'Automation-Ready
Programmable Evaporator
The Ultravap Mistral is designed to remove the traditional laboratory
‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from microplates. Fully automating the
dry-down step has always been impossible because it is difficult to interface
liquid handling robots with traditional centrifugal-type evaporators.
The Ultravap Mistral design, by
dispensing with the rotating arm of the centrifuge and offering a fully-flat
front profile, overcomes this problem and is much better positioned to link
with your robot. With more than 20 years’ experience in producing deep well
microplates, we have thoroughly researched the problems of drying down organic
solvents in plates. This has led to the ultimate microplate blowdown evaporator
– the Ultravap Mistral.
The Ultravap Mistral is the most
sophisticated automation-friendly model yet, giving significant throughput
advantages to laboratories looking to optimise microplate sample preparation.
Faster than centrifugal evaporation for single plates, significant increases in
sample throughput are achieved through advanced evaporator head technology and
an innovative manifold design, which directly injects heated nitrogen into each
individual well of the microplate simultaneously.
The Ultravap Mistral may be operated
with a supply of clean, dry compressed air in place of nitrogen, if the
chemistry allows. Installation requires only connection to a gas supply and
mains electricity. Safety of operation is ensured as this CE-marked compact
unit fits into all fume cupboards and boasts full integral fume management
within the unit.
The new Ultravap Mistral is the
latest development of the highly successful Ultravap line of blowdown
evaporators and sample concentrators. It has been designed in close co-operation
with the leading suppliers of laboratory liquid handling robots and is suitable
for integration directly with the following manufacturers’ robots:
- Hamilton
Robotics – Star
- Tecan
– Freedom Evo
- Perkin
Elmer – Janus
- Beckman
Coulter – Biomek
The Ultravap Mistral offers a plate
shuttle which can serve and retrieve plates from the deck of most liquid
handlers. The colour touch-screen controlled dry down station accepts
interchangeable 24-, 48-, 96- or 384-needle heads. It comes complete with clear
safety screens and integral fume management leading to a 4 inch duct adaptor
that incorporates a fan for high speed fume removal.
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