Use supercritical fluids and eliminate the capillary stress that causes cracks and yield loss in the aerogel drying process.

No need to tolerate low-yield results as with freeze drying.

The Spe-ed SFE Sirocco is a supercritical fluid system specially designed for aerogel drying.

Sirocco for Many Kinds of Aerogels

• Silica

• Titanates, e.g. Ba

• Metals (copper and gold)

• Metal Oxides (iron, tin, aluminum)

• Rare earth metals (lanthanide and actinide series)

• Semiconductor Nanostructures

• Biological polymer

• Tissue Scaffolding

• Organic Polymers

• Carbon

Main Specification:

Automated depressurization

• Touch screen control of all parameters

• Set your rate of depressurization

• Assured quantitative reproducibility

• Set longer depressurization times (hours, days) if needed, to ensure drying for even the most fragile aerogels

• Set the rate and walk away

Variable size vessels

• accommodates numerous shapes and sizes or powders

• Special “Submersion Holder” to ensure no exposure to destructive 2 phases conditions

No “drift back”

Special heating to overcome Joule Thompson cooling during depressurization preventing “drift back” into destructive 2 phases conditions

• Temperatures to 150°C

• Pressure up to 1,600psi (110 BAR)

• CO2 pump: up to 50mL/min flow rate

• Optional liquid pump