Beyond Standard Bottles: Customise Your LAMBDA OMNICOLL for Larger Collection Vessels

Your experiment determines the collection vessel—not the other way around.

Standard fraction collectors are often designed around specific tube racks and bottle dimensions. But what happens when your application requires larger bottles, taller containers, or collection vessels that do not fit into a standard setup?

The LAMBDA OMNICOLL Fraction Collector and Autosampler offers a flexible solution. With an adaptable support arrangement, custom funnels, and programmable collection positions, OMNICOLL can be configured for a wide range of collection requirements.

Collect into Large Bottles and Custom Vessels

Not every application involves small tubes or vials. Chromatography, chemical processing, industrial experiments, and long-duration sampling may require collection in 250 mL, 500 mL, 1 L, 2 L, or even larger containers.

OMNICOLL can be adapted to accommodate larger collection vessels by removing the lower support tray or modifying the collection arrangement to provide additional clearance.

This means you can use the containers suited to your experiment instead of limiting your collection volume to the dimensions of a standard rack.

Use Custom Funnels to Collect into Oversized Bottles

What if your collection bottle is too tall or too large to fit directly beneath the collection head?

A practical solution is to use a custom funnel connected to a larger bottle through suitable tubing.

The funnel is positioned at the collection point, directing the liquid through the tubing into the larger bottle. The bottle itself can be positioned separately, provided the arrangement allows reliable liquid transfer.

This configuration is particularly useful when working with large collection vessels that cannot be accommodated within the standard collector's available space.

Suitable funnel supports and tubing arrangements can be customised to meet the requirements of your application.

Adapt the Height to Your Application

Different collection vessels require different amounts of clearance. A setup designed for standard laboratory tubes may not accommodate taller bottles or specialised containers.

With OMNICOLL, the lower tray can be removed to make room for larger vessels. Custom supports and funnel arrangements provide additional flexibility when the standard configuration is not suitable.

The result is a collection system that can be adapted to different vessel heights and experimental requirements without necessarily replacing the entire instrument.

Suitable for a Wide Range of Applications

The flexibility to accommodate different collection vessels is valuable across many fields of research and process development.

Chromatography and purification
Collect fractions into larger bottles or flasks when working with larger elution volumes or extended separation processes.

Chemical reactions and process development
Collect liquid products, reaction samples, or process streams in containers suited to the required sample volume.

Fermentation and cell culture
Collect samples at programmed time intervals during experiments, including extended processes where collection vessels may need to accommodate different sample volumes.

Biological and physiological sampling
Collect fluids at regular intervals using bottles sized to suit the expected sample volume.

Industrial and pilot-scale experiments
Adapt the collection arrangement for larger containers and higher-volume fractions where standard laboratory racks are insufficient.

In each case, the collection arrangement can be tailored to the vessel dimensions, required volume, and experimental workflow.

Change Collection Configurations as Your Needs Evolve

Your collection requirements may change from one experiment to another. You might use 250 mL bottles for one study and 500 mL bottles for the next, or switch from standard tubes to a custom arrangement.

OMNICOLL allows users to program recipient positions for different rack and container configurations. Suitable user-supplied racks can be used, and the collection setup can be modified when requirements change.

Additional support units can also be combined to increase the number of collection positions when more samples are needed.

This flexibility helps laboratories adapt their existing collection system to new experiments and changing workflows.

One Fraction Collector, Multiple Possibilities

The LAMBDA OMNICOLL Fraction Collector and Autosampler is designed to accommodate a wide variety of collection vessels, from microplates and test tubes to bottles, flasks, and larger containers.

Its adaptable support arrangement and customisation options allow researchers to overcome the limitations imposed by standard collection racks.

Key advantages:

• Collect into larger bottles and containers.
• Use custom funnels connected to larger collection vessels.
• Remove the lower tray to accommodate taller bottles.
• Adapt supports and collection arrangements to suit different vessel dimensions.
• Reconfigure collection positions for different experiments.
• Extend collection capacity with additional support units.

Do not let standard bottle dimensions limit your experiment.

With LAMBDA OMNICOLL, the collection setup can be adapted to your application—from routine laboratory fractionation to specialised experiments requiring large or unconventional collection vessels.

Need a customised collection arrangement?

Contact LAMBDA Instruments with your bottle dimensions, required collection volume, and experimental setup. We can help identify a suitable OMNICOLL configuration for your application.

Contact us at sales@lambda-instruments.com