The
OxyStreamer provides two identical streams of any mix of oxygen and
carbon dioxide gas without
the use of premixed gas cylinders. The two output streams can be used to
simultaneously condition the atmosphere in a microscope stage mount cell
culture incubators/chambers and the dissolved O2 and CO2 levels in media
or perfusate.
By independently
monitoring and controlling O2 and CO2 concentrations of the streams, the
OxyStreamer monitors and proportionally blends the O2, CO2 and N2 gases
into any O2 and CO2 concentration in real time.
The OxyStreamer is easy
to use. After calibrating the O2 and CO2 sensors, the desired
concentrations are simply entered into their respective controllers using
the digital display.
The closed-loop dynamic
gas control system will then automatically monitor and adjust the output
stream of gas to the preprogrammed gas ratios in the controllers. This
technique maintains the output mixed gas concentration to within 0.2% of
the selected setpoint levels.
The flow rate for each
stream is independently controlled for gas efficiency and to provide a
method for setting a reproducible rate at which the gas is delivered to
the cell culture chamber and/or diffused into the cell culture media or
perfusate.
