Customers utilizing Wahal ultrafine wet bead mills for cell or algae disruption processes can gain numerous advantages due to the technology and services offered by Wahal:
Process Efficiency and Product Quality:
- High Disruption Efficiency: Wahal’s bead mills are designed to achieve very high levels of cell disruption, releasing a greater percentage of valuable intracellular components from algae. This leads to increased product yield and improved process efficiency.
- Fine Particle Size: The mills can produce very fine particle sizes, which are crucial for maximizing the extraction of valuable compounds like lipids, proteins, and pigments from algae.
- Uniform Particle Size Distribution: Wahal mills offer excellent control over particle size distribution, ensuring consistent product quality and facilitating downstream processing steps.
- Scalability: Wahal offers a range of bead mill sizes and configurations, allowing customers to scale their algae disruption processes from lab-scale to industrial production seamlessly.
Operational Benefits:
- Versatility: Wahal bead mills can process various algae species and cell densities, as well as handle different types of media, offering flexibility to customers.
- Controllable Process: Parameters like bead size, bead material, agitation speed, and residence time can be precisely controlled, allowing for optimization of the disruption process for specific algae and desired product outcomes.
- Continuous Operation: Wahal bead mills can be operated in continuous mode, enabling high throughput and efficient processing of large volumes of algae biomass.
- Easy Maintenance and Cleaning: The mills are designed for ease of maintenance and cleaning, minimizing downtime and ensuring smooth operation.