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Description
The photon-science facilities at PETRA III, the world’s largest storage ring, cover approximately one quarter of the synchrotron’s total length of 2300m in 5 different buildings. Over the years, we have planned and built several chemical laboratories to support the growing user community of about 4000 user visits per year. Today, we operate a total of 7 chemistry laboratories for external and internal users. The logistics of lab allocation, parallel user support, hardware distribution, lab maintenance, and safety represent a major challenge of this operating mode.
Preparing for PETRA IV, we need to balance the advantages and disadvantages of a large, central chemical facility and the expected increase in user visits with our current arrangement of smaller and decentralized laboratories.
