Evaporators (MiniVap™)
MiniVap™ nitrogen blow down evaporators are designed to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from vials or microplates prior to analysis or reconstitution in storage buffer. These evaporators give significant throughput advantages to laboratories looking to optimize sample preparation productivity. The ability to safely and easily remove organic and chromatographic solvents from samples is vitally important. Samples can be dried down and re-constituted in a more suitable solvent, or they may simply be concentrated before analyses to increase sensitivity.
The nitrogen blow down process is ideal for lower boiling point organic solvents such as methanol, dichloromethane, hexane and acetonitrile. The robust design of the Minivap Gemini brings together two individually temperature-regulated evaporation positions with a wide choice of head styles and configurations. This means you can dry down a 96 well deep well plate at the same time as 48 HPLC vials. This breakthrough in productivity will speed up the evaporation bottleneck in your laboratory, increase the sensitivity of your analyses and quicken sample processing times.
MiniVap® Gemini
Voltage 110v or 220v Auto ranging power supply
Max Current: 10A
Heaters: Ambient to 60C
Heater setting: Via TK-32 programmers (2)
Evaporation Heads: 2, interchangeable 24, 48, 96 straight or 96 spiral needles.
Gas inlet: 8mm i.d. QuickConnect
Gas Pressure: Minimum 3 bar, maximum 7bar
Gas Control: Two independent needle valve controls
Gas Flow rate: Heaters inactive below 35l/min flow rate, max flow 70 L/min PER HEAD
Gas Requirements: supply at 3-7bar and up to 160L/Min (both heads)
Vertical travel: 55mm plate height
Plate adjustment: simultaneous height adjustment of both plates
Plate locators: two sets, individually adjustable
MiniVap®
Quicker dry down times than standard methods such as vacuum oven
Rests have shown that the MiniVap® can evaporate 500µl of methanol in less than 6 minutes
Designed for any ANSI/SLAS 96-well plate
24 vial head now available
Simple to install and operate
Easy adjustments of temperature, gas flow rates and needle depth into the wells
Compact footprint – fits all standard fume cupboards
