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The compact benchtop system includes a built-in high-performance vacuum pump, concentration chamber with electromagnetic drive for quiet, maintenance-free operation, and a fixed aluminium rotor for microcentrifuge tubes. To use your miVac DNA – simply position the system on your lab bench, connect the power lead and exhaust tube and then start benefiting from fast, troub...

Working with oils and fats can be difficult. Whether extracting and recovering additives, evaluating lipid content of foods or characterising reclaimed cooking oils before reprocessing or conversion to biofuels, oils and fats can be difficult to dry. Extraction and separation techniques, including Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE), Counter Current Chromatography a...

The development of biopharmaceuticals often requires lyophilized formulations to produce stable drug products, beginning with laboratory experiments followed by scale-up to larger lyophilizers. Limited supply and high cost of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) can present major challenges during formulation and process development. It’s necessary to have enough API ...

Using the most advanced proven technology in evaporation science, the EZ-2 Series has been designed specifically for solvent removal in many areas of scientific research, whether concentration of samples or complete drying is required. For many applications an optimised EZ-2 evaporator is available to suit your solvent removal needs. The EZ-Envi is created specificall...

Rocket technology enables the rapid evaporation of larger volumes of solvent in parallel and without supervision. The system controls the whole process, temperature, duration, prevention of bumping and foaming as well as stopping the method at a defined volume of concentrate or as a fully dried sample. To provide unmatched operational versatility - Rocket evaporators...

Hotpack Stability Chambers are used in the pharmaceutical, automotive, and cosmetic industries to test the resilience of product samples under controlled temperature and humidity variables. Hotpack Stability Chambers are also used to test packaged food in sealed bags for moisture permeability. A leading national naval laboratory relies on Hotpack Stability Chambers to ho...

Hotpack Stability Chambers are used in the pharmaceutical, automotive, and cosmetic industries to test the resilience of product samples under controlled temperature and humidity variables. Hotpack Stability Chambers are also used to test packaged food in sealed bags for moisture permeability. A leading national naval laboratory relies on Hotpack Stability Chambers to ho...

The LyoLearn™ program of free educational webinars, delivered by industry experts, are devoted to lyophilization, freeze-drying and related topics. Attendees to each of the live sessions are encouraged to ask questions of the presenter and get their answers in real time. On 26th September 2017 at 9:00 and 13:00 Eastern Time, Timothy R. McCoy of Genzyme will present 'L...

When working with certain HPLC solvents, such as acetonitrile / water or methanol / water, a fully dried result can be hard to achieve due to interactions with the dissolved sample - resulting in the formation of a gum or oil. Lyophilisation is often the preferred method of sample drying in this case, achieving a high level of dryness with low residual solvent levels. Th...

Rocket Synergy evaporator controls are very easy to use - simply load your samples, select the correct method, press start and walk away. The evaporator is equipped with high performance features that prevent foaming, bumping and cross contamination. A built-in cold trap provides very high levels of solvent recovery, even with volatile organic solvents. Auto-draining, un...

Using an animated video format - SP Scientific introduces the science of ControLyo® Technology, the process of implementation, and its potential financial benefits to businesses through factors such as shorter cycle times, reduced waste, and improved product quality. The video shows how staff at an illustrative pharmaceutical company are faced with slowed production ...

Genevac has remained an industry leader by partnering with customers to understand the obstacles involved in using centrifugal evaporation/concentration systems. This partnership has led to the development of a range of innovations including Dri-Pure®, SampleGenie™, temperature control and highly solvent resistant build quality making Genevac evaporators the leading tool...

Many laboratories still rely upon the use of a rotary evaporator to perform the evaporation part of their sample preparation protocol prior to LC-MS or GC-MS analysis. While rotary evaporator methods often give good recoveries, they can only handle a single sample, require continuous monitoring to control the process and to ensure that no foaming or bumping occurs. F...

The LyoCapsule freeze dryer's small chamber incorporates a unique cylindrical inner chamber, or ‘capsule,’ to hold the vials and utilizes wall temperature control to ensure that edge vials dry under the same process conditions as center vial. Employing this technology, this mini freeze dryer can be used to mimic the performance of a larger development freeze dryer, util...

The analytical method calls for good upstream sample preparation to eliminate the effects of the matrix, and can be manual and time consuming, particularly where evaporation is concerned. The authors describe how the installation of the Genevac EZ-2 evaporator in their laboratory is estimated to save the laboratory 2-3 hours per day that previously was spent on evapo...

The new Tips and Tricks series of short videos (www.youtube.com/user/spscientific/playlists), presented by Genevac applications specialists, highlights some of ways to get the best out of your evaporation system. This includes informative videos on topics including: how to load samples correctly ; select the best method for your application ; expert advice on choosing th...

Ian Whitehall, Chief Marketing Officer of SP stated, “In this leadership role, Rob will be heading our product management and technical marketing teams, assuring that SP Scientific product strategies are aligned with the evolution of current and emerging markets, as well as driving continued enhancement and new product development focused on design, reliability, and ease...

Whitehall, who joined SP in 2005 through the company’s acquisition of Genevac, Ltd. from Thermo Fisher Scientific has served as Chief Sales Officer since 2016. In making the announcement, SP CEO Bill Downs stated, “Ian has done an outstanding job in shaping and managing our sales and service organization to strategically support our diverse product portfolio and routes t...

When synthesising and purifying organic molecules, hydrochloric acid (HCl) can be a very useful reagent for instance for t-BOC deprotection of amines, preparing acid chlorides and re-salt formation Its preferential use over other mineral acids (that can produce undesirable side effects) and trifluoroacetic acid (that may leave unwanted fluoroacetate groups behind) is we...

Traditionally protocols for concentration of chromatographic fractions has involved drying multiple fractions in an evaporator, re-suspending pooled fractions into a single vial and then re-drying before storage and analysis. Even with modern centrifugal evaporators such processes typically take 2-3 days to complete. Fully compatible with a wide range of HPLC or GC v...

The Series 3 HT Evaporator from Genevac sets a new benchmark for enhanced evaporation and lyophilisation results. Featuring an integral -75°C condenser,operating at higher power than any other commercially available condenser, users of LyoSpeed™ technology on Series 3 HT Evaporators report that a greater percentage of their samples now yield dry powders which can be accu...

Due to a warming global environment there has been a rise in occurrences of cyanobacteria blooms in lakes which can generate cyanotoxins. With surface water a major source of drinking water, the presence of cyano bacterial blooms pose a potential threat to human health. Using Ultra-high Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) researchers have been able to improve the...

Incorporating an improved pressure controller with intuitive programming and graphical display - miVac concentrators are now even easier to use. Featuring solid aluminium JetRotors - second generation miVac concentrators offer unmatched speed of evaporation in an affordable entry level system. Capable of removing solvents from a variety of sample formats including tu...

As the only U.S.-based manufacturer to offer complete vial handling solutions covering washing, sterilization, filling, stoppering, capping and both tray and freeze dryer loading/unloading equipment – SP Scientific’s PennTech® brand has earned an international reputation for supplying reliable, high performance equipment. Offering vial handling equipment for low to hi...

In this presentation, Mr. Luoma examines the benefits of the technology for high fill-volume configurations and presents new data regarding the mechanism of the ControLyo™ Technology. The presentation shows how gaining a more complete understanding of the mechanism of nucleation using ControLyo™ Technology ensures more robust freezing when scaling from the lab to comme...

Drying HPLC purification fractions, such as water and acetonitrile, is a routine yet essential task in many pharmaceutical laboratories. Typically labs require HPLC fractions to be dried to a powder form, such that samples can be accurately weighed, easily sub-sampled and re-dissolved. To provide a rapid, high-throughput alternative to freeze drying of such samples - G...

or end-user exposure to harmful products. The white paper provides an informative introduction to financial and risk avoidance justification factors that support implementation of external vial washers in pharmaceutical product processing areas. Further information is provided on sources of contamination in these processes and how they might arise. The authors a...

Combined with Genevac's continuous running condensers, autostop when dry control software allows easy unattended operation offering the possibility of significant increases in productivity through use of overnight evaporation runs. Until the introduction of autostop when dry control software - evaporators users had to constantly monitor or estimate the drying time for...

The third generation of the EZ-2 Series Centrifugal Evaporators is the pinnacle of parallel evaporation that draws on the expertise of Genevac engineers and the experiences of many laboratory scientists. Using the most advanced proven technology in evaporation science, the EZ-2 Series has been designed and is proven to safely and efficiently remove solvents from many dif...

In recent years HPLC/MS/MS and UPLC have become the sensitive and specific techniques of choice for the detection of algal toxins in water. While the majority of published studies employ SPE for preparing environmental samples for MS or UPLC analysis, using this methodology can be very time consuming. In this paper a direct solvent evaporation methodology, using the G...

SP which manufactures a full range of research through production lyophilization equipment and technologies has had a licensing agreement with Praxair, Inc. to provide ControLyo™ technology as part of its portfolio since 2010. In making the announcement, Bill Downs, President and CEO of SP noted that moving from licensing to ownership “will allow SP Scientific to wor...

Over the last 6 years, SP Scientific Hands-On freeze drying training courses have proven invaluable to attendees. Tangible benefits that attendees have immediately realised on returning to work include increased productivity through cutting hours from their freeze drying cycle recipes and troubleshooting real issues faced in their daily work environments. SP Senior Br...

Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is extensively used to treat pain and reduce inflammation in humans and animals. Traditionally, livestock carcasses on the Indian subcontinent and in Africa have been left out by the millions for scavengers, particularly vultures, to consume. Over the last decade several species of the vultures that were the prim...

Genevac reports that its proprietary Dri-Pure® technology, available as standard on Series 3 HT, EZ-2 and Rocket Synergy evaporators, enables scientists to rapidly dry their samples without foaming, cross-contamination or loss of sample due to solvent bumping. The unique Dri-Pure® technology works by reducing pressure in the evaporation chamber in combination with an ...

In recent years there has also been considerable interest in the synthesis and separation of enantiomers of organic compounds especially because of their growing importance in the natural products, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. In these preparative syntheses the chiral analytes of interest are typically separated in large volumes of solvent. Concentratio...

This free software resource is available on the SP Scientific website**. Users obtain a starting point for primary drying duration and the maximum product temperature at the sublimation interface using pertinent information, such as shelf temperature and chamber pressure, from which an optimized freeze-drying cycle can be developed. The LMC is based on the steady-state h...