in five minutes; have a digital touchscreen display for quantitative results and the ability to monitor quality checks and tests; gas constituents must remain stable to within 0.5% of the delivered concentration; the atmospheric generating system must have capability to simultaneously maintain up to three gas connections to create the custom atmospheric environment; the atmospheric generating system must have a digital transfer storage onboard with optional data integration or printing. The atmospheric generating system must be suited and compatible with a variety of jars including incubation of test tubes, flasks, microtiter plates, 10cm well, or 15cm plates; the jars must have a clamp-on lid system to create a secure seal; the jar lids should be recessed, snap-shut to connect to the gas supply. Specifically, chambers should be jars capable of holding simultaneously three stacks of twelve petri dishes (9-10cm); or, hold one stack of (13x9cm) microtiter plates or one stack of (14.5cm) 10 petri dishes.