Raw material processing |
drying, grinding, sieving |
Extraction |
1-20 li capacity |
Rotary evaporation |
1-20 li capacity |
Spray drying |
0.1-5 li capacity |
Qualitative phytochemical screening |
Fingerprinting, densitometric quantification (QuantiScan) |
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC), Centrifugal chromatography (Chromatotron), High-performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC, Camag) |
alkaloids, flavonoids, tanins, saponins, terpenoids |
| High-performance liquid chromatograpghy (HPLC) | Identification, quantification, profiling |
| UV-Vis spectroscopy | Quantification |
Distillation (conventional, soxhlet) |
0.5-1 li capacity |
Essential oil distillation |
1-5 kg capacity |
| Oil press | 1-2 kg capacity |
Screw press/juice press |
1-10 kg capacity |
Microbial tests |
TAC, TYM, E. coli, P. aeruginosa, Enterobacteriaceae, S. aureus, Salmonella spp. |
Antimicrobial screening |
E. coli, ESBL+ E. coli, S. aureus, MRSA S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, S.typhii, P. vulgaris, A. niger, S. cerevisiae, K. pneumonia, S. mutans |
Stability/shelf life |
30°C/75% RH, 40°C/75% RH |
| Laboratory/research equipment for pharmaceutical work | Granulator, manual tablet press, hydraulic tablet press, single punch tableting machine, tablet hardness tester, tablet thickness tester, tablet friability tester, tablet disintegration tester, tablet dissolution tester, leak tester, bulk density tester, tapped density tester, powder flow meter, viscosity meter, Franz diffusion cell |
Miscellaneous laboratory equipment for chemistry and microbiology work |
Autoclave, balances (analytical and micro), biosafety cabinet (Class II), centrifuge, chemical hood, furnace, grinder, heating plate, homogenizers, incubator, laminar flow hood, microscopes, oven, pipettor, reflux, shaker, siever, sonicator (bath and probe-type), soxhlet apparatus, stirrers, ultralow freezer, vacuum concentrator, vacuum filter, vacuum oven, vacuum pump, vortex mixer, water bath |
Various test meters for R&D and QC work |
Air velocity meter, alcohol meter, brix meter, bulk density tester, color cabinet, differential pressure meter, conductivity meter, hydrometer, hygrometer, infrared thermometer, leak tester, lux meter, moisture tester, pH meter, polarimeter, powder flow meter, specific gravity tester, tapped density tester, test sieves, TDS meter, viscosity meter, water activity meter, wind velocity meter |
