High Powered Lab Homogenizer Serves Many Functions

Lab homogenizers are offered  in several power ratings designated by wattage, recommended processing volumes and speeds. Homogenizer applications include blending, emulsifying, dispersing, cell disrupting, particle reduction and similar processing steps.   They are widely used in labs, universities and industries. High powered lab homogenizers such as the CAT Scientific X1740 homogenizer drive motor are also capable…

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Compressed Air Lab Homogenizers for Hazardous Areas

Certain laboratory environments can contain flammable vapors or gases that could be ignited by stray electrical sparks.  Equipment used in such labs – such as explosion-proof refrigerators and freezers  as well as explosion-proof electrical fixtures – require special design characteristics.  The same applies electrically powered benchtop lab instruments such as lab homogenizers.  The CAT Scientific…

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How Lab Homogenizers Contribute to R&D

Some of us may remember grandma with the spoon and bowl or mom with the Mixmaster but for R&D scientists this mixing action is accomplished by using lab homogenizers.  These compact but immeasurably useful benchtop instruments are used to develop scalable processes for processing ingredients – some of which may be initially incompatible – into…

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How to Maintain Lab Homogenizer Shaft Bearings

As with mechanical components in top-tier watches, finely tuned engines and similar precision equipment, lab homogenizer shaft bearings require careful attention and “TLC” if researchers rely on these mixing, blending and dispersing tools when developing new or improved processes across a broad spectrum of food, drug and industrial product manufacturing. Maintaining lab homogenizer shaft bearings…

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Small Sample Emulsifying with a Lab Homogenizer

How to Emulsify Small Samples With a Lab Homogenizer The old saying “oil and water don’t mix” does not hold true all the time.  While it is true that oil and vinegar in the salad dressing cruet will separate on standing, homogenized milk holds the cream in suspension on the supermarket shelf and in your…

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How Laboratory Homogenizers Support Medical Research

A visit to laboratories devoted to the development of new pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical processing procedures gives an appreciation for the vast array of R&D equipment employed in new drug development. Among new drug development devices employed are sure to be found laboratory homogenizers  Lab homogenizers are the versatile benchtop tools that perform a wide variety…

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How to Operate a Laboratory Homogenizer

Operating a laboratory homogenizer may at first glance appear to be a relatively simple exercise.  What could be simpler?  Plug it in and start the mixing operation.  But hold on for a moment.  You have a relatively costly instrument in your hand that is designed to accomplish a variety of mixing, stirring, emulsifying and dispersing…

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Homogenizer Generator Specification Tips

These homogenizer generator specification tips are presented to help you make the right decision based on your particular requirements.  Homogenizer generators, also called generator probes, come in the variety of sizes and configurations necessary to accomplish laboratory and pilot plant tasks such as cell disruption, emulsifying, dispersion, dissolving and mixing.  As with any laboratory function…

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How to Choose a General Purpose Lab Homogenizer

Choosing a general purpose lab homogenizer starts with a clear understanding of what materials you work with and what you intend to accomplish.  For example, laboratory homogenizers find wide application in pharmaceutical manufacturing –  specifically R&D and pilot plant applications developing processes for food and food ingredient manufacturing formulating cosmetics and perfumes researching new chemicals…

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Flow-through Chamber Accessory for a Lab Homogenizer

Lab homogenizers are often the instruments of choice when developing pilot-plant procedures to be scaled up to production line operations. Typically laboratory homogenizers are suspended over beakers or flasks containing samples to be processed by being drawn into the homogenizer generator for mixing, dispersing, emulsifying and similar treatment. Researchers can greatly extend the utility of…

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