SIM ICE-DOOR

Now you can carry out chromatographic separations, which need a start temperature between 0°C and 30°C, simply and comfortably with the SIM ICE-DOOR. The cooling of the GC oven room will be achieved with a compressor cooler, so that you can relinquish the cooling with liquid cooling agents like CO₂ or N₂, which are effortful in the handling and to which various safety aspects must be taken into account.

The maintenance-free ICE-DOOR consists of a cooling element which is inside the door of the GC oven, as well as the SIM multi cooling device with a compressor cooler. Hereby temperatures to 0°C can be reached in the oven room. This is important for special applications e.g. in the gas-analytics or for volatile analytes, because the chromatographic resolution can be improved at lower temperatures. The use of the ICE-DOOR also offers one's services for separations with start temperatures above the normal room temperature, because the equilibration time until the start temperature is reached, can be shortened.

The SIM ICE-DOOR is available for Agilent and Shimadzu GC's at present, and for other GC in the future, there will be also customizations. The cooling also can be integrated into existing systems since merely the GC door is modified. Instead of the stockpiling with liquid coolants merely a power connection is needed for the multi cooling device.

This new oven cooling system was developed in a cooperation project between SIM Scientific Instruments Manufacturer GmbH (SIM) and the institute for energy and environmental technology e.v. (IUTA) (promoted by: Federal Ministry of economy and technology due to a decision of the German Bundestag). Further information about the ICE-DOOR as well as the development of the oven cooling system is described in the articles of Labor Praxis "Oven cooling for GC-Systems" and "Development of a flexible oven cooling system for GC systems".

SIM COOL-CUBE ICE-DOOR.pdf