Rotary Evaporator

Laboratories carry out a wide variety of tests, experiments and endless chemical, medical and biological procedures; this characteristic of the laboratories makes the use of certain equipment to facilitate the activities carried out; one of these equipment is rotary evaporators; which are used in different areas and institutions such as: chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, laboratories and hospital sector; they are also used in the manufacture and analysis of experiments to concentrate, dry and recycle. 

Rotavapor is designed to evaporate organic or aqueous solvents; these equipment have a sample rotation system, revolution control and a thermoregulated bath to keep the sample at a controlled temperature; these characteristics of the apparatus make it indispensable in laboratories to be able to handle certain samples and to extract from them important aspects such as solute separation, extract flavorings from the samples, separate low boiling solvent.

Rotavaporators are certainly used for the process of removing organic solvent that occurs in a sample or the liquid-liquid extraction of a test; although there are several types of rotary evaporators, they all serve the same purpose, only some are better for certain applications; and although for these functions we can use a simple distillation equipment; with the rotary evaporator it is much more efficient and faster.

When rotavapor it is possible to attach a vacuum system that reduces pressure, another advantage is that it has a rotation system, which when rotated shows, the contact area is larger so evaporation is faster; if we want to list the reasons why rotary evaporation is essential in the laboratory, it has a controlled heating system that makes the process more efficient; so we can establish the importance of rotavapor compared to other equipment for distilling and heating samples; and perform the applications for which the rotary evaporator is used.