Evaporator System for Academic Multi-User Environments

21 Jul 2015
Lois Manton-O'Byrne, PhD
Executive Editor

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Designed to concentrate or completely dry samples the EZ-2 from Genevac is the evaporator of choice for hundreds of academic groups in chemistry, pharmacology, biology, natural product and environmental science departments worldwide.

Benefiting from a suite of pre-programmed methods the EZ-2 evaporator has proven highly popular in multi-user environments. Running the EZ-2 evaporator is highly intuitive. Just load your samples, select maximum safe temperature for samples, select solvent type and hit start. Offering true unattended operation capability the EZ-2 requires no user training, even a beginner can competently use the system within 5 minutes. Durably constructed and with the option of ‘HCl resistant’ components throughout the evaporation pathway, the EZ-2 is perfect for safe student use.

The EZ-2 evaporator is compatible with a wide selection of sample holders enabling evaporation from most common sample container formats including round-bottom flasks up to 500ml, tubes up to 150mm long, vials, and custom reaction blocks as well as shallow and deep-well microplates.

Benefiting from a high performance scroll pump, that delivers deep vacuum, the EZ-2 Elite evaporator is able to routinely remove even very high boiling solvents such as DMSO and NMP. In addition internal heating of vapour duct and system components ensures that solvents only collect in the SpeedTrap™ condenser, and not anywhere else. The SpeedTrap condenser on the EZ-2 Elite evaporator comes the benefit of automatic defrost and drain technology.

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