INTRODUCTION
TEK-VAC's glovebox and gas purifier equipment offers a very competitively priced system to provide the user with an inert environment for purposes such as handling and storage of materials. Chemistries included are those specifically which are highly reactive with the ambient contaminants oxygen and water vapor. Examples are use of oxidizing prone inorganics and for organometallic synthesis.
The glovebox purification process is accomplished by continuously recirculating gases from the central glovebox chamber into our cleansing apparatus. Recirculation assures the user that contamination from sources such as impure inert gases and from the inserted materials are continuously removed. Oxygen removal is accomplished by a copper catalytic conversion. Water vapor is removed via a molecular sieve.
The charging process involves purging the copper catalyst and the molecular sieve with hydrogen or carbon monoxide gas in a thermally elevated environment.
The vacuum loadlock permits rapid transport of materials from the outside into the inert atmosphere work area. Options of preheating samples during pump-down are available.
TEK-VAC offers three different sized models constructed of high quality type 304 stainless steel. All models include capabilities of reaching magnitudes of 1 ppm of oxygen and water vapor. Our glovebox products also have the optional set up for controlled usage in high vacuum situations.
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