Lyostat 2 ? Fully Integrated Freeze Drying Microscope

Lyostat 2 ? Fully Integrated Freeze Drying Microscope
By: Biopharma Technology Limited
Product Description:
Do you want to quickly identify the key parameters of a formulation pre-lyophilization or continue to waste time, money and product with traditional trial and error techniques?
Did you know that just a 1?C increase in drying temperature can result in as much as a 13% increase in primary drying rate?
Knowing the critical parameters of a formulation such as its eutectic or collapse temperature are vital if you want to quickly develop efficient and effective freeze-drying cycles. Often a single cycle is used for a variety of products which may be conservative but highly inefficient in terms of both time and expense. Modern control systems allow multi-recipe choice and cycle optimisation.
The unique Lyostat 2 freeze drying microscope, is designed to quickly and accurately identify these parameters in typically less than one hour and is extremely simple to use.
Lyostat 2 is a fully integrated freeze-drying microscope that enables critical events such as collapse and melting to be observed in situ, as well as characteristics such as skin or crust formation to be observed and identified. The system comprises a compound microscope, focused onto a sample that sits in a vacuum-tight, temperature-controlled stage, which acts as a ?micro-freeze-dryer?. The freezing and drying behaviour of the sample can be determined visually, and the system is controlled through a PC, which provides image- and data- capture and archiving functions.
Lyostat 2 and Lyotherm 2 together provide valuable information that can be fed back into both formulation and cycle development processes. In addition, BTL has more innovative analytical instruments in the development pipeline.
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