Auto stop when dry function provides significant productivity savings by enabling the solvent removal system to determine automatically when the last samples have reached dryness
Genevac has announced a new version of the control software for its range of centrifugal evaporators that introduces a powerful new productivity-enhancing feature.
The unique auto stop when dry function provides significant productivity savings by enabling the solvent removal system to determine automatically when the last samples have reached dryness.
Until now, users needed to estimate the drying time for a given sample in such systems, which could lead to unnecessarily long runs in the evaporator. Genevac's Version II control software overcomes this problem by using one of two new methods to determine when dryness has been reached and then automatically shutting down the evaporator without further user intervention.
In the new software detection of sample dryness is determined either by the rate of heat flow into the sample or by temperature convergence using pre-positioned probes in sample holder wall and the sample. Either method gives significant timesavings over the old manual method as well as freeing up operator time for other more productive tasks.
Version II control software incorporating the auto stop when dry function is being fitted to all new Genevac HT-4X, -8 and -12 systems and is available as a retrofit upgrade on older Genevac series II machines.
