Labtech – MVP – Vacuum Concentrator

Innovation of the Year
for a product or service

The new MVP – Vacuum Concentrators represent a total revolution in the concentration workflow. MVP Vacuum Concentrators achieve high-throughput automatic evaporation of liquid samples through vacuum, heating, and rotation. They improve work efficiency and sample recovery, reduce human errors and enhance the accuracy of analysis. Thanks to their configuration and their unique design, they allow to handle multiple samples simultaneously. 

Vacuum concentration is a common technique used in laboratories to remove solvent from a solution, effectively concentrating the solute (the dissolved material). It works by exploiting the relationship between pressure and boiling point, namely lower pressure, lower boiling point. When you reduce the pressure in a container, the boiling point of any liquid inside also decreases. Among its benefits, we find therefore a faster evaporation but also the fact that conducting the process at lower temperatures helps protecting heat-sensitive components in the sample. Among all these advantages, LabTech MVP Vacuum Concentrators grant also the possibility of solvents recovery, offering therefore an environmentally friendly solution for your lab.

The MVP system includes 3 different models that satisfy multiple needs:

Flex-MVP
The Flex-MVP is a particularly flexible model, suitable for thermosensitive samples. Thanks to its high solvent recovery rate, it allows to reduce the emissions of solvent, proving to be an environmentally friendly concentrator. The Flex-MVP also boasts energy-saving capabilities alongside its main functionalities.

Features and Advantages:

• Super batch processing capability: 16 sample positions, compatible with 200ml and 50ml vials
• Fully surrounded heating with high evaporation efficiency: the whole sample vial is fully immersed and heated in the water bath
• Safe and simple operation: it features a convenient snap-lock safety lock design
• Flexible and free access at any time: no need to pause the instrument or pressure relief for all the samples as a single sample can be added and removed at any time
• Full transparency: the evaporation chamber is designed with full transparency, providing strong visibility.
• Independent pipeline to prevent cross contamination: each sample vessel is sealed and discharged independently through its own pipeline, avoiding liquid transfer issues
• User-friendly touch screen control: designed with a 10’’ touch screen control system
• Dual recovery of solvent vapor and exhaust gas: dual-condenser tower design, enabling dual recovery of solvent vapor and exhaust gas
• Shaking bath system: it allows to speed up the evaporation rate. The sample is continuously mixed, preventing the overheating
• Exchange top cover system: the MVP Series can use 2 different models of top cover, known as Flex-MVP and MVP-48, making the system more flexible

MVP-12
The MVP-12 is specially produced for large volume needs. For this reason, it is suitable for extraction applications. Designed for high throughput, this instrument replaces up to 12 rotary evaporators, saving valuable lab space and resources.
Features and Advantages:
•    Up to 12 samples with max. 900ml each, can be concentrated simultaneously
•    High efficiency: fully surrounded water bath heating with higher evaporation efficiency
•    High solvent recovery: solvent recovery rate of 500ml petroleum ether is more than 85%
•    Easy operation: safety lock design enables fast open/close of the cover, more convenient and safer

MVP-48
The MVP-48 grants a larger capacity, thanks to its 48 positions. The possibility to work with centrifuge tubes allows an easier workflow in the laboratories.
Features and Advantages:

• Up to 48 samples (60ml vials or 50ml centrifuge tubes) can be concentrated simultaneously.
• High efficiency: fully surrounded water bath heating with higher evaporation efficiency
• High solvent recovery: solvent recovery rate of 500ml petroleum ether is more than 85%
• Easy operation: safety lock design enables fast open/close of the cover, more convenient and safer

Key applications:

• Food: Pesticide residues, additives in food, determination of acid in food and extraction
• Pharma: Determination of API, extraction, contaminants and residues
• Environment: SVOC pollutants in soil, solid waste and atmospheric samples, such as organochlorine residues, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
• Chemical: QC of plastics, petrochemical, oil, fats and textile