The purchase of the LGR carbon dioxide isotope analyzer from the Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology arrived, and the engineers of the Riga have completed the installation and commissioning of the instrument. The instrument is now in good operating condition.
The CO2 isotope analyzer of this arrival is LCA's CCIA-36d, which can measure 13C and 18O at the same time. It is a veritable CO2 isotope analyzer. The instrument has excellent performance and can achieve an accuracy of 13C better than 0.1‰ in many measurement times. Because of the better performance of the laser, it will not be affected by other gases in the environment, such as methane. Moreover, since the absorption peaks of various CO2 isotope molecules are measured in the same scan, the fluctuation of the concentration of the measured ambient gas does not affect the accuracy of the isotope.