Pumps, Valves & Liquid Handling
Dispensing of Ethanol Cooking Fuel into African Homes
Titan Enterprises’ flow meter technology is playing a vital role in supporting KOKO Networks deliver cheap, safe and clean cooking fuel into African homes.
Designed and built by KOKO Networks, ‘KOKO Point’ vending machines dispense liquid bioethanol to customers across Nairobi. Installed inside local shops, these clean fuel ATMs provide fuel in small quantities for daily cooking, and are part of an elegant solution to a widespread problem in African cities: how to get clean fuel for cooking into homes safely and affordably.
KOKO has installed around 700 KOKO Point Fuel ATMs in corner stores right across Nairobi, and is preparing to expand across the rest of Kenya from next year. There is already strong demand for this safe, clean cooking fuel; customers simply dock their reusable KOKO fuel bottles into the machine, and once at home, connect the bottle to KOKO-designed twin-hob stoves.
Neil Hannay, Business Development Manager at Titan Enterprises, commented: “A few years ago we were approached by KOKO to work with them on this life changing development for African families. KOKO required a highly reliable and inexpensive flow meter capable of precisely dispensing ethanol cooking fuel in small volumes.
“As a result of our joint development, at the heart of each KOKO Point fuel ATM is a precision Pelton wheel turbine flowmeter that rotates freely on robust sapphire bearings and contains over-moulded magnets that are detected through the chamber wall by a Hall effect detector. The output from this turbine flow meter is a stream of NPN pulses that are directly interfaced with the electronic display. This combination of materials and technology ensures a long-life product with reliable operation throughout. Constructed from totally non-metallic wetted components and offering a flow range of up to 10 litres per minute, our turbine flow meters are helping transform the way that African families undertake their daily cooking tasks.”
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Fast Reagent Dispensing for Streamlined Nucleic Acid Purifi cation
Integra Biosciences’ VIAFILL reagent dispenser is the perfect complement to magnetic particle processors such as ThermoFisher’s KingFisher™ system, streamlining workflows for extraction and purification of nucleic acids.
The VIAFILL can quickly and efficiently prepare purification plates for a variety of workflows, offering: ability to dispense a large range of volumes using the same set up; full labware flexibility, from 6 to 1536 well plates, including deep well and PCR plates; easy to use touch screen and simple programming; small footprint to fit into any lab; direct dispensing from manufacturers’ bottles, minimising liquid transfers and contamination risk.
The VIAFILL enables rapid reagent preparation for automated extraction, and supports optimised dispensing of various solutions, such as viscous wash buffers and beads, or volatile liquids like ethanol. The system offers fast and simple plate preparation for a number of different formats - including 24 or 96 well deep well plates used by the KingFisher systems - dispensing defined volumes of buffers or solutions for the various steps of nucleic acid extraction. For high throughput applications, the VIAFILL’s optional plate stacker can simplify preparation of numerous reagent plates ready for extraction on the KingFisher system - further streamlining the workflow without compromising the reproducibility of dispensing.
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New Pump Series for High- Precision Applications Launched
Premier Control Technologies Ltd (PCT) are proud to announce the launch of their Longer Pump series that is specifi cally designed with highly confi gurable options to meet high-precision applications as seen within science and research, whilst also ensuring straight-forward, cost sensitive, solutions for Original Equipment Manufacturers.
Longer Pumps are owned by the British company Halma and are dedicated to quality, value and continuous innovation. The series, as a whole, covers peristaltic, syringe, micro-piston and micro- gear pumps, with fl ow rate capability ranging from 0.001 microlitres through to 35 litres per minute. Whilst pressure capability is usually determined by the tubing used, these piston pumps are rated to 6.8 bar and the micro-gear pumps to 14 bar.
Typical applications cover virtually every segment of industry from biotechnology and pharmaceutical, food and brewing, chemical, water treatment and electronics manufacturing through to emissions monitoring, analytical and the semiconductor Industry. Examples of where Longer Pumps have been used include laboratory fl uid transfer, biopharma fi ltration, fi lling and dosing, analysers, dialysis machines, CEMS systems, IVD machines and many more.
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