Environmentally Friendly ‘Greenhouse Effect’...

The GreenHouse Blowdown Evaporator from Radleys sets the standard for rapid and safe removal of solvents from samples in tubes, vials and microplates.

Unlike traditional blowdown evaporators the environmentally friendly design of the GreenHouse Blowdown Evaporator maintains all of the evaporating solvent and vapours in an enclosed system, allowing subsequent trapping and collection via a high performance glass condenser.

Using a precisely controlled flow of inert gas channelled through a multi-pin blowdown plate, with a unique design enabling uniform flow through each pin, combined with digitally controlled heating, the system is able to rapidly remove solvent from up to 24 samples in parallel. Test data is available showing faster drying times, compared to using a centrifugal evaporator, 22 minutes for 8 x 20ml scintillation vials each containing 5ml of Methanol and 35 minutes for 24 x 7ml tubes each containing 2ml of Acetonitrile.  Precise heat and gas flow control, and operation at atmospheric pressure minimises the possibility of sample damage and cross-contamination due to solvent bumping found with some vacuum evaporators or splashing found with other blowdown evaporators.

The GreenHouse Blowdown system can be used as a stand-alone bench-top personal evaporator as well as offering the upgrade flexibility to perform parallel evaporation post synthesis when integrated with a Radleys GreenHouse Parallel Synthesiser.

Radleys is the market leader for low cost parallel synthesis tools, offering an unrivalled range of affordable synthesis, purification, evaporation and work-up systems to aid the productivity of chemists from industry to academia. With over 6,000 parallel chemistry systems installed worldwide, Radleys have a proven track record. The true innovation of Radleys products is their simplicity, which not only makes them easy to use - but also reduces maintenance and repairs to virtually zero - ensuring a long and productive life.