The MiniVap® nitrogen blowdown evaporator from Porvair Sciences is purpose designed for research and development departments where low numbers of individual microplates or vials need drying.

Porvair Sciences' MiniVap® nitrogen blowdown evaporator.Credit: Porvair SciencesThe MiniVap® is simple to operate and maintain. Installation requires only connection to a gas supply and standard mains socket. With manual control of the needle depth, gas temperature, and flow rate, it allows fine control and quicker drying times than other standard methods.

Purpose designed for removing solvents from vials and standard ANSI/SLAS-format microplates, the MiniVap® offer quicker dry-down times than traditional methods such as vacuum oven. Typically, the MiniVap® takes less than six minutes to remove volatile organic solvents from your HPLC fractions collected in 24- or 96-well microplates.    

Safety of operation is ensured as the CE-marked compact unit fits into all fume cupboards.

Porvair Sciences evaporators are designed to remove the traditional laboratory ‘bottleneck’ of solvent evaporation from microplates prior to analysis or reconstitution in storage buffer. These evaporators give significant throughput advantages to laboratories looking to optimize microplate sample preparation productivity. Faster than centrifugal evaporation, significant increases in sample throughput are achieved through advanced evaporator head technology and an innovative manifold design, which directly injects heated nitrogen into each individual well of the microplate simultaneously. 

For further information, please visit www.microplates.com/blowdown-evaporator-minivap/ or contact Porvair Sciences Ltd on +44-1978-661144 or enquiries@porvairsciences.com.

Established in 1992, Porvair Sciences is one of the largest global manufacturers of ultra-clean microplates and top-quality microplate equipment for life science, synthetic chemistry, and many other applications. Throughout North America—Porvair Sciences products are available and locally supported from sister company—JG Finneran Associates Inc. which also designs, manufactures, and distributes a complimentary range of specialist laboratory consumables including vials, filters, microplates, and closures. Porvair Sciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of Porvair plc.