Incubator (air jacketed) NovaIncu AT50-I

Features

• Direct heating of chamber with isolation.
• Constructed with an easy-to-clean stainless steel chamber featuring smooth, rounded corners for effective sterilization.
• Powder-coated durable steel external housing protects internal components.
• Dual-door safety design: an outer insulated door and an inner tempered glass door for visual inspection and heat retention.
• Intelligent water level monitoring with alarms for both high and low conditions to protect the heating system.
• Internal fan-driven air circulation guarantees a uniform temperature environment throughout the chamber.
• High-speed CPU-powered controller delivers precise and responsive thermal management.
• Laboratory-grade Pt resistance sensor provides high-fidelity temperature measurement.
• Comprehensive 99-hour programmable cycles with power, work, and idle stages for complete automation.
• Optional independent temperature safety controller and UV sterilization lamp enhance protection and hygiene.

Specifications

Introduction about incubator

Marine biologists and coral researchers employ incubators to study the effects of environmental change on aquatic organisms.

A major application is ocean acidification and warming experiments. Coral fragments, sea urchin larvae, or phytoplankton are placed in aquaria or beakers inside precise temperature-controlled incubators. The water chemistry (pH/pCO2) is manipulated to simulate future ocean conditions. The incubator maintains a constant temperature (e.g., raising it by 1-3°C to model warming) while the water chemistry system controls acidity. This allows researchers to isolate and study the combined effects of heat stress and acidification on calcification rates, metabolism, and survival. For deep-sea organisms brought to the surface, refrigerated incubators set to near-freezing temperatures simulate their native high-pressure, cold environment as closely as possible for short-term studies.

Incubators also serve to culture marine bacteria, microalgae, or the symbiotic zooxanthellae algae extracted from corals. By providing a stable thermal backdrop, incubators enable the controlled perturbation of other variables, yielding critical insights into how climate change threatens marine ecosystems.