The SF-10+ lab pump, an enhanced version of flow chemistry specialists Vapourtec’s SF-10, offers a host of features that widen the opportunities for new applications, including the ability to pump hot reagents.
The SF-10+ builds on the pump’s existing capabilities with enhanced temperature control and can be heated between ambient and 80 C as well as allowing for the inlet and outlet tubes to be heated to the same temperature. In addition, all components within the pump are heated—ensuring no cold spots—and temperatures can be set using an easy-to-use touchscreen interface or via serial data commands.
The features of the SF-10+ expand the horizons for new synthetic routes or novel applications. Reagents can be pumped prior to flow crystallizations or in higher concentrations and viscosities. The SF-10+ can deal with reagents that are solid at room temperature but liquid at higher temperatures and can be used to pump products from either batch or flow reactors that could precipitate upon cooling.
The existing SF-10 has already proved itself to be a versatile self-priming laboratory pump that offers high levels of chemical compatibility with suspensions, light slurries and gases, operating up to a 10-bar pressure and delivering precise measurement and data. It is also compatible with a range of electrical interfaces.