CAL3K Air Cooler
The new Air Cooler replaces the traditional expensive water cooler used with the CAL3K range of calorimeters. It uses less resources, including no water and less electricity, to operate. The air cooler works with the ambient air to cool the vessel down, ready for the next determination. Best of all, the air cooler is extremely fast, affordable and efficient.
This is possible because of the CAL3K vessel, with linear temperature sensing, allowing higher vessel temperatures. The air cooler can cool a vessel in approximately 6 to 8 minutes to its set target of 9°C above ambient temperature. In other words, in a laboratory with 25°C ambient temperature a warm vessel of 44°C is cooled to 34°C in 8 minutes. The power consumption of the cooler is extremely low and efficient making for an environmentally friendly and space conscious solution.
To speed up the cooling, an affordable second cooler can be used. The cooling process takes the longest time, so simply connect two coolers together to halve the cooling time in a multi vessel calorimeter system.
CAL3K AIR COOLER
The new Air Cooler replaces the traditional expensive water cooler used with the CAL2K range of calorimeters. It uses less resources, including no water and less electricity, to operate. The air cooler works with the ambient air to cool the vessel down, ready for the next determination. Best of all, the air cooler is extremely fast and efficient and affordable.
This is possible because of the CAL3K vessel, with linear temperature sensing, allowing higher vessel temperatures. The air cooler can cool a vessel in approximately 6 minutes from 14°C to 4°C above ambient temperature. In other words, in a laboratory with 25°C ambient temperature a warm vessel of 39°C is cooled to 29°C in 6 minutes.
The air cooler is what is says. It needs no water, piping or other resources. However, it has a much more defined operating characteristic - it does not work at room temperature or below. Or, in other words : it works best when the vessel is warmer than the ambient temperature (room temperature).
Because of this, the vessel temperature cycles between 38-48°C in a production environment, and between 28-38°C for slower users. The air cooler has some intelligence built into it, and indicates the bomb temperature and when the vessel is ready to remove.
The cooling performance depends on the ambient temperature. The temperature rise of 0.5g Benzoic Acid is approximately 10°C. If one assumes an ambient temperature of 25°C and a cooling time of 6 minutes, then the cooler will operate between 35-45°C. This works well with the determination speed of the machine. With three bombs and two coolers a fast timing is possible.
In difference to the older CAL2K Cooler: The air cooler is slower than the CAL3K. This can be compensated by the purchase of more coolers.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Small Footprint | Reduced carbon footprint. No water required. Lower Power Consumption. |
| Bayonet & Thread-Type Vessel | Accepts the CAL3K Oxygen Bayonet & Thread-Type Vessels - Automatic Filling Vessel and Manual Filling Vessel. |
| No Water Required | The air cooler uses air, which means no water and no spillage. |
| Monitoring | Monitors the cooling operation. |
| Near Silent Operation | Reduced noise makes the air cooler near silent. |
| Prompts User | Indicates when the vessel is ready for the next determination. |
| Low Power Consumption | Low energy consumption, approximately 10W while cooling. |
| Checks Statistics | Checks vessel statistics and operation. |
| *The Air Cooler can be used with any of the CAL3K Oxygen Bomb Calorimeter Systems, including the CAL3K-A, CAL3K-AP, and CAL3K-F Systems. |
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