Advanced User Interface
The
ETHOS EZ is operated via a compact terminal with bright, full-color, touchscreen
display. The terminal runs the Milestone’s unique EasyCONTROL software,
to provide simple, userfriendly control of the microwave sample preparation
process.
EasyCONTROL software
Milestone’s new EasyCONTROL software is the most advanced
and powerful operating system in the field of microwave sample preparation.
Automatic, real-time monitoring and feedback-based control of multiple
parameters offer unsurpassed process control.Simply recall a factory stored
program or create a new one. Press ‘Start’, and the system will automatically
follow the drawn temperature or pressure profile, utilizing a sophisticated
PID algorithm.
The most important advantages are:
- On-line control of all parameters.
- Direct temperature control 20 times per second.
- Temperature driven microwave power output.
- Reaction is controlled at any temperature, not only once a set temperature
is reached.
- Better control of exothermic reactions.
- Same digestion quality for different sample sizes.
- One method only needed for any number of samples.
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Better control of exothermal reactions
Digestion of 1,2 grams of rice with 10 ml HNO3.
Notice that at 120°C, when the sample decomposition takes place,
the power is automatically reduced to zero to prevent temperature
overshooting. This is a unique advantage of the Milestone EasyCONTROL
software
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Same digestion quality for one or multiple samples
0,25 grams of feed with 10 ml HNO3. The average
microwave power during the temperature ramping step is 120
watts, when 1 vessel is used.
0,25 grams of feed with 10 ml HNO3. The average
microwave power during the temperature ramping step is 400
watts, when 6 vessels are used. The temperature profile
remains unchanged.
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Easy data transfer by EasyDOC Windows-based software
The ETHOS EZ terminal offers the ability to save methods and runs on
a Windows-formatted flash card. The flashcard can be directly read by
any laptop with a PCMCIA port or, via an adapter, through a USB port.
All methods and runs are saved, and can be transferred to/from the hard
drive of the computer. Therefore there is virtually unlimited memory
for storing all your sample preparation data. Furthermore, with Milestone’s
Windows™-based EasyDOC software, it is possible to convert the data
coming from the ETHOS 1 terminal into a standard format readable by
any database or spreadsheet software (Excel™, etc.).
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