OIL DILUTION SYSTEM
Dilutes oil samples to specified oil dilution factors.
System Overview.
In early 2015 Labman installed and commissioned an Oil Dilution System for a large oil and gas company in the USA.
The system dilutes oil samples to specified dilution factors so that they can be loaded into sample analysers in the laboratory. The system can handle 30ml, 4ml and 2ml glass vials and uses a Tecan ADP for the pipette handling. Other modules include a heated vial rack, vortexer station, capping/de-capping stations and solvent dispense station with weight feedback.
The system has 2 modes of operation:
• Batch mode
Dilution of oil samples with a pre-determined list of dilution factors. Samples are removed from the system manually and loaded into offline analysers.
• Interactive mode
Dilution of oil samples on an ad-hoc basis that is driven by an analyser unit. The analyser requests that the robot makes a particular dilution for a given sample.
This is the second system of this type after one was installed for the same company in the Netherlands in 2010.
Key Features.
High Throughput
Throughput of 8 samples an hour
Variable Capacity
96 x 30ml vials | 96 x 4ml vials | 192 x 2ml vials | 288 x 1ml ambient pipette tips
Solvents
Solvent dispensing
Heated Zone
Heated zone for each vial type and 96 pipette tips, temperature range from ambient to 90°C
Pipetting
Sample pipetting
Weighing Cell
4dp weighing cell
