Huber's Minichiller is said to reduce water consumption to zero, offering a low-cost chilled water supply with environmentally friendly refrigeration for a range of laboratory cooling applications.
With the ever-rising cost and environmental impact of waste water, scientists and facility managers are increasingly looking for alternative ways of cooling applications in the laboratory.
A calculation based on water consumption shows that in a working week (eight hours a day, five days a week), the Minichiller saves approximately 48,000 litres of water.
The Minichiller has been designed as a space-saving tower and has a footprint of 225 x 360mm.
With a temperature range of -20C to +40C and cooling capacity of 300W at 15C, Minichillers are ideal for cooling reaction blocks, vapour traps, vacuum pump condensers, rotary evaporators or heat exchangers, supplying predictable and correct pressure, flow and temperature to applications resulting in tangible process efficiencies.
Because the Minichiller's internal volume is only two litres, it eliminates the risk of flooding in the laboratory.
This allows the process to be run unattended, further increasing efficiency.
The Minichiller features an easy-to-use microprocessor control with a large temperature display.
Alternatively, for applications requiring more functionality the controller can be supplied as an 'Advanced' version, which includes an RS232 interface and an external Pt100 sensor connection.
The Minichiller is also available with 1kW heating power and extended temperature range from -20C to 100C.
Minichillers are available as both water- and air-cooled units and with standard or advanced functionality.
All units are CFC and H-CFC free and use natural refrigerants.
