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The GFD®Lab is an all-in-one filter dryer designed to comply with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) for regulated research and development activities. It allows process developers and manufacturers to complete through a wide range of processes in one single system:

  • Slurry Filtration (solid-liquid separation)
  • Product Washing
  • Re-slurry
  • Vacuum Drying
  • Product Sampling
  • Product Discharge
GFD®Lab Agitated Nutsche Filter-Dryer Vessel Breakdown

At PSL, we understand your product is valuable. Therefore, maximising your product yield to remain competitive in your sector is vital.

The core features of the GFD®Lab nutsche filter dryer are designed to address this crucial requirement. Upon process completion, your product batch can be easily collected by simply removing the unique filtration basket from the GFD®Lab vessel.

Additionally, the GFD®Lab basket is designed to allow quick and easy changeover of filtration meshes with various pore-sizes and materials (Polypropylene, PTFE, 316LSS, Alloy 22, etc.), hence facilitating multi-product applications.

GFDLab-050-Basket

The GFD®Lab is an innovative agitated nutsche filter dryer with a modular design that enables end-users to interchange vessels sizes from the 010 and 050 series without the need to use a different base frame.

To further enhance production flexibility, the base frame of each GFD®Lab model is also compatible with all available vessel materials (i.e. borosilicate glass, 316LSS, Alloy 22)

Modules of GFD®Lab Agitated Nutsche Filter-Dryer

Due to its unique modular design, it is possible to upgrade the standard GFD®Lab Filter Dryer into a GFD®Lab PLUS model by simply retrofitting a new base frame to the existing vessel. By opting for this upgrade, the additional features allow you to speed-up development activities by automating the controls of your GFD®Lab.

  • Digital display (42 colour HMI touchscreen)

  • Enhanced user-interface allowing quick navigation

  • Real-time process graph display

  • Design process sequences

  • Optimise and save process recipes (up to 99)

  • Record and export process data

HMI-Graph-Function

The GFD®Lab PLUS allows users to build bespoke process sequences and optimise process recipes to suit particular process applications.

Production can start at a touch of a button and pre-designed recipes can be initiated with your preferred process parameters (e.g. pressure/vacuum, agitator speed/torque, temperature, duration), thus maximising batch-after-batch reproduction while minimising human error.

GFD®Lab Agitated Nutsche Filter-Dryer Control Box Interface

Selecting the right process technology at R&D stage is crucial to ensure ultimate scale-up success. PSL’s GFD® Nutsche Filter Dryers are designed to streamline scale-up development from early R&D activities with the GFD®Lab, up to GLP batches and Pilot Plant Production using the GFD®Pilot.

It is perfectly suited to complete scale-up and scale-down studies as it helps maintain, at every scale, your key process objectives (e.g. product quality, product yield, batch consistency, etc.) and key production parameters (e.g. filtration time, washing time, drying time, etc.).

GFD Nutsche Filter Dryer scale-up options

Being one of the early pioneers of containment technology, PSL has developed the unique FilterBox isolator range which can successfully accommodate every GFD®Lab vessel size (010, 050 and 500 series).

By opting for a GFD®Lab FilterBox, operators are safe-guarded from the most toxic/potent compounds and that your product is protected from production environments.

Agitated Nutsche Filter Dryer Filter Box - GFD®Lab

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Due to its unique modular design, it is possible to upgrade the standard GFD®Lab Filter Dryer into a GFD®Lab PLUS model by simply retrofitting a new base frame to the existing vessel. By opting for this upgrade, the additional features allow you to speed-up development activities by automating the controls of your GFD®Lab.

  • Digital display (42 colour HMI touchscreen)

  • Enhanced user-interface allowing quick navigation

  • Real-time process graph display

  • Design process sequences

  • Optimise and save process recipes (up to 99)

  • Record and export process data

HMI-Graph-Function

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The GFD®Lab PLUS allows users to build bespoke process sequences and optimise process recipes to suit particular process applications.

Production can start at a touch of a button and pre-designed recipes can be initiated with your preferred process parameters (e.g. pressure/vacuum, agitator speed/torque, temperature, duration), thus maximising batch-after-batch reproduction while minimising human error.

GFD®Lab Agitated Nutsche Filter-Dryer Control Box Interface