Workflow Benefits with Avanti Series of High Performance Centrifuges from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

The Avanti Series of high performance centrifuges from Beckman Coulter Life Sciences improve workflow by delivering high throughput performance and an expanding and increasingly varied separations capability. This ranges from high efficiency, high volume separations using fixed angle rotors to high force zonal separations with swinging bucket rotors. 

The company has capitalised on its unique expertise in ultracentrifugation, by incorporating features from its top of the line Optima X Series into both the new Avanti JXN-30 and the Avanti JXN-26.

Biosafety* Features

The Avanti Series of high performance centrifuges offer customers numerous energy savings and environmental advantages. A Friction Reduction System (FRS) enables them to run more quietly, increasing energy efficiency by reducing the air in the chamber. This in turn reduces rotor friction, minimizing the effort required to accelerate and to maintain speed. The FRS also lowers the amount of heat present in the chamber, reducing refrigeration system usage.  For example, the new Avanti JXN-30 can spin at over 100,000 x g while maintaining a 4ºC temperature in the chamber.

Randy Pawlovich, Director of Product Management, Centrifugation, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, explained:  “Academic researchers are able to benefit from the performance and versatility they would expect from ultracentrifuge technology, including high spin speeds, multi-language GUI, excellent data management, and networking.  

“In addition, researchers are increasingly looking to data management technology to help them manage their workloads.  This is particularly important in a shared laboratory where it is necessary to be able to account for costs, use of resources and supplies.”

Suitable for Shared Environments
The inclusion of the MobileFuge remote application in Avanti JXN and Optima X series centrifuges makes it possible to communicate with a research lab’s central network, further enhancing their suitability for shared lab environments. The application enables scientists to monitor up to 16 instruments from anywhere they have an internet connection and either an Apple iOS or Android device.  Currently, Beckman Coulter is the only centrifuge company which offers this level of network connectivity.  

Once Optima XPN and Avanti JXN Series instruments are configured so that they are always connected to the lab’s IT network, monitoring multiple instruments becomes easy. Scientists can then access instrument data, so they can carry out remote monitoring and control and error handling via the central network.

Avanti Rotors

Avanti JXN-26 provides application versatility, with wide rotor compatibility and capacities to 6 L, speeds to 26,000 rpm and rcf up to 81,700 x g.  The JXN-26 rotor library is comprised of 26 options. Avanti JXN Series centrifuges have redundant, built-in safety features to ensure that no individual rotor exceeds the maximum speed permitted. A lower work surface makes rotor handling easier with a foot pedal for hands-free lid opening. Large footpads allow the unit to be used unanchored. Interface options enable users to customize the touchscreen with pictures, backgrounds, avatars and sounds. An optional pharmaceutical grade sterilising filter system, located on the unit exterior for ease of access, also enhances biosafety. Avanti JXN Series rotors range in capacity from 360 mL to 6 L, and some are independently certified to contain liquids and aerosols.   

BioCertified** fixed-angle and swinging-bucket rotors offer a range of biosafety options including a BioCertified dual-locking lid configuration for workflows that include biohazardous samples. This maintains biocontainment when removing and transporting the rotor to a containment hood. Recycled resin is incorporated in the outer panelling of the Avanti High Performance Centrifuges, and each instrument contains up to 3.4kg of recycled PET bottles. 

*BioSafety is a term intended to describe the enhanced biocontainment features of our products.

**BioCertified is a term used to describe our products which have been tested and validated to demonstrate containment of microbiological aerosols by an independent, third-party facility (Health Protection Agency, Porton Down, UK or USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, MD, USA). Improper use or maintenance may affect seal integrity.

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