Hielscher has introduced the UIP2000hd (20kHZ, 2,000W), which it claims offers considerable advances in ultrasonic technology at an affordable price.
The UIP2000hd is an industrial ultrasonic device designed to provide high performance in a lightweight, compact design.
Hielscher's ultrasonic processors are designed for liquid processing, such as emulsification; dispersing; particle size reduction by milling and grinding; disintegration; extraction; or homogenising.
The UIP2000hd can be run at 2,000W continuously.
Its field of application reaches from R and D up to the industrial production of medium-scale volumes.
The UIP2000hd is commonly used for inline sonication (single pass or loop) in order to obtain a better processing quality, but it can be used for batch sonication too.
Important applications for the UIP2000hd include the production of very fine emulsions and suspensions; the particle-size reduction and wet-milling of particles down to micron- and nano-sizes; and the extracting and homogenising, as well as the reduction, of germs.
This 2,000W processor can be used for sewage sludge treatment to produce a better biogas yield.
It can also be used for intensive cleaning of continuous materials such as wires, tapes and profiles, as well as of single components or bigger bores.
By a broad range of manifold accessories, such as corresponding sonotrodes, various flow cell reactors and sound protection boxes, the perfect matching system can be assembled.
The typical flow rates of the UIP2000hd range between approximately 2-10m per day, depending on the particulate process.
For higher production throughput, the use of either multiple units or one of the larger Hielscher ultrasonic processors, such as the UIP4000, UIP10000 or UIP16000, is recommended.
The UIP2000hd allows for running at a wide range of ultrasonic parameters sets.
It delivers the power at a controlled amplitude level, so that the magnitude of the mechanical ultrasonic vibrations at the sonotrode is constant under all load conditions.
The amplitude can be changed from 50 to 100 per cent at the generator and by using various booster horns.
The set amplitude is constant, while sonicating any material at any pressure.
This feature gives the operator full control over the amplitude.
The UIP2000hd comes with an automatic frequency tuning that finds the optimal operational frequency automatically and ensures thereby a higher overall energy efficiency and reliability.
This flexibility allows for finding the optimal process configuration.
The UIP2000hd offers exact reproducibility and linear scalability.
Any sonication setup can be reproduced and used at continuous operation, or can be scaled up to any larger unit.
For the individual process set-up, Hielscher offers a wide range of accessories such as sonotrodes, boosters and flow cell reactors and sound-protection boxes.
The PC-Control optional software interface allows for the recording of the individual test runs.
The 7kg transducer and 12.5kg generator result in an ultrasonic system that is easy to handle.
The ultrasound is generated by the use of piezo-electrical ceramic components in the transducer.
According to Hielscher, the piezoelectric technique has several advantages over the magnetostrictive ultrasound generation.
In magnetostrictive transducers, an electromagnetic field is generated by electrical power, which causes the vibration of a magnetostrictive material.
In Hielscher's piezo-electric transducer, the electrical oscillations are directly converted into longitudinal vibrations, so that a higher conversion efficiency is achieved.
By that, the cooling requirements are considerably reduced.
A complex installation of an external cooling supply, such as cooling water circulation or compressed air, is not necessary.
Hielscher offers special flow cells offering the advanced CIP (clean-in-place) and SIP (sterilise-in-place) requirements.
The transducer of the UIP2000hd is IP65 grade and withstands dirt, dust, moisture or outside operation.
Its energy transformation efficiency means that no cooling by water or compressed air is required.
The lower heat loss means that more energy is transmitted into the processed liquid, so that a more intensive sonication is achieved.
According to Hielscher, the UIP2000hd has an overall energy efficiency of approximately 80-90 per cent from the power plug into the liquid.