Tailor-made infrastructure for real-time investigation of the freezing behavior of water droplets using Synchrotron CT

•  Cryochamber for precise tempering of the coated sample

•  Sample holder for different sample angles

•  Temperature control by PID for cryochamber, seawater reservoir and drop valve

•  Freely programmable drop volumes

•  Peltier elements + liquid cooler for cooling the cryochamber.

•  Temperature range of the cryochamber: 0 to -25°C

•  Temperature accuracy: ± 0.1°C

•  Coated sample size: 16 x 16 mm

•  Sample holder with different angles: 0° to 60

•  Freely programmable drop volumes from 0.5 µl (approx. Ø 1 mm) to 33.5 µl (approx. Ø 4 mm)

•  Setting up and commissioning the hardware and software

•  Testing of different drop sizes and drop speeds, as well as their influence on the freezing behavior

•  Controller tuning and acceptance tests in the laboratory

•  Setting up the infrastructure at the beamline

•  Carrying out the customer-specific experiments