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Process for concentrating specimens by evaporation of the solvent with a centrifugal evaporator-concentrator

US5084133A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 12, 1990
Grant dateJan 28, 1992
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Expiry dateMar 12, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T436/25375
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The centrifugal evaporator-concentrator comprises a central tubular pivot (18) surmounted by a nozzle (35) and constituting the pivot axis of a rotor (9) rotating in a vessel (8) closed by a cover (11). With the rotor rotating in the partial vacuum created by a vacuum pump (33), a small quantity of gas or air is temporarily and periodically admitted into the vessel, this gas being heated by a heating resistor (38) inside the vessel for the purpose of heating by conduction the specimens to be concentrated and of accelerating the rate of evaporation.

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