The methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) sampling lines are used to study climate change trends by analyzing the abundance of these gases in samples of ice taken from regions of Antarctica and Greenland.  User customizable automation sequences provide recipes for system calibration, sample gas extraction, and gas processing.

 

Features:

• National Instruments Compact RIO controller 

• communications with vacuum pump controllers, gas chromatograph

• analog/digital IO for vacuum/pressure sensors, pneumatic valve operation

• servo control for sample positioning

• LabVIEW Real-Time application provides deterministic and reliable control

• LabVIEW Windows application provides a user interface

• remote monitoring of the system using a web browser