Plastic particle pump sampler is able to run sampling on 4 different mesh sizes during one deployment, while keeping a precise account on the total volume, measured by a magnetic/inductive flow meter with accuracy of typical 0,035 %. The pump can run continuously, or you can program it for a specific volume.

Due to its very flexible range of filter sizes (ranging from 1000 µm down to 100 µm), it has proven itself a very useful tool in sampling plastic particles in the ocean as well as lakes. Other sizes (down to 20 µm) on request; in general, we recommend 50 µm as a minimum; a small mesh size may clog very fast thus reducing the pump's capacity. The filter plates themselves can easily be removed thus supporting pumping with fewer or none filters at all.

As a counter part to the more well known Manta Trawl net the pump's onboard computer gives users the chance to program the precise amount of water they want sampled, ensuring them a very precise data that is fully able to be compared with other samples done with similar pumps with very high scientific guarantees; this is primary due to the fact that the water pumped is first measured after it has gone through the filters preventing any faulty data with organic material clogging up the filter sample area.

Standard delivery comes with 20 m of cable for the data and the power supply. Extension of the cable length to be ordered together with the pump.

IMPORTANT: The pump must be deployed by a separate steel wire or similar, as the cable cannot bear the pump's weight. Deploying this pump requires a constant relief of the cable in its entire length, to avoid any cable damage because of the cable's weight.