Laboratory Products 39 Redesigned Texture Measurement and Analysis Microsite Launched


Mecmesin, a world leader in the design and manufacture of force and materials testing equipment, has launched a new microsite showcasing their range of texture measurement and analysis products.


Mecmesin has extensive experience in practical food texture measurement and provides texture analysis systems for fi eld, factory and laboratory test environments. The company offers of a wide range of instruments to measure attributes, which consumers experience in a sensory manner to judge product quality – primarily mouthfeel and touch.


The microsite is a resource for food technologists and quality control personnel and those in the research, development and educational fi elds seeking to apply a scientifi c approach to testing their products and ingredients.


The microsite provides visitors with an easy-to-navigate, simple structure in order to quickly locate points of interest. Visitors to the site can now locate information relevant to their industry, including test methods and case studies. This focus means food technologists and quality control personnel can easily assess how best to test their particular products and ingredients.


The main areas cover: texture analysers, fi xtures and accessories; industry-related applications (bakery, confectionery, dairy, fruit & vegetables,


gels & hydrocolloids, grains & snacks, meat & fi sh, plus sectors such as cosmetics, pet food & animal feed, pharmaceuticals and education and research); test methods (bulk analysis, compression, extrusion, penetration, shear, snap, bend and break and tension).


The microsite also implements responsive web design for an improved user experience that is equally accessible across mobile, tablet and desktop browsing devices.


Mecmesins’ Managing Director, John Page, commented: “This new microsite focuses on the needs of the food manufacturing and processing industry, offering customers fl exible and cost effective solutions to their texture measurement challenges.” More information online: ilmt.co/PL/ykB4


52501pr@reply-direct.com Sim Safer pler Parallel Reactor Improves Development of Novel Hydrogenation Catalysts


The Chianese Organometallic Chemistry group at Colgate University are using a custom designed Multicell Parallel High-Pressure Reactor from Asynt to conduct reproducible hydrogenation experiments in parallel, to rapidly determine the kinetic properties of their novel catalysts.


The research activities of the Chianese group focuses on the development of new transition metal complexes for catalysing the hydrogenation of polar compounds. To accelerate this process the group wanted a high-pressure reactor capable of conducting many hydrogenation reactions at once, with rigorous control of the initial concentrations and reaction temperature. They also needed the ability to take and analyse reaction aliquots over the time course of the reaction, which could then be used to for kinetic profi ling.


Associate Professor Anthony Chianese, head of the group, commented: “By working with the technical team at Asynt we were able to specify a custom version of their Multicell parallel high-pressure reactor that exactly fi tted our needs. Before we had the Multicell we were running several test tube reactions within a single batch reactor, meaning that we could only conduct analysis at the end and would often experience contamination between samples. The Multicell now allows us to run many reactions in parallel with no detectable crossover between the headspace of different cells. Importantly, because we can now analyse aliquots while the reactions are running, it is possible to rapidly determine reaction rates for any given catalytic hydrogenation. Often our organometallic catalysts are highly air sensitive, so it is great to be able to assemble our Multicell reactor inside a glovebox then bring it out to run the reactions. We also really like the fact that the whole unit is user-serviceable with all of the parts, aside from the cells themselves, easily replaceable if there is an issue.”


When asked if he would recommend the system to other researchers, Professor Chianese responded: “Yes. I think most researchers only analyse hydrogenation reactions at the endpoint because they don’t have a way to take aliquots. With the Asynt Multicell you can study hydrogenation reactions much more quickly, effi ciently and in more detail than was previously possible.”


The Multicell high pressure reactor is designed for undertaking experiments including carbonylation, hydrogenation, catalysis and supercritical fl uid reactions, as well as air sensitive material studies. Used in conjunction with a hotplate stirrer the standard 316 stainless steel Multicell reactor offers users the ability to undertake 10 x 30 mL reactions in parallel at pressures of up to 50 bar and temperatures up to 200°C. To increase the versatility of this high-performance system, Asynt can work with the end user on specifi c customisation to enhance the capabilities of the Multicell towards certain applications. Options include the ability to make additions/take samples under pressure, increased operating conditions up to 350°C and 200 bar, a 4-position system offering reaction volumes of up to 150 mL, sub-ambient reactor cooling, and the ability to have different temperatures and pressures in each reactor cell.


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Innovative Glass Syringe Set for Dissolved Analysis The latest additions to the Poulten & Graf syringe range are the innovative graduated FORTUNA®


for dissolved gas analysis.


With the extensive range of accessories, samples of oil-fi lled electrical transformers can be taken easily and in accordance with the regulations.


Any impurities or air bubbles can be immediately detected and avoided during sampling, and the sample can be safely delivered to the testing laboratory in its padded transport carton, which is long enough to hold the fi lled syringe.


The FORTUNA® DGA glass syringe sets comes with a nylon 3 way stop cock, a Tygon® tube with connector, a plug cap


and padded carry case to fi t the variations for the 20ml, 30ml, 50ml and 100ml sets. According to IEC 60475 - method of sampling insulation liquids. According to IEC 60567 - sampling of gases and analysis of free and dissolved gases.


According to ASTM 3613 - sampling insulating liquids for gas analysis and determination of water content. More information online: ilmt.co/PL/aMX1


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