Qdry

• Automated control offering repeatable outcomes with minimal user intervention
• Built-in adiabatic cooling for fast cool down rates allowing for more throughput
• Easy-to-use and flexible software allowing for quick set-up of profiles
• Status display to indicate process time remaining
• Process driven, with individual user profiles for quick set-up time
• Supplied with pre-set profiles covering different sample types
• Screw top chamber for easy sample loading
• Large viewing window ensuring observation of process flow
• Small footprint ideal for use in fume hoods

• Automated critical point drying of delicate biological samples, high-moisture content samples, and MEMs.

Instrument Dimensions

• W 450 mm x H 325 mm x D 505 mm

Weight

• 35 kg (48 kg packed weight)

Packed dimensions

• 650 mm W x 620 mm D x 520 mm

Safety

• Built-in safety devices in both hardware and software, including relief valves, level sensors, pressure switches and programming restraints

Chamber diameter

• 60 mm Ø

Internal chamber height

• 59 mm, usable chamber height = 34.5 mm, usable chamber volume = 97.5 ml

Critical point dryer liquid carbon dioxide (CO₂) requirements

• All models require a cylinder of liquid CO₂ fitted with a siphon tube (normally indicated by a vertical white stripe on the cylinder). If there is any doubt regarding the presence of a siphon tube, advice should be sought from the supplier

Sample Holders

• Standard specimen holder with 12 individual specimens wells (each 8 mm Ø x 8 mm H)

Holders for TEM grids and bulk specimens also available upon request.