Safe Laboratory Heating Just Got Faster

The latest version of Asynt’s DrySyn Classic heating blocks can heat a reaction flask 25% faster than an oil bath. Design improvements have resulted in improved heat transfer characteristics, faster heating and cooling, and even more compact dimensions.

Used in combination with a standard hotplate stirrer, these blocks conveniently replace dangerous oil baths in the chemistry laboratory. Apart from the obvious safety benefits, DrySyn heating blocks offer excellent heating performance up to 300ºC, a small footprint and excellent reaction visibility, and are fully compatible with magnetic stirring. They also offer an excellent alternative to heating mantles, which are considerably more expensive (a different unit must be used for each flask size) and often exhibit uneven heating prone to ‘hot spots’. The basic DrySyn Classic package consists of a base unit that takes a standard 1000ml round-bottomed flask, and a set of adaptors for other sizes, from 50ml upwards.

Asynt Managing Director Martyn Fordham, said: “The DrySyn Classic has become the standard heating device in major pharmaceutical and R&D laboratories and in many universities. Thousands of individual units and over 5000 complete systems are in use worldwide. That fully endorses the DrySyn concept, but we have a policy of continuous product improvement and this latest design now performs even better.”