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Elix® Advantage Water Purification System

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Detailed introduction

Elix® Advantage has been designed to deliver the highest pure water quality for your regular laboratory applications and instrument feed. With over 20 years of proven success, Elix® is suited to every user’s needs in today’s demanding laboratory environment. Elix® water quality is ideal for the preparation of reagents and buffers, for microbiology media or histology. It is also the best feed for all Milli-Q® ultrapure systems, as well as instruments such as glassware washers, autoclaves, hydrogen generators. 

Elix® Advantage produces pure, Type 2 water from potable water. It features two separate and distinct components: 

·         The production unit – compact, it can be placed wherever it best suits you. 

·         The E-POD®, Elix®-Point-Of-Delivery unit – convenient and always within reach, it brings pure, bacteria-free water at 2 L/min right where you need it.

Elix® water • Best-in-class pure water

To reach the most reliable pure water quality, Elix® is built on an optimized purification sequence:
Tap water first enters the Progard® pretreatment cartridge which efficiently removes particles & colloids, free chlorine and hardness before reverse osmosis (RO) purification. Elix® Advantage benefits from intelligent RO technology. This controls water consumption, ensures a constant product flow rate and optimal water quality. All prolong the lifetime of the RO membrane and downstream purification technologies. Depending on daily volume needs, different production flow rates are available (3, 5, 10 & 15 L/h). 
The patented Elix® module further removes ions to typically reach 15 MΩ•cm (at 25°C) resistivity. All Elix® systems are equipped with the best-in-class Elix®electrodeionization technology. It provides:

·         Superior and consistent Type 2 water quality – “Superior”, as resin beads are not degraded by exposure to harsh regeneration chemicals. “Consistent”, as the continuous regeneration avoids the drawbacks of quality variations from resin exhaustion. 

·         Cost & labor savings – Elix® module contains special carbon beads at its cathode therefore, does not require water softening. Its self-regeneration technology avoids the hassle and costs around DI cartridge replacement. Elix® is “green” consuming low energy with a small carbon footprint. 

·         Long lasting technology – thanks to its proven design, the module continuously regenerates its resin beads without the need for any maintenance.


Elix® pure water then recirculates through a loop where it is irradiated by a long-life bactericidal UV lamp before entering the storage tank. The reservoir design maintains consistent purity of stored water. The vent filter provides effective protection against airborne contaminants and the ASM, Automatic Sanitization Module, prevents biofilm formation. Elix® Water can be accessed through the E-POD® dispenser or it can be sent by a distribution pump to feed instruments. The Progard® cartridge incorporates RFID technology. This provides instant visibility on cartridge parameters and also ensures a safe & optimal performance of your system, giving you full traceability.

E-POD® dispenser • Advanced technology

The E-POD® dispenser simplifies operation and displays essential data in an easy-to-use and compact device.

·         Get the right water quality for your experiments – Fitted to each E-POD®, an Application-Pak provides final polishing to match the water quality according to your application’s exact needs. Millipak® and Biopak® final filters are available - Pure water free of particulates, bacteria, pyrogens, RNases and DNases. 

·         Facilitate your daily lab work - The E-POD® remote dispenser is always within reach. Its convenient and adaptable handling enables both intuitive and precise dispensing. The user can select either a specific volume with the autofill key or manually press the plunger. Its multicolor graphic display allows easy interaction with the system and provides information about water quantity and quality. 

·         Free up space on your bench - As only the E-POD® is necessary for daily needs, the system can now be placed where it is most convenient – under the bench, on the wall… Up to three E-POD®s can be used with each production unit at different locations within the same laboratory.

 

 

Water Specifications

Elix® Advantage pure water (Type 2)

Resistivity at 25 °C*

Typically 10-15 MΩ•cm

TOC

< 30 ppb

Production flow Rate

3 L/h (Elix® Advantage 3)
5 L/h (Elix® Advantage 5)
10 L/h (Elix® Advantage 10)
15 L/h (Elix® Advantage 15)

From an E-POD® dispenser with final filter, the following water quality specifications are achieved:

Particulates (size > 0.22 μm)**

< 1 particulate/mL

Bacteria**

< 0.1 CFU/mL

Pyrogens (endotoxins)***

< 0.001 EU/mL

RNases***

< 0.01 ng/mL

Dnases***

< 4 pg/μL

Flow rate

Up to 2 L/min

* Resistivity can also be displayed non-temperature-compensated as required by USP 
** With Millipak® final filter
*** With Biopak® Polisher

Feed water

Feed water quality

Potable tap water as described in US-EPA, EP and WHO norms

Feed water connection

½” Gaz M

Feed water pressure*

1-6* bar

Feed water temperature

5 – 35 °C

* For pressure above 6 bar, a pressure regulator needs to be installed upstream of the system

System Specifications

Production unit

Dimensions (H x W x D)

500 x 346 x 484 mm (19.7 x 13.6 x 19.0 in)

Operating weight

24.4 - 26.4 kg (53.8 - 58.0 lb)

Electric power supply voltage

100 - 230 V +/- 10%

Electric power supply frequency

50 - 60 Hz +/- 10%

Elix® Advantage main unit data connection

Ethernet (RJ45)

E-POD® dispenser

Dimensions (H x D)

579 x 230 mm (22.8 x 9.0 in)

Operating weight

4.7 kg (12.1 lb)

Dispenser tubing length

0.8 m (31.5 in)

Distance from production unit to E-POD®

2.9 m (9.5 ft)

Electric power cable length

2.9 m (9.5 ft)

E-POD® data connection

Parallel port (25-pin D-Sub)