The Ultravap Levante is the latest in our popular series of nitrogen blowdown sample concentrator and evaporators. It brings the many benefits associated with our flagship evaporator, the Ultravap Mistral, in an affordable, automation-ready package. It is a robot-ready, integration compatible state-of-the-art single plate evaporator to meet the current needs of the modern laboratory whilst providing the option of fully automating dry-down bottlenecks of the future.

• Robot-compatible dry down station for LC/MS applications
• Reversible, intuitive graphical colour touch screen
• Choice of 24-, 48-, 96-, 384-well and autosampler vial heads
• Remote control from PC option
• Small footprint

The Ultravap Levante is fully programmable and easy to control from a robot liquid handler and can also be fitted with the ducted fan fume extraction option. Operated via a reversible full colour touch screen, software features include stored alphanumerically named programmes (5), multi-step (3) evaporation programmes and full administrative control (user and admin levels). Combined with real-time run displays showing actual gas temperature, gas flow rate and stage height the Ultravap Levante puts you more in control of the evaporation process. The removable acrylic splash guard protects the user and also ensures efficient removal of the solvent vapour from the evaporation table.

The Ultravap Levante is supplied with an evaporator head of your choice, which may be interchanged quickly and easily with a head of a different pattern as your workflow demands. The precision engineered mechanism uses a standard ANSI/SLAS plate nest to accept most microplate formats and tube racks. It can accommodate tubes up to 80mm in height in a variety of configurations to allow the use of 2 Dram vials, 1.5ml HPLC vials, bar-coded tubes in racks and many other common formats. Evaporator heads are made to match these formats in 24-, 48-, 96- and 384-well configurations. Our unique 96-well spiral needle head, which creates a vortex in certain plates, speeds up evaporation.

Ultravap Levante can be operated from both a gas cylinder and an in-house supply of nitrogen or clean dry air. The blow-down technique is very useful for removing chromatography solvents such as dichloromethane, acetonitrile, methanol and hexane. However, it is not suitable for higher boiling solvents such as DMF, DMSO and large quantities of water.

The Ultravap Levante meets the requirements of most busy laboratories for the removal of chromatographic solvents prior to LC/MS analysis, dry recovery or reconstitution. It is a flexible, efficient, workhorse instrument with the possibility of remote control and full automation with robots having extended gripper arms.