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Carbon/Nitrogen Analyzer to Analyze Soil and Plant Material - This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in FAR Part 12. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; offers are being requested, and a separate written solicitation will no
Carbon/Nitrogen Analyzer Instrument must operate by high temperature combustion inside a vertical steel tube Instrument must be capable of analyzing up to 1 g of organic sample and 4 ml of aqueous sample Instrument must have an integrated 90 position top loading sampler for automated ash removal Sample feeding should be performed using 5 ml open and reusable stainless steel crucibles Instrument must contain a third furnace for catalytic post- combustion to ensure complete conversion of CH4 to CO2 in high organic content samples Instrument flow path must be designed to allow measurement of 100% of combusted nitrogen via a thermal conductivity detector ( TCD) without gas splitting or chromatographic separation Gas requirements: high purity **** pure helium or argon carrier gas and oxygen **** pure for combustion. No other gases should be required. Instrument must utilize a helium or argon carrier gas flow via an electronic mass flow controller ( MFC) between furnace and detector to allow for calibratio
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