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Equipment List and Charging Schemes
Rate of Charging Lab Equipment
(effective from 1 Oct 2019)| Name of Equipmenta | HKUST internal users: Instruction use and academic research |
1) HKUST internal users: Non-RGC/UGC government projects 2) Sister institute users: RGC/UGC funded projects |
External industrial users, service contractsb | Online Book/Request |
| Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence | $200/polymer sample, $275/sample (5 samples or less) or $1375/day (operated by staff) |
$220/polymer sample, $305/sample (5 samples or less) or $1595/day (operated by staff) |
$595/polymer sample, $825/sample (5 samples or less) or $4290/day |
XRF |
| Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrophotometer [Varian] | $135/hour | $220/hour | $550/hour | ICP-OES [Varian] |
| Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrophotometer [Perkin Elmer/Avio 200] | $160/hour | $260/hour | $660/hour | ICP-OES-Avio |
| Gas Chromatograph with Mass Selective Detector System in Electron Ionization (EI) mode | $165/day | $495/day | $2200/day | GC-MS-EI |
| Gas Chromatograph with Mass Selective Detector (+chemical ionization) System (Agilent 7890B GC/5977B MSD) | $195/day | $595/day | $2640/day | GC-MS-CI |
| Gas Chromatograph with Electron Capture Detector + Headspace Sampler | $110/day | $470/day | $1940/day | GC-ECD |
| Total Organic Carbon Analyzer | $165/half day (4 hrs) | $340/half day (4 hrs) | $1010/half day (4 hrs) | TOC |
| HPLC System with PDA & FLR Detector | $140/half day (4 hrs) | $295/half day (4 hrs) | $965/half day (4 hrs) | HPLC (under maintenance) |
| RAMAN Microscope | $50 per use or per day | $200/half day (4 hrs) | $480/half day (4 hrs) | RAMAN |
| UV/VIS/NIR Spectrometer | $55 per use or per day | $255/half day (4 hrs) | $530/half day (4 hrs) | UVVIS NIR |
| Scanning Electron Microscope with EDXS System | $50 per use or per day | $200/half day (4 hrs) | $2200/day | SEM |
| Liquid Chromatograph(LC) - Mass Spectrometer (MS) with Triple Quadrupole System(QTRAP System) | $330/day | $1100/day | $3300/day | LCMS |
| LCMS data processing PC | - | - | - | LCMS-PC |
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a All instruments (except for XRF) are operated by users after training. b In this category, instruments are operated by ENVF staff. |
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Charging Scheme for Biological Facilities
| Name of Equipment / Facility | HKUST Users | Online Book/Request |
| Autoclave for sterilization | $50/4-hour, cap at $100/day | Autoclave |
| Biological Safety Cabinet (Class II) for bacterial/fungi culture | $50 per use or per day | BSC1 |
| Biological Safety Cabinet (Class II) for cell line culture | $50 per use or per day | BSC2 |
| Microbiological Incubator (28 oC for fungi) | $50 per use in 24 hours | Incu28 |
| Microbiological Incubator (37 oC for bacterial culture) | $50 per use in 24 hours | Incu37 |
| Orbital Shaking Incubator (for bacterial culture) | $50 per use in 24 hours | IncuShak |
| CO2 Incubator (for human/animal cell line culture) | $50 per use in 24 hours | IncuCO2 |
| Beckman GS-15R Centrifuge (for cell culture only) | $50/4-hour, cap at $100/day | Centrifuge |
| Freezer (3 larger units and 1 small unit for -20 oC storage ) | large unit: $100/unit/month or $800/unit/year small unit: $50/unit/month or $400/unit/year |
Freezer |
| Cold room (16 60x60x60cm3 units for 4 oC storage) | $100/unit/month or $800/unit/year | Coldroom |
Other Lab Equipment and Service
| Category | Name of Equipment |
Charges for UST Users |
Online Request Form |
| Other Equipment | Electronic Balance | Free1 | General Request Form |
| Furnace & Oven | Free1 | ||
| Ultrapure Water System | Free1 | ||
| Others | Free1 | ||
| General Service |
* Please note that charge will subject to change without prior notice. The charge does not include consumables.
1 Kindly note that only equipment cost is free.
Computer Database and Computational Cluster
(effective from 1 Oct 2019)
- HK$500/month/user for database
- HK$100/hour/user for computational equipment and cap at HK$3,000/month
- HK$250/hour for staff cost and cap at HK$4,000/month
HKUST Air Quality Research Supersite
(effective from 1 Oct 2019)
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