Soil Particle Distribution Robot
Fully automate your soil analysis.
Product Overview
The Soil Particle Distribution Robot offers a reliable, fast, and cost-effective solution for automating key steps in soil analysis according to ISO 11277. Designed to streamline the measurement of mineral particle proportions in soil, it provides flexible automation options tailored to your needs.
The process can be fully or partially automated using 3 independent robots, each handling a specific step:
- Sample Preparation Robot: Automates sample tracking, precise reagent dosing, and conductivity measurements.
- Sample Collection Robot: Efficiently manages sample retrieval, mixing, and optional weighing, with controlled evaporation features.
- Weighing Robot: Handles sample drying and precise weight measurements, with automated weighing and clay fraction calculations.
These robots can be acquired separately or combined for a fully automated workflow. With additional configuration possibilities, you can customize the setup to fit your lab's requirements. Discuss your specific needs with our sales team to find the perfect solution.
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Why select the Soil Particle Distribution Robot?
Automation
- XYZ Robotic System: Automates the precise dosing of multiple reagents (hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, calcium chloride, water, antifoam) into sample holders.
- Programmable Dosing Cycles: Allows customization of step size (0.2ml to 5ml) and time intervals (90 sec to 3600 sec), automating the reagent addition process.
- Batch Processing: The system processes up to 40 samples per batch with minimal human intervention, automating nearly all aspects of sample preparation and treatment.
Compliance
- Precise Dosing and Temperature Control: Ensures consistent sample treatment, helping labs meet compliance standards for accurate and reproducible results.
- Customizable Settings: Allows labs to set exact volumes for hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, calcium chloride, and antifoam for each sample, supporting adherence to specific procedural guidelines.
- Fume Hood Compatibility: Ensures safe operation in a controlled environment, complying with safety regulations for handling volatile or hazardous materials.
Efficiency
- Batch Size and Operation Time: Capable of processing multiple batches daily (up to 40 samples per batch) due to the automated 7-hour hydrogen peroxide dosing cycle, maximizing throughput.
- Walkaway Operation: Minimizes human involvement by automating long-duration dosing and heating cycles, freeing staff for other tasks.
- Integrated Dosing Units: Efficiently handles multiple reagents with specific dosing units, optimizing the process for accuracy and speed.
Support
- PC-Controlled System: Easy-to-use software interface outside the fume hood provides full control over the entire process.
- Pre-configured Settings for Each Sample: Reduces the potential for user error and ensures support for consistent operations.
- Robust Construction: The system is built to withstand harsh chemical environments, requiring minimal maintenance and offering long-term reliability. This enhances overall lab support by reducing downtime.
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Experience trouble-free mechanical operation with SEAL’s signature encoded motors on the MiniLab ML platform. These motors provide real-time feedback and precision control to the system, ensuring greater accuracy in movement and positioning.
Scale the system to fit your needs — choose the batch size, heating plate capacity, and optional weighing station setup. Tailor the configuration to suit both small and large lab environments.
Automate key preparation tasks, including semi-automated sample tracking, precise reagent dosing, and thorough sample mixing. The system streamlines these essential steps, minimizing manual intervention and enhancing process efficiency.
Combine or acquire robots individually for customizable automation solutions that match your lab’s specific workflow and analysis requirements.
Soil Particle Distribution Robot Steps
Step 1
Sample preparation
The Sample Preparation Robot automates and optimizes this crucial step, offering precise and efficient processes tailored to your needs:
- Automated Sample Tracking: Semi-automated tracking ensures easy monitoring and management of samples.
- Precise Mixing & Dosing: Accurately dose up to five reagents, such as hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, and calcium chloride, directly into sample holders.
- Programmable Dosing Cycles: Customize dosing volumes (0.2ml to 5ml) and time intervals (90 to 3600 seconds) for complete flexibility.
- Batch Processing: Prepare up to 40 samples simultaneously, reducing the need for manual handling.
This standalone solution provides everything needed to automate and enhance your sample preparation process.
Step 2
Sample collection
The Sample Collection Robot streamlines the critical process of sample retrieval and preparation, offering flexibility and precision for your laboratory needs:
- Automated Sample Retrieval: Efficiently collect and track samples with minimal manual handling.
- Mixing and Homogenization: Ensure consistency with automated stirring and sample preparation.
- Precision Pipetting: Accurately transfer samples for further analysis, minimizing variability.
- Optional Weighing Station: Seamlessly integrate SEAL's Weighing Robot for precise sample measurements.
- Controlled Water Evaporation: Maintain sample integrity with heated plates and specialized sample holders designed for efficient evaporation.
This independent solution enhances the accuracy and efficiency of sample collection, making it a valuable addition to your workflow.
Step 3
Drying & weighing
The Weighing Robot automates the final step of the soil particle distribution process, ensuring precision and efficiency:
- Drying Samples: Place trays with weighing cups into an oven at 105°C to thoroughly dry the samples.
- Accurate Weighing: Once dried, transfer the trays to the Weighing Robot or a balance for precise weight measurements.
- Net Sample Weight Calculation: Accurately calculate the net sample weight and determine the clay fraction with minimal manual effort.
- Fully Automated Option: Integrate SEAL's Weighing Robot for a fully automated weighing process, reducing human intervention and improving consistency.
This final step delivers accurate results while streamlining the drying and weighing process for optimal laboratory efficiency.
Step 4
Data exported to LIMS
The sample identification and additional sample information of each cup can be printed or exported to LIMS.
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Intuitive software for a tailored experience
The software is designed to manage precise timing and pipetting required for this analysis. Different fractions, with corresponding settling times, dosing, and flushing parameters, can be set up flexibly to meet your requirements. This setup allows analysts to easily prepare and execute runs using preset templates. Integration with your lab’s LIMS facilitates simple import and export of sampling data, procedures, and preferences. Additionally, new samples can be introduced at any time, enabling continuous analysis outside working hours and allowing the robot to operate around the clock.
This will reduce the lead time of analysis compared to manual handling during working hours.
Soil Methods
Explore a wide range of our most common methods for environmental, agricultural, industrial, and other markets. Don’t see what you’re looking for? Contact our team to review our full method options.
The Soil Particle Distribution Robot is compliant with ISO 11277 for the determination of particle size distribution in mineral soil material by sedimentation.
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