Dear Nick, We start have the same sort of problem here at MPL.
However, we have already a few solutions to put in practice. 1-The research complex at Harwell has a excellent floor on the Liquid Nitrogen Room. The name of the floor tiles are Matlocker and you can find it from this site www.jaymart.co.uk/search.php 2-Imperial College has solved the problem by acquiring a similar type of floor : Medium Rib Matting thickness 5 from the following supplier: Key Industrial Equipment Ltd 35 Black Moor Road Verwood Wimborne, BH31 6AT United Kingdom Fax: 0800 37303 In the case you are around Diamond you are welcome to have a look. Regards, Isabel ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Isabel De Moraes, MRSC Membrane Protein Laboratory Facilities Co-ordinator/Group Leader Membrane Protein Laboratory, Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 ODE, UK Tel: 01235 778664 email: isabel.de-mor...@diamond.ac.uk http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/MPL/default.htm http://www.rc-harwell.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Nicholas Keep Sent: Wed 2/16/2011 12:20 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] Liquid nitrogen resistant flooring Can anyone recommend a floor coating that passes category 2 containment (ie not wood) that is resistant to liquid nitrogen. Ie you can fill dewars on without cracking. Various solutions our estates people have fitted have all proved unsatisfactory. Bets wishes Nick -- Prof Nicholas H. Keep Executive Dean of School of Science Professor of Biomolecular Science Crystallography, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury LONDON WC1E 7HX email n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk Telephone 020-7631-6852 (Room G57 Office) 020-7631-6800 (Department Office) Fax 020-7631-6803 If you want to access me in person you have to come to the crystallography entrance and ring me or the department office from the internal phone by the door
