How It Works

LyoWave TurboDry™ is a tunable high-frequency microwave heating platform designed to accelerate the manufacturing process for frozen and lyophilized pharmaceutical systems.

Utilizing cutting-edge solid-state RF amplifier technology, TurboDry™ technology delivers proven performance for small molecules, vaccines, biologics, reagents, and medical devices.

TurboDry™ Advantages

Uniformity and Efficiency

Operating at frequencies specifically targeting water ice, TurboDry^TM combines proprietary electronic mixing and metasurface scattering elements to achieve an electric field uniformity over 5 times greater than traditional 2.45 GHz microwave systems at a fraction of the power.

Volumetric Heating

Dielectric heating eliminates the need for conduction from temperature-controlled shelves and abolishes throughput bottlenecks placed on novel dosage forms such as lyobeads, nested vials and syringes, bulk powders, and shell/spinfrozen systems.

Precision Control

Specialized optical temperature sensors combined with a proprietary closed-loop control architecture provide accurate and robust control over product temperature during drying and thawing operations.

Seamless Integration

Modular and minimally invasive, TurboDry^TM easily retrofits onto new and existing laboratory and pilot-scale freeze-drying systems in minutes.

Key Features

Solid-State RF Source

• >12 GHz output at power levels up to 100W per module.

• Patented electromagnetic mixing improves heating uniformity by 5x relative to 2.45GHz systems.

Standardized Communication

• Standard Modbus communication interface provides monitoring and control capability.

• Local or remote operation.

Temperature Measurement

• Optional optical probes provide calibrated temperature measurement accuracy of +/- 0.2°C and resolution of 0.1°C.

Advanced Field Mixing

• Enhanced electromagentic mixing using patented metasurface scattering technology and modulation.

Remote Sensing

• Non-invasive infrared imaging of product temperature in real time.

• Time-lapse image logging and user-defined point tracking for simplified post-processing and analysis.

Closed-Loop Control

• RF power and frequency modulation based on real-time feedback from temperature sensors.

• Precise control of product temperature to accelerate development time and optimize the drying process.