Intelligent technology for modern analytics

Low-noise, oil-free vac­u­um solu­tions, ener­gy effi­cien­cy and opti­mized data eval­u­a­tion are the require­ments in ana­lyt­ics and the asso­ci­at­ed research and lab­o­ra­to­ry envi­ron­ments, such as mass spec­trom­e­try. Vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy func­tions almost as a heart in most sys­tems, as it enables process­es to run. Often how­ev­er, lit­tle atten­tion is paid to the cor­rect choice of vac­u­um com­po­nents, which is nev­er­the­less an essen­tial fac­tor for the effi­cien­cy of ana­lyt­i­cal or even man­u­fac­tur­ing processes.

Fore vacuum – innovative technology supports the environment

Oil-free vac­u­um is the method of choice here. With the Ecodry series, Ley­bold offers a clean, silent, com­pact and low-main­te­nance pump for use in ana­lyt­i­cal or research lab­o­ra­to­ries. This pump class lies exact­ly in the tran­si­tion area between small lab­o­ra­to­ry devices and large machines. How­ev­er, the most sig­nif­i­cant inno­va­tion is undoubt­ed­ly the reduc­tion of the noise lev­el: “The pump is com­pact, low-vibra­tion, pow­er­ful, easy to oper­ate and very qui­et in its design”, states Prod­uct Man­ag­er Alexan­der Kaiser.

The Ecodry plus was devel­oped exact­ly in line with the require­ments of sys­tems such as mass spec­trom­e­ters and elec­tron micro­scopes. It is there­fore also suit­able for use in large accel­er­a­tors, because there is no con­t­a­m­i­na­tion by dust or oil. It offers users a high degree of com­fort, pump­ing speed per­for­mance and flexibility.

Equipped with two flex­i­ble inter­faces, the pump can also be remote-con­trolled. When used in com­mer­cial analy­sis sys­tems, it is often inte­grat­ed into the plant con­trol sys­tem and can be start­ed, stopped, var­ied in speed and also mon­i­tored as required.

High vacuum – Plug & Play pump systems

The devices of the Tur­bo­lab series are plug-and-play high vac­u­um pump sys­tems and offer a wide range of vari­ants: They are com­pact, ful­ly assem­bled and can be put into oper­a­tion imme­di­ate­ly. Dif­fer­ent con­fig­u­ra­tions cov­er the vac­u­um require­ments of appli­ca­tions in the R & D mar­kets and ana­lyt­i­cal appli­ca­tions. The unique oil-free hybrid bear­ing of the Tur­bo­vac i/iX tur­bop­umps and the choice of dif­fer­ent dry-com­press­ing fore vac­u­um pumps allows hydro­car­bon-free oper­a­tion. These com­pact pump sys­tems are deliv­ered ful­ly assem­bled and ready for operation.

They include a tur­bo­mol­e­c­u­lar pump, a back­ing pump and an inno­v­a­tive TPU dis­play unit. Both com­pact table­top and mobile cart ver­sions are avail­able and offer flex­i­ble and con­ve­nient oper­a­tion. Instal­la­tion kits for vari­able mount­ing of the tur­bop­ump away from the pump­ing sta­tion frame can also be obtained.

A wide range of acces­sories, such as seal­ing gas and / or vent­ing valve, back­ing vac­u­um safe­ty valve, cool­ing unit, heat­ing tape, etc. facil­i­tates the adap­ta­tion to indi­vid­ual requirements.

Today, data and its cor­rect inter­pre­ta­tion are essen­tial fac­tors in machine-based research and devel­op­ment, but also in man­u­fac­tur­ing. There­fore, the mea­sure­ment tech­nol­o­gy asso­ci­at­ed with vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy is cru­cial for the eval­u­a­tion of process­es from basic research to indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing. Ley­bold there­fore offers a wide range of mea­sur­ing instru­ments, sen­sors and components.

Measure – Analyze — Optimize

Tur­bo­lab sys­tems can be equipped with Ther­movac TTR fore vac­u­um gauges and Pen­ning­vac PTR high vac­u­um sen­sors. Con­nect­ed sen­sors are detect­ed and pres­sure read­ings are auto­mat­i­cal­ly shown on the display.

All crit­i­cal para­me­ters and oper­at­ing con­di­tions such as errors, warn­ings, fre­quen­cy, tem­per­a­ture etc. are auto­mat­i­cal­ly record­ed in an inter­nal mem­o­ry based on a stan­dard time inter­val and can be adjust­ed by the user direct­ly on site. An inte­grat­ed web serv­er allows remote con­trol, mon­i­tor­ing and con­fig­u­ra­tion of the Tur­bo­lab devices from the mobile device or from the com­put­er via browser.

A full port­fo­lio of sen­sors and con­trollers makes the mea­sure­ment and con­trol of process­es easy. Ley­bold offers real inno­va­tions with its sen­sors for vac­u­um mea­sure­ment in numer­ous appli­ca­tions in the pres­sure range of 2000 to 10–12 mbar.

These mea­sur­ing devices offer high­er pre­ci­sion, an extend­ed mea­sur­ing range, improved repro­ducibil­i­ty and process sta­bil­i­ty. They com­ple­ment the port­fo­lio with nov­el inter­faces and addi­tion­al areas for use in lock chambers.

Ley­bold offers sen­sors of var­i­ous designs with their own char­ac­ter­is­tic mea­sur­ing ranges. A dis­tinc­tion is made between direct and indi­rect pres­sure measurements.

These gas type inde­pen­dent vac­u­um sen­sors cov­er mea­sure­ments direct­ly and mechanically:

• capac­i­tive CERAVAC mea­sur­ing devices and
• capac­i­tive DI/DU and piezo pres­sure sensors

The indi­rect, gas type depen­dent pres­sure mea­sure­ment is pos­si­ble with the sensors

• Ther­movac, a ther­mal con­duc­tiv­i­ty vac­u­um gauge accord­ing to Pirani
• Pen­ning­vac cold cath­ode ion­iza­tion vac­u­um gauges based on the prin­ci­ple of the reversed
  magnetron.
• Ion­i­vac hot cath­ode ion­iza­tion vac­u­um gauges accord­ing to Bayard-Alpert.

The con­trollers of the Graphix and Dis­play series com­plete the range of accessories.

Ley­bold offers from one source every­thing from con­sult­ing to after sales options to sup­port the cus­tomers in achiev­ing their goals.