Postharvest Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory equipment includes:
- HPLC system (Merk Hitachi LaChrom) equipped with Pump L7100, Column oven L7350, Mixer-degasser L-7614, Manual Injector Rheodyne, RI Detector (Merk, LaChrom, L-7490) and Multiwavelengh Detector (Jasco MD-2010 Plus), interface (Jasco LC-Net II / ADC) and scientific software (EZChrom Elite Client/Server version 3.1.6 build 3.1.6.2433)
- Fraction Collector FRAC-100 (Pharmacia)
- Liquid Scintillation Analyzer (1600 TR, TRI-CARB, PACKARD)
- UV/VIS Spectrophotometer (SHIMADZU, UV–1650PC)
- Chromameter equipped with a glass light projection tube (Minolta CR-300 and CR-A33e)
- Refrigerated High-Speed Centrifuges (Sorvall Instruments, RC5C) with a variety of angular and horizontal rotors
- Desktop centrifuges of different sizes, velocities and capacities
- Water distillatory system (Corning, Mega-Pure® System, MP-6A)
- Ice flaker (eurfrigor ICE MAKERS, ES 50)
- Omni Mixer (OCI Instruments)
- Hard fruit juice extractors (Magimix, Le Duo)
- Liquid nitrogen storage containers (Taylor-Wharton, 34XT and 10LD)
- pH Meters (Corning 140)
- Conductometers (Metrohm 644 and El-Hamma Instruments TH-2400)
- Hand-held refractometers (Atago, Model ATC-1E, Japan, Brix 0-32%)
- Analytical (Mettler AE 50 and OHAUS AS120) and semi-analytical (BOECO, BPB Series and OHAUS Adventurer™) balances
- Freezers (down to -50ºC)
- Refrigerators
- Incubators
- Air-circulating ovens
- Cooling bath (HETO Lab Equipment AS, Type CB 11)
- Shaking water bath (Julabo, SW 20 and 20C)
- Bath sonicator (Bandlin SONOREX Super RK103H)
- Desiccators; Heating and stirring plates
- Vortex mixing units and other small basic equipment.
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