A BOD (Bio-Oxygen Demand) incubator is a type of laboratory incubator that is used in order to maintain temperature for cell culture growth, bacterial culture storage and incubation where a high degree of constant temperature accuracy is required. Kalstein’s BOD incubators provide precise conditions and uniformity throughout the chamber. They are essential to a large number of experimental works focused on cell biology, microbiology, and molecular biology.
Specifically, this equipment is used to control the oxygen consumed by microorganisms while acting on the deterioration of matter. The BOD Incubator is developed for laboratories that need to control incubation temperature, control water quality in relation to oxygen, contamination levels and improve biology studies in insects, among others.
How is a BOD incubator different from a normal incubator?
Incubation is the period of time during which humidity, temperature, among other environmental factors, are used to provide the required level of growth and development of the microbial culture. So an incubator is a device that allows the incubation process to occur. Here, all the optimal conditions for the growth of microbial crops are maintained. The incubator is based on the principle of thermoelectricity, where a thermal gradient is created by maintaining a constant temperature by the thermostat that owns the device.
In standard incubators the default temperature of 37 °C is set while the incubator circuit is supplied with energy. This temperature is maintained by the compatibility operation of the main components; the temperature controller, the temperature sensor and the temperature contactor. There are two types of incubators in the pharmaceutical industry, the bacteriological incubator and the BOD incubator.
So the difference between an incubator and a BOD incubator is basically temperature. As indicated above, a standard incubator operates mainly at 37 °C and only has the heating option. On the other hand, a BOD incubator has heating and cooling options and is operated mainly at lower temperatures, such as 10 °C. Another difference between an incubator and a BOD incubator is revealed through its operating principles. For example, electricity is supplied through miniature circuit breakers before setting the temperature through an advanced PID temperature regulator, mainly at 20°C.
Why are BOD incubators important?
BOD incubators are popularly used in different industries to create an isolated chamber with a temperature of 20 ° C. Some industries need to test the products at a certain temperature at which the biochemical oxygen demand can be met. Germination studies, bacterial culture and insect study use this machine for accurate observations.
What is the BOD methodology?
These incubators are called biochemical oxygen demand or biological oxygen demand. In this condition, microorganisms consume oxygen and thus have severe oxygen depletion. In this process, oxygen is used as an electron acceptor. The organic matter absorbed by microorganisms provides them with the energy to survive and multiply. Simultaneously, the oxidation process develops without any microorganism support. All this is measured by the COD procedure, i.e. the chemical oxygen demand.
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