Anna, you signed up for a summer internship project that will take a lot of your time and effort. This will not be easy. Please set your expectations that there will be a lot of work to do. Please use this page as your science notebook for your summer internship – all your answers, observations, questions, and results – all should be added here on this page (you can add text and post pictures here; using this page will also teach you how to use the WordPress platform).
Please start with internet research regarding the instrument you received by answering the following questions (copy/paste will not work, you will need to perform the internet research using google.com and then write your own answers to the following questions):
Model number, part number and names of the instruments:
What are they used for?
Who needs liquid nitrogen? Where is it used?
What parts liquid nitrogen is made of?
How does it work? Describe in great detail.
Develop the experimental setup plan using the instruments you have. Try to find instrument manuals online.
Read the manual for each instrument. Describe what was clear in the manual and what was confusing.
After you have completed internet research, try to turn on the instrument and see what happens. Make a picture and post it here. You may be missing power cord and/or adapter cables (find out what cords/cables/adapters are missing, find missing part on Amazon or Ebay, and post Amazon/Ebay link here, so I can get you the missing part). Some instruments been in storage and are very dusty – clean them with Windex spray and paper towels (your parents got a cleaning supplies cabinet somewhere in your house, find it).
Try to operate the instrument using the manual … is it working? Do you need certain supplies to make it work? Find the catalog numbers (from the manual) of the required supplies, where from they are available and post here links of what we need to order. Post here results of your testing, and how do you plan to move forward.
This is your notebook now …
Anna:
I watched a video on YouTube by the King of Random where they explained how cryo generators work, and that they had multiple parts that consisted of an air pressurizer, a filter, a dryer, a nitrogen tank, a helium compressor, a cryo head, a dewar, tubes, and another tank to store the pressurized air before it goes through the filter. Tomorrow I plan to go through all of my equipment and put post it notes on everything and name them. I will also look into how the big nitrogen compressor works.
Dima: Keep working on research, good job so far. Post here pictures, schematics, your research on instruments and connections.
Anna:
7/26/2020: From Dima: Internship deadline is August 17, 2020. You have 3 weeks left, please note that it will not be possible to add text/data after this date due to the nature of summer internship and associated time limits.
8/15/2020: Internship was not completed by 8/15/2020.