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Microplate evaporators

Microplate evaporators

Microplate evaporators

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Overview of Microplate Evaporators: Porvair evaporators are designed to enhance laboratory efficiency by expediting solvent evaporation from microplates. They offer significant throughput advantages over traditional methods, utilizing advanced evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design that injects heated nitrogen into each well simultaneously. These units are easy to install, requiring only a gas supply and electricity, and are safe for use in fume cupboards. However, they are not suitable for high boiling solvents like DMSO and water.
MiniVap™ Features: The MiniVap is tailored for low usage research environments, offering quick drying times and compatibility with ANSI/SBS 96 well plates. It allows manual control over needle depth, gas temperature, and flow rate, providing faster drying than standard methods. It is compact and fits standard fume cupboards.
Ultravap™ RC Features: The Ultravap RC is a robot-compatible evaporator designed for integration with laboratory liquid handling robots. It features a microprocessor-controlled dry down station for various well plates and offers flexible programming with nine drying programs. It supports remote control via RS232 and is compatible with Tecan™, Hamilton™, and Caliper™ robotic handlers.
Nitrogen Blow-Down Principle: This method accelerates solvent evaporation by blowing warm gas into the microplate wells, providing energy for evaporation and reducing drying times. It is effective for most chromatography solvents but unsuitable for high-boiling solvents and acids.
System Requirements: The evaporators require a gas flow rate of 28L/min minimum and 80L/min maximum at 6 bar pressure. They can operate with nitrogen or dry compressed air, depending on the chemistry involved.
Contact Information: Porvair Sciences Ltd provides customer services and sales support through their offices in the UK, with contact details available for further inquiries.
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Porvair evaporators are designed to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from microplates prior to analysis or reconstitution in storage buffer. These evaporators give significant throughput advantages to laboratories looking to optimise microplate sample preparation productivity. Faster than centrifugal evaporation, significant increases in sample throughput are achieved through advanced evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design, which directly injects heated nitrogen into each individual well of the microplate simultaneously. The evaporators...

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MiniVap™ blowdown sample concentrator Qty/pack Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (230 Volts), with 96 spiral needles Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (230 Volts), with 96 straight needles Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (230 Volts), with 24 straight needles Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (110 Volts), with 96 spiral needles Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (110 Volts), with 96 straight needles LIFE SCIENCES Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (110 Volts), with 24 straight needles Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (230 Volts), without a head Blowdown Evaporator MiniVap™ (110 Volts), without a head AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES SOLID...

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The new Ultravap RC from Porvair Sciences is the latest fully robot-compatible version of our popular Ultravap nitrogen blow-down evaporator, suitable for integration within the safety enclosure of several leading laboratory liquid handling robots. Designed with the demands of linear robots very much in mind, the Ultravap RC comprises a fully microprocessor controlled dry down station for 24-, 96- or 384-well plates, together with clear safety side screens and a 4 inch fume hood duct adaptor. Designed for heat sensitive and thermally labile samples Nine different drying programmes can be retained...

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CUSTOM MANUFACTURE TISSUE CULTURE & EPIGENETICS AUTOMATION ACCESSORIES SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION LIFE SCIENCES Nitrogen blow-down Solvent compatibility The nitrogen blow-down principle is easy to understand. Warm gas is blown down into the wells of the microplate, just above the liquid level. The effect is to speed up solvent evaporation by providing more energy for the latent heat of evaporation. This enables a steady-state equilibrium to be reached more quickly, leading to shorter drying times. Nitrogen blow-down has been shown to be the easiest way to automate the frequent bottlenecks caused...

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P/N 420001 © Porvair Sciences Limited 2012. Produced by Cream Ink Limited www.creamink.com Printed in the UK. Accounts Porvair plc 7 Regis Place Bergen Way Kings Lynn Norfolk UK PE30 2JW Tel: 44 (0)1553 765500 Fax: +44 (0)1553 765599 Customer Services Porvair Sciences Ltd Clywedog Road South Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham North Wales UK LL13 9XS Tel: +44 (0) 1978 666240/666239 Fax: +44 (0) 1978 660007 Sales Office Porvair Sciences Ltd Dorset House Regent Park Kingston Road Leatherhead UK KT22 7PL Tel: +44 (0)1372 824290 Fax: +44 (0)1372 824271 email: [email protected] www.microplates.com...

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