How useful is this Thermo Neslab m150 chiller? Can it be upgraded to replace icing down tanks and freezing columns?
Ill rate it for indoor laboratory use only.
Like running a small SPD set up? Paid 500 they’re around 4k online.
No not good for spd but
Very good for rotavap
Chiller for SPD?
to run your condenser at 130C+?
According to the specs, it’ll get down to -15c @60 psi and cycle 2gpm. I just started running a CLS a year ago and have been able to launch a relatively successful extract brand. Which has been inspiring me to learn the craft as diligently as I can while still producing. What I lack in knowledge I also lack in ego. I’m just trying to make the best of handme downs and learn as I go. I’ve got a 20L roto vap and most of a crude SPD set up neither witch I’m ashamed to admit I Don’t know how to use yet and was just curios if it would be serviceable there. I was originally hoping it would be enough to chill a jacketed solvent tank to get me out of trucking ice around.
You also want to know how many watts of cooling at -15 or whatever your target temp is.
As @Roguelab said, it should do a decent job on your rotovap, and will certainly substitute for and ice/water bath on a smaller cls.
Most are aiming for much lower temps on their cls.
Edit: the “chiller for SPD?” Is not solely aimed at you. It is a common misconception. If 1/2 dozen others are also disabused of the notion, does that help? I agree I could have pickEd different words.
Perfect, I can work with that and its 5054w@-15c. So after my pump to the tank I have two coils in ice baths if I were to procure a 100lb jacketed ss, tank this should be sufficient to chill it lower than 34f?
Huh?? lower than 34F
That is a very tough temp for a singel stage cooling unit
Depends on the gas it runs on