Thin-film and Short-path Evaporation
Short-path Evaporator
Short-path Evaporator
GKT short-path evaporators are used for the gentle distillation and purification of sensitive media under high vacuum. Typical applications include viscous products, fatty acids, flavor compounds, extracts, vitamins, and oils. The short-path evaporator can achieve an extremely fine vacuum for distillation at pressures as low as 0.001 mbar absolute.
Short-path Evaporator
How it works
The basic functionality of our thin-film evaporators can also be found in our short-path evaporators.
The difference is a condenser integrated into the device. This principle keeps the vapor path to the condenser particularly short, minimizes pressure losses, and enables operation in fine and high vacuums.
Advantages
- Particularly gentle evaporation due to fine vacuum
- High boilers do not reach the condenser thanks to efficient droplet separators
- For the distillative purification of many challenging substances that cannot be separated using conventional thermal processes
Applications
- Distillation of viscous media at low process pressure (0.001 to 1 mbara)
- Production of fatty acids, derivatives and semi-volatile flavorings
- Separation of extracts
- Distillation of vitamins, oils and biodiesel
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