
Anaerobic chamber (in a nitrogen/CO2 atmosphere)
Cégep de Shawinigan (CNETE)
Place :
Shawinigan
Infrastructure type :
Equipment
/// Features:
- Capacity to incubate 200 petri dishes on eight individual plates
- Inside ambient air temperature between +5 °C and 70 °C, ± 0.25 °C
- Continuous AMG gas purge (Anaerobic mixture gas, 5% H2, 20% CO2, 75 % N2)
- Palladium catalyst for capturing residual oxygen
- Wearing gloves is not required for handling inside the chamber
- Lock with vacuum and nitrogen purge cycles to enter and take out material
/// Samples:
- Petri dishes containing facultative and obligate anaerobic strains
- Liquid cultures not requiring stirring
- Hypoxia tissue cultures
- Oxygen-sensitive material
/// Examples of applications:
- Anaerobic microbiological tests
- Anaerobic strain isolation
- Screening tests of microorganisms (wild-type or recombinant); screening tests