In addition to the common resources available at the School of Agricultural Engineering of the Campus of Palencia, the Doctoral Program in Agri-Food and Biosystems Science and Engineering has its own resources that are specifically placed at the service of its training and research activities.
These own training resources are:
- Animal production laboratory with all the equipment corresponding to this type of facilities, particularly equipment for chemical analysis of feed (Weende and Van Soest analysis) and in vitro digestibility of feed for ruminants. Likewise, the Animal Production Area has been collaborating for years with farms and livestock companies where field tests are carried out under controlled conditions.
- Soil science and agricultural chemistry laboratories, consisting of a sample preparation and preliminary operations laboratory, a routine analysis laboratory and a research laboratory.
- Instrumental techniques laboratory (gas chromatography, HPLC, atomic absorption and graphite chamber, UV absorption spectrophotometer, mercury analyzer, respirometry and microwave equipment for sample digestion).
- Laboratory for determining the physical properties of soils (with pF equipment for determining water in the soil, equipment for determining hydraulic permeability, ultrasonic disintegration probe, aggregate separator, vacuum equipment for determining actual density, among others).
- Laboratory for the determination of chemical properties of soils and plant samples (with LECO autoanalyzer for C and N analysis in solid samples, TOC-SKALAR autoanalyzer for Cy N analysis in liquid samples).
- Laboratory for determination of biochemical properties of soils (with the necessary equipment for biomass analysis, microbial activity and enzymatic activities).
- Greenhouses. Fully automated glass greenhouse and several plastic greenhouses (one of which is used exclusively for research).
- Composting workshops. For pilot composting experiments, consisting of different types of biodigesters.
- Laboratories, equipment and various facilities of the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León that will be directly linked to the doctoral program:
- Laboratory for analysis of wastewater, slurry, poultry manure and other organic wastes.
Analysis equipment for COD, BOD5, NKT, ammonia nitrogen, nitrates, nitrites, total and suspended solids, volatile solids, non-food fiber and microbiological analysis. - Facilities for the operation of anaerobic, aerobic and raceway reactors for microalgae cultivation.
- Laboratory for drying, sieving and milling of soil and plant samples.
- Chemical analysis laboratories, equipped with instruments for this type of facilities.
- Seed laboratory, with automatic scales, drying ovens, cold storage, grain counting equipment, moisture and specific weight meters.
- Tools for soil sampling, penetrometer, CO2 flow meter and dielectric constant probe for soil moisture measurements.
- Zamadueñas farm in Valladolid, equipped with tractors, a truck, two direct seeding machines, conventional seeding machines, equipment for seedbed preparation, fertilizer spreaders and sprayers, seed preparation and treatment equipment, various threshing and harvesting machinery and agricultural weather station.
- Pilot plants for baking, milling and production of fermented and baked products.
- Equipment for measuring the physical and chemical properties of foods: Rheometer, texturometer, rheofermentometer, alveograph, consistograph, RVA, texturometer, colorimeter, spectrophotometers, chromatographs, viscometers, pH-meters, conductivity meters, among others.
- Pilot plant for beer brewing.
- General pilot plant for food technology, consisting of autoclaves, vacuum packaging machines, container sealers, among other equipment.
- Tasting room with 40 booths and rooms for sample preparation.
- Laboratory of molecular biology and microbiology of the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León, equipped with all the necessary
- instruments for classical microbiology, molecular and cellular biology.
- Laboratory for analysis of wastewater, slurry, poultry manure and other organic wastes.
- Laboratory of environmental technologies:
- AxSYM equipment for immunofluorescence analysis in animal endocrinology.
- Atomic absorption equipment.
- Graphite chamber and hydride generator.
- Mass spectroscopy.
- X-ray spectrometry (EDAX).
- Water and soil analysis equipment.
- GIS and remote sensing laboratory:
- Topographic data station.
- GIS and remote sensing software
- Soil chlorophyll measurement equipment.
- Process control laboratory:
- Transducer devices (temperature, humidity, pressure, speed, energy consumption and others).
- Actuating devices (valves, servo drives, motors, speed controllers, heaters, fans and others).
- Laboratory instrumentation (signal conditioners, signal multiplexers, signal generators, multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, communications transceivers, communications modems, data acquisition systems and others).
- Programmable logic controllers, low, medium and high range, and the necessary set of input, output and communications cards.
- Programmable terminals for programmable logic controllers, to build simple, normal and complex user interfaces.
- Personal computers, for the design of computer control systems.
- Control software packages, necessary to program programmable logic controllers, personal computers and programmable terminals, as well as the programming languages required to develop SCADA applications.
- UV-ViS spectrophotometry equipment.
- Chromatography equipment.
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