Functional Requirements for Liquid Scintillation Analyzer • Laboratory instrument, designed to be operated in a controlled environment used for drinking water and food analysis. • Spectral analysis capabilities to determine optimal counting regions and figure of merit • Ability to use 20 mL glass liquid scintillation vials • Equipped with autosampler to move racks of vials through the instrument • Minimum of 30 protocols • Instrument Performance Assessment tool to monitor instrument performance • Integrated control charts to monitor instrument performance • Integrated control charts to monitor instrument performance • Ability to distinguish between alpha and beta counts utilizing pulse shape analysis • Ability to provide spill corrected results • Ability to remove interference from luminesce • Ability to acquire and apply quench correction to individual protocols • Automatic single label direct disintegrations per minute (DPM) with Ba-133 external standard • Electrostatic controller • Dynamic color Correction • Spectral Index of Sample • Temperature control kit, 115V • Linear 4000 channel microchannel analyzer (MCA) • Time resolved liquid scintillation counting-background reduction circuitry and software Nonfunctional Requirements • The maximum area that can be occupied when the instrument and cart are assembled is 76 cm x 107 cm 122 cm (length x width x height) Ability to site on a cart with wheels Comes with utility cart with wheels 110V – 120 V AC power cable Built in computer with Windows 10 64-bit OS, with minimum 4 GB RAM and minimum 250 GB hard drive 3 high speed USB ports and dual gigabit ethernet support On-site installation and familiazization
