Advanced vacuum technology

Today, inno­va­tions for vac­u­um-based appli­ca­tions in lab­o­ra­to­ries, ana­lyt­ics and research and devel­op­ment are the dri­vers for a health­i­er and safer life. Mod­ern vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy must there­fore con­vince in dai­ly oper­a­tions with prop­er­ties such as clean­li­ness, low noise and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. With a vac­u­um port­fo­lio devel­oped in line with this require­ment pro­file, Ley­bold presents its inno­va­tions at the lead­ing Ana­lyt­i­ca trade fair from 10 to 13 April in Munich: the com­pact Sogevac Neo D, the new oil-free Scrol­l­vac back­ing pump, the whis­per­ing Ecodry, and the new Turbo.Control i con­troller. In Hall B1, Stand 319, the team of the vac­u­um spe­cial­ist will be avail­able for all ques­tions relat­ing to the use of vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy in the lab­o­ra­to­ry, in ana­lyt­ics and in biotechnology.
When process­es are based on a per­ma­nent vac­u­um, the choice of suit­able com­po­nents is all the more impor­tant. Reli­able, high-per­for­mance vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy not only does the job; the work­ing envi­ron­ment also ben­e­fits from more peace, less dis­trac­tion and high­er air qual­i­ty. These fac­tors of ergonom­ics sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase the gen­er­al well-being. The result: employ­ee pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, moti­va­tion, but also the pre­ci­sion in demand­ing appli­ca­tions improve significantly.

Sogevac Neo D

With its new vac­u­um pumps for both indus­tri­al and high vac­u­um appli­ca­tions, the com­pa­ny takes this devel­op­ment into account. The new two-stage Sogevac Neo D rotary vane pump offers a whole range of advan­tages, espe­cial­ly for these gen­er­al chal­lenges. The pump offers ben­e­fits in three very deci­sive areas: it is clean­er, qui­eter and prac­ti­cal­ly maintenance-free.
The com­pact Sogevac Neo D is equipped with a high-qual­i­ty exhaust fil­ter inside the oil cas­ing. Built-in fil­tra­tion reduces the required inte­gra­tion vol­ume of the pump and ensures a clean envi­ron­ment with­out oil smoke or loss while pump­ing down. The acoustic prop­er­ties also set new stan­dards: it is 3 dB(A) qui­eter than con­ven­tion­al mod­els on the mar­ket. Sogevac Neo D is designed for max­i­mum uptime through state-of-the-art shaft seal­ing tech­nol­o­gy and the use of durable min­er­al oils. This results in main­te­nance-free oper­at­ing inter­vals of up to three years.

Scrollvac

The Scrol­l­vac series is char­ac­ter­ized by low pow­er con­sump­tion and high pump­ing speed. In addi­tion, the Scrol­l­vac plus with its extreme­ly light, com­pact design takes up very lit­tle space in plants and equip­ment. This makes it easy to inte­grate into both new and exist­ing vac­u­um sys­tems. Their low lev­el of vibra­tion and noise (less than 55 dB (A)) increas­es the cir­cle of poten­tial users, espe­cial­ly as these fac­tors play a cen­tral role in today’s ergonom­i­cal­ly designed work environments.
Their func­tion­al and design fea­tures sim­pli­fy dai­ly use of the back­ing pump. For exam­ple, the her­met­ic seal­ing of the rotat­ing parts from the pump cham­ber reduces the risk of con­t­a­m­i­na­tion. By dis­pens­ing with shaft seals, which are sus­cep­ti­ble to wear, the devel­op­ers have achieved a high­er degree of tight­ness. This ensures eco­nom­ic effi­cien­cy and pre­des­tines the Scrol­l­vac plus for uni­ver­sal use in robust processes.

Ecodry plus

The Ecodry­plus is a clean, com­pact and low-main­te­nance pump in the size class 40 to 60 m³/h, devel­oped to meet the require­ments in ana­lyt­i­cal or research lab­o­ra­to­ries. This pump class lies exact­ly in the tran­si­tion area between small lab­o­ra­to­ry instru­ments and large machines. The most impor­tant inno­va­tion, how­ev­er, undoubt­ed­ly lies in the reduc­tion of the noise lev­el, which the Ley­bold devel­op­ers have suc­ceed­ed in achiev­ing: “We have man­aged to build the pump as com­pact, easy to oper­ate and qui­et as is oth­er­wise only known from sig­nif­i­cant­ly small­er devices,” explains the respon­si­ble prod­uct man­ag­er, Alexan­der Kaiser, the posi­tion­ing fea­tures of the novelty.
The Ecodry­plus was devel­oped exact­ly accord­ing to the require­ments of sys­tems such as mass spec­trom­e­ters and elec­tron micro­scopes. It is there­fore also suit­able for large accel­er­a­tors because there is no con­t­a­m­i­na­tion by dust or oil. It offers users a high degree of com­fort, pump­ing speed per­for­mance and flexibility.

Turbo.Control i

The future-ori­ent­ed Turbo.Control i con­trols and mon­i­tors the tur­bo mol­e­c­u­lar pump prod­uct line Tur­bo­vac i(X) and is suit­able for use in high vac­u­um appli­ca­tions and inte­gra­tion into com­pact sys­tem solu­tions. The inno­va­tion can be oper­at­ed intu­itive­ly and pre­cise­ly via the dis­play and the front keys or via the pre-installed web serv­er inter­face. Via the web serv­er, all pump para­me­ters can be eas­i­ly viewed and set using PC or mobile devices. The most impor­tant para­me­ters are writ­ten to the log file; var­i­ous spe­cial data queries are pos­si­ble depend­ing on the requirements.
The device is gen­er­al­ly mount­ed in the rack, yet a desk­top case is avail­able sep­a­rate­ly. The Turbo.Control i can oper­ate one Tur­bo­vac i(X) each and can be con­nect­ed to all Tur­bo­vac i(X) mod­els for on-site con­trol and data read­ing. Two com­mu­ni­ca­tion chan­nels (RS 485 and USB) are includ­ed in the con­troller for pump con­trol and con­nec­tion of up to two vac­u­um gauges. Users can eas­i­ly view the log file with the Turbo.Control i Data View­er soft­ware tool, which can be down­loaded free of charge from the web­site. This MS Win­dows soft­ware tool analy­ses the data and event logs and mon­i­tors the sta­tus and the most impor­tant para­me­ters. The soft­ware tool Turbo.Control i is char­ac­ter­ized by intu­itive oper­at­ing menus and sim­ple oper­a­tion and thus offer a com­plete­ly new, com­fort­able user experience.
All devel­op­ment steps and result­ing advan­tage of these inno­va­tions are based on decades of expe­ri­ence that the com­pa­ny can draw on, espe­cial­ly in the field of ana­lyt­ics. “As a pio­neer in vac­u­um tech­nol­o­gy with our com­pre­hen­sive appli­ca­tion know-how, we know exact­ly what our cus­tomers in this seg­ment need. Our new vac­u­um pumps not only offer inno­v­a­tive con­cepts and a pro­duc­tiv­i­ty advan­tage for our cus­tomers. In most cas­es, we are able to opti­mize vac­u­um-based process­es in advance through our con­sult­ing,” explains Dieter Müller, Glob­al Busi­ness Devel­op­ment Man­ag­er Analytics.
Ley­bold at the Ana­lyt­i­ca: Hall B1, Stand 319