Hi! I'm Rich with New Life Scientific and today you can see I have a really nice Microfluidizer processor. It's the M700 series. This one is actually an M7125 and what that means is that it only has one cylinder in it. It has 25 horsepower but it is also a 30,000PSI machine so it can produce the higher pressures even beyond up to 40,000PSI.
I'm going to just start over here with the control panel and I'm going to just work my way back and kind of go over some things with this one. As you can see it's a super clean machine. This is a high voltage machine and we have the power hooked up here right now ready to turn it on and give a demonstration. Just has the kill switch over here. Has high voltage running in and then comes down and feeds the starter and then the soft starter here and it has a transformer in it.
Pretty simple machine. Some fuses. So this one is actually fairly simple to run. It does have a push test button here. When you turn the power on just to make sure you have power there. Now on this end here, we do have the explosion proof tubing that conceals everything so that nothing is going to create any sparks. Down here, you can see all the hookups for your water cooling. The two big hoses here you can see are your main oil reservoir cooling. This one right here is your quench fluid that's cooling your actual pump head. And then down here we have a pan drain which drains the inside of any spills. We do have the air. Because this is all pneumatically driven as far as all your switches which is nice. Again because of having it, explosion proof pneumatic switches are a lot better rather than having any chances of sparks with electronics.
And then we have over here your process control and this just turns your pressures up and down and pretty much for every 1,000PSI you have in hydraulic pressure that will create about 10,000PSI in the actual pump so at 1,000PSI you get about 10,000PSI. And of course 2,000PSI you get 20,000PSI and then 3,000PSI you get about 30,000PSI which I'll demonstrate here in a little bit.
This is your pneumatic switch. This is what engages the actual pump after you turn the motor on.
This is your air pressure gauge just letting you know that you got your air pressure that we showed a little bit ago down there.
This right here is your prime release. Usually you don't need to use it. I haven't had to use it. It primes really well especially when we put the air pump on it to pump the fluids in it. Right here you can tell we do have some pressure on the fluids and that pressure is created by the stainless steel food-grade air pump. The diaphragm pump down here. Essentially we've got this set up right now. We'll come around here you can see all the plumbing.
Right now we just have a big draw tube here coming into the bottom of our diaphragm pump and it's pumping out alcohol, bringing it up through this strainer which has I believe a 200 micron filter in it right now. Then pumps on up here and then just drop. Comes over here. Have the pressure gauge and then drops down into your pumping cavity inside there.
Over here you can see the product outlets coming out and then it comes up to a valve here where you can actually switch but right now we've got it feeding into both sides of these heat exchangers. So we have dual heat exchangers coming up in. Then we also have it feeding back down and then out this tube here right now I've just got it going right back into our 5 gallon container there. You can also see the chiller hookups here that go into the heat exchangers. You got the in and you got the out.
The previous customer had their thermocouples hooked up on the chiller inlet and outlet to monitor that temperature and that's what's actually being monitored up there on the digital readout at this point right now. These can be moved and put anywhere.
So when you wanted monitor the actual product here, you could hook them up and hook your thermocouples up more in that area. But it is set up. Ready to hook your chiller up on here. And like we did you can just simply hook up to your product and just start pulling product in and its turn key. There's nothing you really need except some chillers or if you have a central chilling system in your facility. That would make it nice to go that route also. It has very little use for the age of it. The stroke counter I believe was at *118,000 (about 40-80 hours of use).
We're going to go inside here now.
And here you can see we have your main interaction chamber right here and it's a diamond F12Y-5 which means it has five channels. It is rated at 40,000PSI so if you do need that amount of pressure. And then the auxiliary is the T60Z which is real common for your auxiliary module. Basically you have your cylinder back here.
Your hydraulic cylinder pushing your pump cylinder creating the high pressures in the pump head here. And you have two check valves. One when you're sucking in, it doesn't suck it back up but creates a check here and it creates a check there on the high pressure side. So then you get a consistent flow. And we got our pressure gauge here. And then it just comes around and runs through your modules here and back out.
A really nice clean out with a drain in here so you can just clean everything up and not have to worry about spills that way. Like I said, very very nice condition.
We're going to go ahead and turn this thing on and you can kind of watch it here. We'll power it up on this explosion proof switch here. We got to turn the power on over here first and we can power it up there. Now the motor is starting up. You can hear the motor running but until we push the air actuator on to get the hydraulics to actually running. So it's just simply pushing the button and instantly you can see we're running at 2,000PSI. So up here we're running at 20,000PSI on our product and like I said, the hydraulics is about 10x.
Machine runs somewhat quiet. No really odd noises going on. Just a nice consistent run at 20,000PSI. I'm going to go ahead and adjust the process control on up and it will get louder, obviously. We're running about 30,000PSI there. And we are maxing out our switch. It's only really at 30,000PSI. So just your typical normal operation.
It’s a stand alone. Once you have all the chillers hooked up. Once you have your products ready to go this thing just sit here and run as long as you need it to.
We're here for anything you might need. If you need any plumbing change. If you need anything different as far as auxiliary or even the interaction chambers, we have a source for that too where we can plum that in and have it all ready for you. If you have any special needs on your inlet plumbing, we can also assist in that and we can also set this machine up for you if you need it. We’re very familiar with Microfluidics instruments. We have up I think three of these units and we also have quite a few other benchtop and floor models available.
If you have any questions on this machine or any other machines we carry or any Microfluidics in general, about the auxiliary, or the interaction chambers get a hold of us here at New Life Scientific (www.newlifescientific.com) and thank you for watching.
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