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Freezing of many vials in a freeze dryer normally works out as a stochastic process. All vials will freeze only within a certain time frame, e.g. 1 hour. Furthermore, this crystallisation happens at different temperatures. Crystal structure and later drying behaviour will diverge.
For futher information:
The new developed technology LyoCoN (Controlled Nucleation) creates a controlled nucleation of all to be lyophilised vials. After loading of the freeze dryer, the cold ice condenser accumulates ice crystals (Fig. 1). Simultaneously the liquid product is cooled down close to the freezing point. In the next step a slight vacuum is established in the freeze dryer (Fig. 2). The external recipient is kept under atmospheric pressure. Finally a pressure equilibration between recipient and freeze dryer is started by opening a valve to the ice condenser. The air/gas from the recipient is injected into the ice condenser. The resulting ice fog infiltrates all vials (Fig. 3). These crystal nuclei immediately start homogeneous crystallisation in all vials.
After this, the freeze dryer is aerated completely to atmospheric pressure. Freezing of all crystallized vials can be continued in a conventional way, e.g. by further cooling down, annealing etc.
Figure 1: Ice crystal accumulation at ice condenser.
Figure 2: Formation of a slight vacuum in the freeze dryer.
Figure 3: Injection of an ice fog in the product chamber by pressure compensation between external recipient and ice condenser chamber.
Mr. Jörg Kellerhals
Sales Manager
Basel, Bern, Luzern and Ticino
Mrs. Véronique Miano
Sales representative Western Switzerland
Mr. Jörg Kellerhals
Sales Manager Switzerland
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