For more than a quarter of a century, Genevac has followed a continuous programme of collaborative research and development in order to become the world leader in laboratory evaporation science and engineering. The culmination of this work is a
revolutionary evaporation technology, incorporated for the first time in the Rocket™ Evaporator.
Developed as a consequence of users’ demands for an evaporator that could quickly process larger volumes of solvent in parallel and without supervision, the Rocket Evaporator is designed to dry or concentrate six flasks, each containing up to 450ml of solvent. Alternatively a special holder or "
Puck" can replace the flask and carry 3 ASE tubes in each position. The user is able to focus on other tasks, confident that the Rocket will achieve perfect, reproducible results every time.
There are two principle applications for the Rocket:
A film showing how the Rocket works and the application of the Rocket can be viewed by
clicking here.
The Rocket evaporator has been specifically designed with automated sample concentration in mind. Typically, samples require concentratation before analysis to enable more accurate results to be obtained, and is often used in the field of Environmental Analysis, for example, to determine if there are any pesticide residues in a vegetable crop.
The Rocket can concentrate up to 6 flasks of 450ml, and if desired, concentrate the samples directly into a 2ml GC vial, all with no user intervention. The speed of evaporation previously not been available, and enables users to abandon highly labour intensive methods, and make time for science.
The Rocket Evaporator has been designed to concentrate and dry samples very fast. The Rocket can dry up to 6 flasks of 450ml, and if desired, concentrate the samples directly into small vials, all with no user intervention. The speed of evaporation previously not been available, and enables users to abandon highly labour intensive methods, and make time for science rather than attending to their evaporator.
Each Puck can hold three ASE
® tubes, taking the total capacity of the
Rocket Evaporator to 18 tubes. The Rocket dries these tubes very quickly but provides complete safety for the sample. Dri-Pure
® technology prevents bumping and cross contamination and the system has precise temperature control - not forgetting that your samples are cold while they are boiling. Rocket delivers very high analyte recoveries, even for the most volatile analytes.
To concentrate most samples in ASE
® tubes, it is necessary to add a solvent keep. More can be found about this methodology on the
Concentration technology page.
