Posts Tagged ‘lab homogenizers’
How to Maintain Lab Homogenizer Shaft Bearings
Keeping laboratory and pilot plant homogenizers in proper operating order requires special to critical components located out of sight within the homogenizer shaft tube. These are the homogenizer shaft bearings that keep the rotor shaft centered in the tube. While homogenizer shaft bearings and other components are in the tube they are fully exposed to…
Read MoreHow to Homogenize Vegetable Glycerin for E-Juice
This short video provides dramatic proof of the effect of temperature on the ability to homogenize vegetable glycerin for E-Juice. In it I demonstrate how glycerin at room temperature simply cannot be homogenized no matter how fast the homogenizer drive unit rotates. But after heating the glycerin to 60⁰C (140⁰F) it readily homogenizes in the…
Read MoreVideo: Preheating before homogenizing
Bob Wilcox talks about the importance of preheating vegetable glycerin before homogenizing, and demonstrates the difference.
Read MoreVideo: Homogenizer Cleaning
How to Clean Lab Homogenizer Dispersing Tools
Read MoreUsing Lab Homogenizers for Medical Research
Lab homogenizers offered by CAT Scientific play an important role in medical research and the development of new pharmaceuticals. Controllable-speed scientific homogenizers are used to emulsify, disperse, mix and otherwise process various substances including liquids such as emulsions, slurries, and pastes as well as more abrasive media such as powders using the homogenizer generator. The…
Read MoreA Brief on Lab Homogenizer Applications
The term “homogenizing” covers a variety of processes that simply defined means blending materials that may or may not be compatible. A common example is homogenized milk. It is homogenized to provide even consistency by dispersing the heavier cream into the more liquid milk to and prevent separation during storage. A much broader definition relates…
Read MoreHow to Use Lab Homogenizers
As with all precision scientific equipment, laboratory homogenizers have advantages and limitations. Many of the questions we get at CAT Scientific come down to the improper use of lab homogenizers or misconceptions of what they do and what they should not be expected to do. For that matter, we could have titled this post “How…
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