Distillation

Distillation is an extremely common analytical method for the purification or isolation of certain components from their source material. C Gerhardt provide a wide range of distillation apparatus for most applications. The traditional distillation equipment is a slow gentle means of isolating a material for further analysis or measurement without dilution by heating the sample directly and condensing the required portion of the sample into a separate container. This can vary greatly from 20 minutes to hours for each sample. More modern rapid methods use steam as the heat source. The only problem with this method for some applications is the fact that the steam condenses as well as the required substrate and dilutes it. If water does not interfere with the final analysis or the dilution can be included in the analysis then distillation using steam can speed the analysis to around 3 to 4 minutes for most applications.

C. Gerhardt manufacture the Vapodest steam generating rapid distillation equipment as well as the traditional heating equipment. The Vapodest has been successfully used on a wide variety of distillation applications including, Kjeldahl protein, Ammonia, Total Volatile Nitrogen (TVN), Nitrates, Alcohol, cyanide, sulphide, sulphur dioxide, phenols, Propionic acid, formaldehyde, sorbic acid, volatile acidity in wines and pickles, Vicinal diketones (VDK) in beer hydroxyprolines, fluoride. A wide variety of units are available with varying degrees of automation to suit the customers specific requirements.

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