Welcome to the Neo Beam Alliance Limited Facility, and welcome to the virtual tour.  In this page, you will get a taste of what Neo Beam is, and what happens here on a daily basis.  So come inside and enjoy the tour!  Simply click on the thumbnail picture to enlarge it, and hover the mouse over the picture to see a description of it.

I.  Introduction to Neo Beam Alliance Limited
Hi, and welcome to Neo Beam.  Today you will be going on a virtual tour of our facility.  First of all, I would like to explain what this facility specifically does.  We are a joint business venture with Mercury Plastics, Inc., Kent Regional Business Alliance, and Kent State University.  Working with all three of our affiliates, we research, and produce space age plastics.  To put it specifically, we take we take polymer based products, plastics, and run them underneath an electron beam.  I will talk about the specifics of what happens when we travel into the beam chamber, where the actual beam is held.

Our building under construction. Our Building from another view. Front view of our building.  

II.  Lobby/Office Area Plus Our Video Conference Room
Fist part of our tour brings us into the lobby/office area and video conference room in the facility:  This section of the facility is dedicated to quiet work away from the plant section of the facility.  In this area are the offices of Dr. Roberto Uribe, Tom Goodner, Jack Juras, Scott Chapman, and Dr. Carlos Vargas.

Upon arrival at our facility, you could be taken to our video conference room where someone would come to great you.  In this room, we are able to conduct conferences, without threat of noise from the plant.  It also houses what is called a V-tel system, which stands for Video Telecommunications.  In this room, we can conduct live conference with faraway locations through the use of video.  In other words, we see them, and they see us, provided they have a V-tel system also.  During the school year, college courses are held with Kent State University Main Campus and Neo Beam.

Welcome to Neo Beam. Here is a picture of the loddy. Down the Hall is where the offices are located. The office of Andy Huston. Also in the lobby area. The Conference room. Welcome to the conference room. This is where we conduct meetings as well as classes.
Pictured here is our V-tel equipment. We can do virtual classes with main campus from this room. The conference room in action. Meeting.  

III.  Laboratories and Maintenance Area
 Next on the virtual tour is the laboratories and maintenance areas.  In these areas, we test samples and build special holding apparatus to hold products as they travel under the electron beam.  Specifically, in the maintenance area, we build these special holding units.  We have two laboratories in our facility.  One is devoted to the testing, and recording results, of samples after they are run under the electron beam.  This lab is specifically called the Dosimetry lab.  In this lab, we use what is called a Dosimeter, which looks like a thin piece of plastic, to test the effects of the beam on the polymers.   First we will test the non-irradiated Dosimeters to record there initial state.  After these results have been recorded, we will take them into the plant and irradiated them.  After they have been irradiated, we will bring the Dosimeters back into the lab to test the results against the original values of the same Dosimeter.  To test these irradiated dosimeters, we use a Spectrometer.  The second lab is dedicated to the analysis of the results.  In this lab, we take the results of the tests done in the previous lab and compare them to pervious experiments.  Also in this lab, is an industrial oven, which heats a finished sample to test the amount of heat it can withstand.
 

     


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