E3100
Manual critical point dryer suitable for controlled drying of MEMs, hydrogels, and aerogels.
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.
Applications
- Automated critical point drying of delicate biological samples, high-moisture content samples, and MEMs.
Specifications
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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