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Key Features

  • Automated control offering repeatable outcomes with minimal user intervention
  • Built-in adiabatic cooling for fast cool down rates allowing for more throughput
  • Easy-to-use and flexible software allowing for quick set-up of profiles
  • Status display to indicate process time remaining
  • Process driven, with individual user profiles for quick set-up time
  • Supplied with pre-set profiles covering different sample types
  • Screw top chamber for easy sample loading
  • Large viewing window ensuring observation of process flow
  • Small footprint ideal for use in fume hoods

Details

The new automated Critical Point Dryer.

  • Automated critical point drying of delicate biological samples, high-moisture content samples, and MEMs.

Instrument Dimensions

  • W 450 mm x H 325 mm x D 505 mm

Weight

  • 35 kg (48 kg packed weight)

Packed dimensions

  • 650 mm W x 620 mm D x 520 mm

Safety

  • Built-in safety devices in both hardware and software, including relief valves, level sensors, pressure switches and programming restraints

Chamber diameter

  • 60 mm Ø

Internal chamber height

  • 59 mm, usable chamber height = 34.5 mm, usable chamber volume = 97.5 ml

Critical point dryer liquid carbon dioxide (CO₂) requirements

  • All models require a cylinder of liquid CO₂ fitted with a siphon tube (normally indicated by a vertical white stripe on the cylinder). If there is any doubt regarding the presence of a siphon tube, advice should be sought from the supplier

Sample Holders

  • Standard specimen holder with 12 individual specimens wells (each 8 mm Ø x 8 mm H)

Holders for TEM grids and bulk specimens also available upon request.

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