WHAT. Specialist Equipment & Services – Expertise Wales - Expertise Wales. WHY. Why use the RIC Facility? High-technology research equipment is often expensive to maintain, and complicated to use.
If the instrument is not used frequently, an investigator may take weeks of valuable research time to become reacquainted with the equipment and may waste reagents and precious samples in the process of relearning equipment use. The RIC Facility maintains equipment, provides access for investigator use and operates any complicated equipment for the investigator. Fees for instruments are instituted such that if an investigator were to use the instrument continually throughout the year, the cost to the user for that year would be about 3-4% of the purchasing cost for that piece of equipment. Thus the investigator would have to use the instrument continually for about 25 to 30 years before reaching the amount of money it would have cost to purchase the instrument outright at the beginning of the 30 years.
HOW. Researchfacil.pdf (application/pdf Object) Swansea University - Specialist equipment. Swansea University owns specialist equipment that businesses may not be able to access, use or afford through different routes.
Below you will find a list of some of the equipment that you may like to access. Please contact researchandinnovation@swansea.ac.uk with any queries or requests. Lists of equipment The Centre for Complex Fluids Processing has state-of-the-art laboratories housing cutting-edge facilities for use in both research and commercial projects for industry.