Reactors now in fume cupboard friendly format
Posted by Ben Proudlove on Fri, Nov 25, 2011 @ 11:15 AM
Traditionally the performance magnedrive dr
iven stirred laboratory reactors were controlled using a motor hung behind the vessel and linked to the magnedrive using a belt drive. So something like the design pictured here:
These worked great and allowed stirring up to 3300rpm and nearly 800Nmm of static torque (so capable of meeting most research requirements), the only downside was that the dimensions made them a bit unfriendly/tricky for housing inside fume cupboards. More and more customers needed to do this, and while lower specification magnedrives were available in inline format these were a bit shaky in case you needed to stir faster or your product became more viscous.
So we listened and now all our standard reactors come with inline motor and magnedrive and still with speeds up to 3300rpm and nearly 800Nmm of static torque. So still the same reactors and magnedrive performance that you'd expect from Autoclave Engineers and still designed to go to high pressures and temperatures for hours per day for 30+ years (some of our current customers still use AED reactors from the 1960s), but in a nice compact fume cupboard friendly format.
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