Tapped Density Tester

Application:

Tapped Density Tester provides a standardized and repeatable procedure for measuring the tapped or packed volumes of powders, as well as granulated or flaked materials. The tester is equipped as standard with a 250ml glass graduated cylinders and holders. The test parameter is a fixed drop of 3mm, at 250 drops/min to comply with the relevant pharmacopeia.

Flow ability Tester

Application:

Flow ability tester is used for measuring the Flow properties of powders using standard orifice diameters. flow ability of powder can be judged according to the following:

  • Diameter of the smallest orifice that passes the powder successfully.
  • The rate of powder flow.
  • Time in which a known sample weight passes the orifice.

The flow ability tester is equipped with the Angle of repose attachment.

Shaker Vibratory Sieve

Application:

The analytical sieve shaker is used for practical size analysis. Due to the presence of 14 USP standard sieves (45µm – 4mm), it has many applications in research and quality control of raw materials. it is suitable for both dry and wet sieving of free-flowing, dispersed products where the input product exhibits grain size of up to maximum of 25 mm.

V-Shape  Mixer

Application:

The V-shaped mixer is used to perform blending studies on different powders. Due to its capacity (0.5Kg), the V-shaped mixer can determine the preliminary mixing conditions as blending speed and blending time for pilot batches. Also, the V-shaped mixer may be used in validation of mixing parameters of powders.

Wet Granulator 

Application:

The main application of the Wet granulator is the conversion of the wet mass-produced during powder granulation into granules of uniform size distribution. The presence of more than one mesh size (710µm, 1mm and 1.4mm) enables the user to obtain the desired granules size distribution.

Dry Granulator

Application:

The Dry granulator is used to crush slugs and chilsonator sheets into granules for further processing.

Pelletizer

Application:

The pelletizer is used for the production of pharmaceutical pellets. The material to be processed is fed manually or with a metering device, the machine rotates in a clocking wise direction with a speed range of (0 to 410 RPM). A minimum of 0.5Kg is required for work.

Tablet Coating pan

Application:
-This apparatus is used in all types of coatings including film coating, sugar coating and enteric coating.
-Being non-perforated, the pan is suitable for coating different dosage forms such as granules, pellets tablets and capsules.
-It is equipped with an IR lamp to facilitate core drying and it is suitable for coating small quantities by controlling the pan speed and drying conditions.

Tablet Friability Abrasion Tester

Application:

Copley Friability Abrasion tester is used to determine the friability and abrasion of tablets. This test is important to determine the durability of tablets to further processing steps (e.g. coating and blistering). The apparatus is rotated at a fixed speed of 25rpm. The researcher can adjust the time or number of rotations according to his needs.

Tablet Hardness Tester

Application:

The hardness tester is used to test the tablet hardness. The force required to break the tablets can be measured in Newton, Kilopond, Strong Cobs or Pounds Apothecary.

Disintegration Tester

Application:

The Disintegration tester is used for the determination of the disintegration time of uncoated tablets, coated tablets, pills, capsules, granules or enteric coated preparations according to the experimental conditions prescribed in the European and United states pharmacopoeia. However, it is not applied for preparations exceeding 20 mm in diameter, for sustained release preparations, or for preparations which are subject to the dissolution test.

Dissolution Tester

Application:

  • More than one USP official apparatus are available:
    • USP Apparatus 1 (basket) and USP Apparatus 2 (paddle), known to be the mostly used in most of the official dissolution apparatus in many pharmacopoeia.
    • USP Apparatus 5, used to study the release from transdermal patches.
  • Specifically designed suppository baskets are available to study drug release from suppositories.
  • Small samples dissolution set is available for dissolution medium volume ranging from 50 – 150mL.
  • Drug release and diffusion studies from semi-solid preparations such as creams, ointments and gels can be performed using the ointment cell attachment.

Suppository Disintegration Tester

Application:

The suppository disintegration tester can be used to determine the disintegration time of the suppository. It can also be used, under defined conditions, to determine the softening point of the suppository.

Projection Microscope 

Application:

Projection microscope is equipped with a camera and software to allow capturing images of the sample under test directly on the computer. It is of special importance during studying histology of biological tissues.

Projection Microscope is also equipped with a screen and ruler for measuring the dimensions of the projected sample. This feature makes the projection microscope valuable in particle size analysis studies.

Rotational Viscometer

Application:

  • It is mainly used for viscosity determination of solutions, tooth pastes, creams, ointments, gums, inks, oils and dairy products with a wide viscosity range of 100 – 40 million Centipoises using different spindles (RV-2 – RV-7).
  • For limited sample volumes (2 – 16mL), a small adaptor equipped with spindle CS4-15 allowing viscosity readings (250-5 million Centipoises) is available.
  • For low viscosity materials (Newtonian and non-Newtonian), an UL adaptor is provided with a cylindrical spindle allowing readings of 3 – 2,000 Centipoise.
  • For paste-like materials and those exhibiting pseudo plastic and thixotropic behaviors, a spiral adaptor is available with 2 spindles measuring viscosities up to 1.1 million Centipoises.

Homogenizer

Application:

IKA homogenizer is a variable speed homogenizer in the range of 3,500 – 24,000 rpm. It can be used for:

  • Homogenizing cell tissues.
  • Emulsifying internal immiscible phases (preparing creams, micro emulsions etc.).

Refining suspended solids (preparing suspensions, ointments, etc.).

Overhead Stirrer

Application:

Overhead stirrer is used for mixing and stirring mixtures or solvents, gels and suspensions, with a stirring speed in the range of 50 - 3,000rpm. A minimum sample volume of 250mL is required.

Infrared Moisture Balance

Application:

The infrared moisture balance determines the moisture and solid component content (%) of samples by using infrared light to heat and dry samples and then measuring the weight change due to evaporation. Samples of any weight between 5 to 70 gm are allowed and the ease of use makes it possible for anyone to make accurate measurements.

Sartorius Balance

Application:

Due to its sensitivity (readability 0.0001gm), the balance can be used to weigh accurately very small amounts of powders and therefore it is of special benefit to researchers and analysts.

  Digital Shaking Water Bath

Application:

The shaking water bath is useful for various kinds of laboratory work such as chemistry, medical sciences, pharmacology, etc.. The apparatus is used to heat samples up to a temperature of 100°C.  An electronically controlled shaking mechanism (20-250 strokes/min) allows the user to shake the samples under controlled uniform conditions.

PH meter

Application :

Used for measuring the ph of solution.

Hotplate & Magnetic stirrer

 

 

Application :

Used for heating under stirring.

 

  Hot Air Oven

Refractrometer

Application:

Refract meter is a device used mainly for measuring refractive index.

Rotary Vacuum evaporator

Application:

used for concentration, crystallization, drying, separation, and solvent recovery in addition to the continuous distillation of volatile solvents

Polari meter

Application:

Polari meter is used for measuring change of polarized light with optically active substances. It is used to evaluate the value of solution concentration especially substances such as sugar and volatile oils.

Microscope (Bi-Nocular) 

Application:

Microscope (Bi-Nocular) is a device used for observation of Key elements of powdered vegetable drugs for the aim of identification.

Kymograph

Application:

A kymograph (which means 'wave writer') is a device that gives a graphical representation of spatial position over time in which a spatial axis represents time. It basically consists of a revolving drum wrapped with a sheet of paper on which a stylus moves back and forth recording perceived changes in muscular contractions.

Laminar Air Flow

Application:

Laminar air flow cabinet is used to provide an environment that is free from micro- organisms with excellent and constant results.

Conductivity Meter

Application:

This apparatus is mainly used for   measuring the electrical conductivity in a solution and determination of the amount of salt in different kinds of water such as springs, tap water according to the calibrated methods for the apparatus.

Centrifugal Device

Application:

Separation of suspended matter in liquid at the bottom of tubes (12 tubes) at a rotation rate up to 3000 rpm.

Ultra-Violet Visible Spectrophotometer

Application:

The UV-1800 is an advanced high-resolution spectrophotometer used for analytical and quantization determination of different analysts.

The instrument could be used for photometric (uni. or multi wavelengths) spectrum, Quantization, and kinetic rates determinations.  It is also provided with multi-component quantization and bio-methods measurement options. Data processing could be achieved by Arithmetic or derivative operations. Peak detection and area calculation can also be done.

Power lap 4/30

Application:

The power lab is an integrated system used for determination of renal BP and arterial BP.
Force Transducer can be used for the determination of the force of contractions of various smooth muscle preparations.

HPLC

Application:

High Performance liquid Chromatography is the most widely used of all the analytical separation techniques. The reasons for the popularity of the method is its sensitivity , its ready adoptability to accurate quantitative determination , its suitability for separation of non volatile species , its widespread application in industry to many fields of science.

FT-IR

Application:

Fourier-Transform infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) is a technique used to obtain an infrared spectrum of absorption of a solid, liquid.

An FTIR spectroscopy simultaneously collects high-spectral range. This confers a significant advantage over a dispersive spectrometer, which measures intensity over a narrow range of wavelengths at a time.

Freeze Dryer

Application:

also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation, is a low temperature dehydration process[1] that involves freezing the product and lowering pressure, removing the ice by sublimation.[2] This is in contrast to dehydration by most conventional methods that evaporate water using heat

  1. Dairy industry.
  2. Research – Botanical samples.

Nutraceuticals.

Nano Zetasizer

Application:

The Zetasizer provides both exceptionally high performance and entry level systems that incorporate combinations of a particle size analyzer, zeta potential analyzer, molecular weight analyzer, protein mobility and microrheology measurements. Particles and molecules from less than a nanometer in size to several microns can be analyzed by a range of variants to suit your applications and budget.

Fluorescence Spectrophotometer

Application:

Fluorescence spectrometer is an investigative method based on the fluorescence properties of the sample under study, and is used for quantitative measurements of chemical products.

Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy (AFS) techniques are useful in other kinds of analysis/measurement of a compound present in air or water, or other media, such as CVAFS which is used for heavy metals detection, such as mercury.

Electro-Phoresis Mini-Protein Tetra Cell 

Application:

Mini-protein tetra cell is used to separate DNA or RNA fragments by size and reactivity. It runs both hand cast gels and ready gel interchangeably. The cell can run one or four gels. The Mini Trans-Blot cell provides rapid, high-quality blotting of two Mini-PROTEAN precast or hand cast gels.

Bench Cooling Centrifuge

Application:

The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, where the centripetal acceleration causes more dense substances to separate out along the radial direction. The cooling system employs forced air circulation through side and bottom cooling areas to provide a continuous laminar flow of cool air streams onto all portions of the rotor.

UV Lamp

Application:

Electromagnetic UV Lamp emits radiation used in Laboratory research and analysis.

GC-MS

Application:

Gas-Liquid chromatography is based on the partition of the analyst between a gaseous mobile phase and liquid immobilized on the surface of inert solid.

Gas-liquid chromatography has widespread use in all fields of science. It is used for performing separate of complex metal organic and biochemical systems made up of volatile species.

Refrigerated High speed centrifuge

Application:

The centrifuge works using the sedimentation principle, where the centripetal acceleration causes more dense substances to separate out along the radial direction. The cooling system employs forced air circulation through side and bottom cooling areas to provide a continuous laminar flow of cool air streams onto all portions of the rotor with extra high speeds.

-80 freezer

Application:

-80 freezer Is considered as one of the most essential equipment in several research centers.

-80 freezer is used to preserve and store Microorganisms, blood samples, Medicines and other chemicals.

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