LUMifuge®

The only direct and accelerated stability analysis

Up to 8 samples simultaneously

 

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Exceptional possibilities

THE LUMiFuge® MASTERS THESE KINDS OF ANALYSES

  • Direct accelerated stability testing
  • Comparative & predictive shelf-life analysis
  • Surfactant efficiency
  • Destabilization phenomena
  • Phase separation
  • Solidosity
  • Clarification
  • Dewaterability, consolidation  
  • Segregation
  • Creaming rate
  • Sedimentation rate  
  • Magnetization
  • Emulsifier efficiency
  • Instability index

Measure up to 8 samples simultaneously

Physical stability - compare and predict

Deliver fast and direct stability measurements

Compare and predict shelf life

Analyse magnetic particles

Work with high sample concentrations and a wide range of temperatures

Flocculant and demulsifier selection

Needs no material constants

Immediately see and understand your complete sample top to bottom

Optimize your dispersion

Measure and differentiate various degrees of destabilization phenomena

Use disposable cells

Quick and easy to use

LUMiFuge® – Fast and direct stability measurements

Eight samples simultaneously thanks to special powerful LED elements

The LUMiFuge is an analytical centrifuge that measures instantaneously the extinction of transmitted light across the full length of your sample using the STEP-Technology®. It is the only instrument in the world that enables you to perform physically accelerated, direct and efficient stability testing and ranking of your formulations.

It features an advanced optical system enabling multi-sample analysis at user defined speeds, light intensities and temperatures. The optical blocks consist of high-powered special light sources of different wavelengths.

The parallel light illuminates the whole sample from top to bottom. Even the smallest changes across the entire sample height are detected by a sensor featuring high optical and spatial resolution. Immediate data collection ensures the ability to measure everything that occurs in your sample; no matter how simple or complex.

There is no need to dilute or to know any material constants; just input your samples and you have your results.

By looking at the fingerprint patterns of the whole sample, you can classify and understand the causes of instability, e. g. creaming, sedimentation or flocculation, as well as measure and rank stability.

Use this knowledge to develop new formulations and optimize current ones easily.

You can analyse up to eight different samples simultaneously in a wide range of viscosities and virtually any concentrations at operator preset temperatures (+/- 0.5 K).

A truly one-of-a-kind feature also allows you to measure the separation behaviour and magnetic properties of micro- and nano particles in variable superimposed orthogonal or parallel magnetic fields in addition to the conventional sedimentation field.

This provides you with the unique opportunity to analyse magnetic nano- and microparticles.


Comes with state-of-the-art software SEPView.

The LUMiFuge comes certified, factory pre-calibrated and is ready-to-go.

 

International norms and guidelines

THE LUMiFuge® MEETS THE FOLLOWING STANDARDS

ASTM STP1527

CFR 21 Part 11

GB/T 41316

ISO 18747-1

ISO/TR 13097

ISO/TR 18811

Grafik Karriere

MATERIAL OVERVIEW

The following materials can be analyzed with the LUMiFuge®

Abrasives
Beverages
Carbon black
Carbon nanotubes
Ceramics
Color pastes
Cosmetics & personal care
Fine chemicals
Foams
  Fuel cells
Graphenes
Inks
Nano-dispersions
Pharmaceuticals
Polymers
Slurries
Wastewater
and many more materials...

 

Download & Technical Data

Technical Data LUMiFuge®

Accelerated phase separation          6–2300 times compared to gravity
Consolidation measurements concentrated dispersions and sediments
Observation time 1 s to 99 h
Conformity

ASTM STP1527; CFR 21 Part 11; GB/T 41316; ISO 18747-1; ISO/TR 13097; ISO/TR 18811

Samples suspensions, emulsions, suspo-emulsions, sludges, slurries
Channels up to 8 simultaneously
Volume 0.05 ml to 2.0 ml
Concentration 0,00015 Vol % - 90 Vol %
Density up to 22 g/cm³
Viscosity 0.8–108 mPas
Light source NIR, special versions
Temperature control 4 °C to 60 °C, +/– 1K
Cells different material and optical path
Dimensions (WxHxD), weight 37 cm x 27 cm x 60 cm, 40 kg
Power supply 100 V, 230 V; 50/60Hz
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