Extreme heat and severe storms are impacting the grid — and your analytical lab.
This summer’s unprecedented extreme and enduring heat — and the strong storms it has spawned — can lead to power outages, surges, and fluctuations in your lab’s power supply.
These can affect your lab’s highly-controlled ambient environment and damage sensitive equipment like mass spectrometers, not to mention impacting the stability and reliability of samples being analyzed.
Here are some ways strong analytical labs ensure conditions are always suitable for continuous, accurate testing. Proactive equipment monitoring and maintenance and a right-sized UPS system are essential for avoiding downtime.
It’s been an incredibly hot summer. Don’t let the heat impact your lab.
Analytical Labs: A UPS unit can minimize rising heat- and storm-related power fluctuations that disrupt laboratory workflows and impact results.
Mass Spec Equipment: Maintaining the proper instrument temperature in the lab eliminates potential thermal drift that can cause baseline shifts in signal intensity, performance, and data quality.
Avoid Sample Degradation
Analytical Labs: Sample degradation in a warmer environment can be prevented by using the appropriate containers and transportation methods from collection points to the lab.
Mass Spec Equipment: Maintaining ambient temperatures and minimizing power fluctuations via a UPS unit can minimize sample degradation and changes in chemical composition impacting test accuracy and reliability.
Preserve Data Quality
Analytical Labs: Keeping the lab cool and cooling equipment functioning with auxiliary power generation can eliminate sample degradation and the formation of artifacts or unwanted by-products that can interfere with the analysis and interpretation of the test data.
Mass Spec Equipment: Closely monitoring changes in calibration and minimizing heat-related background noise decreases issues related to distinguishing analyte peaks and the likelihood of false positive/false negative results.
Extreme weather events are knocking out power across the US
Proactive Maintenance Is Essential
Analytical Labs: Lab equipment such as refrigerators, freezers, air conditioning systems, and gas generators need proactive maintenance to prevent heat-related malfunctions.
Mass Spec Equipment: Maintenance is essential to identify and remedy additional stresses on mass specs that can lead to reduced instrument lifespan.
Workflow Continuity Relies on Uninterrupted Power
Analytical Labs: A UPS unit can minimize heat- or storm-related power outage downtime that disrupts laboratory workflows and delays experiments, sample analyses, and research projects. All avoidable disruptions that cost you money.
Mass Spec Equipment: A UPS unit can help maintain continuous operation of mass specs and critical instruments, allowing researchers to carry out their work without interruptions.