Hardware / Innovation

Still yet, Agroisolab is highly innovative, we are dedicated to develop new analytical tools.

This is not only limited to applicative applications (Vanillin) or patented compounds for forensic marking of goods, but extends to the development of new hardware components

So, in the field of high-temperature pyrolysis, Agroisolab was able to develop a patented combustion tube that contains no oxygen element, consists only of covalent compounds, is absolutely helium sealed and can be used at temperatures of up to 1650 °C.

This patented tube is used routinely for high-temperature pyrolysis at 1550 °C so that the stable isotope ratios of oxygen and hydrogen can be measured with a high degree of reproducibility.

That reproducibility is optimized by the fact, that Agroisolab has installed Master-Slave-measurements, where always one stable isotopic mass spectrometers is performing the measurement of one stable isotope, so the gaseous of the high temperature pyrolysis are provided to an individual stable isotopic mass spectrometer.

Therefore, the risk of typical instability because of peak jumps is eliminated in our laboratory.

Today, Agroisolab is even in the position to measure high complex organic compounds like meat samples where normally the oxygen ratios are masked by the high nitrogen content.

Further developed hardware components are the freeze-drying system: Cryosis for separation of water without fractionation effects or the Zero-Blank autosampler with heating.

Those innovative Hardware components for stable isotope measurements are manufactured from our hardware company: AIL-Technologies.