What are the types of incubator?

Incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and other conditions such as the CO (CO2) and oxygen content of the atmosphere inside. Incubators are essential for a lot of experimental work in cell biology, microbiology and molecular biology.

Two types of incubators are commonly used:

1. BOD incubators.
2. Bacteriological incubators.

The main difference between these two types of incubators is temperature.

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), sometimes referred to as biological oxygen demand, is a quantitative expression of microbes ability to deplete the oxygen content of a wastewater. This depletion takes place due to the microbes consuming organic matter in the water via aerobic respiration. This type of respiration uses oxygen as an electron acceptor, and the organic material being consumed provides the energy source. This organic matter also undergoes oxidation without the aid of microbes, which can be measured using the chemical oxygen demand (COD) procedure.

BOD incubators are normally rated in the range of 20°C to 60°C.

BOD incubator is the most versatile and reliable low temperature incubator which is designed to maintain at 20°C, necessary for Biological Oxygen Demand/Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) determination. BOD incubators provide controlled temperature conditions for accelerated tests and exposures. The biological oxygen demand (BOD) is an empirical test in which standardized laboratory procedures are used to determine the relative oxygen requirements of microbes in wastewaters, ef?uents, and polluted waters and in simple words, It is a chemical process that determines how fast biological organisms use up oxygen in a body of water or it measures the oxygen required for the biochemical degradation of organic material (carbonaceous demand) and the oxygen used to oxidize inorganic materials, such as sulfides and ferrous iron The seeding and dilution procedures provide an estimate of the BOD at pH 6.5 to 7.5.

In Bacteriological incubators, the set temperatures are normally in the range of 10°C above ambient to 60°C.

BOD Incubator (Bio-Oxygen Demand) are used to maintain temperature for test tissue culture growth, storage of bacterial cultures and incubation where high degree of constant temperature accuracy is required. Thermolab BOD Incubators provide with accurate conditions and uniformity throughout the chamber.

Standard Features

• Double walled modular structure with 3" thick PUF insulation
• Inside Stainless Steel and Outside Mild Steel Powder Coated OR Stainless Steel
• Interior illumination
• Inside full length observation glass door with secure gasket
• Heavy-duty door hinges and latches to maintain a secure and uniform seal
• Racks & trays – Stainless Steel with adjustable height
• 65 mm Port Hole with rubber seal to insert sensors for validation purpose
• U shaped S.S. Nichrome wire air heaters
• Compressor with CFC Free R 134 A / R 404 (Eco Friendly) refrigerant having state of art by-pass system for continuous run of compressor
• Plc control system with touch screen display coloured screen – 5.7" HMI with Ethernet
• Safety controller sensor to cut off the supply in case of overshoot and undershoot of temperature giving audio visual alarm
• Web based online monitoring
• Complete with IQ, OQ, PQ, Documents, Operations and Maintenance manuals
• Works on 23V AC single phase 50Hz

Thermolab Scientific Equipments Incubators provide with accurate conditions and uniformity throughout the chamber.

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