Acquisition and preventive maintenance of small research equipment

• Grant number: 23/14101-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• End date: January 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Wagner Lourenço
• Grantee: Roberto Wagner Lourenço
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Sorocaba. Sorocaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This Annual Plan for the Application of the Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure of the Institute of Science and Technology-Unesp/Campus Sorocaba (ICTS), Exercise 2023/Base Year 2022, aims at preventive maintenance of UPS and acquisition of vacuum pump installed in mass spectrometer coupled to the gas chromatograph (CG/MS Agilent 7890A), acquired through financing from Fapesp Proc. 10/01287-3, which is located in a multi-user laboratory at ICTS. Furthermore, it is intended to acquire 04 UPSs to stabilize the voltage of the electrical network in research laboratories, which has shown high instability and put equipment at risk, as well as compromising the full functioning of equipment with auto-samplers, affecting analytical results and interrupting routines. of analyses, which need to be restarted, causing financial losses and time losses for students and researchers. (AU)