Glass Lab Filter Dryer (GFD) is an innovative, efficient, laboratory concept designed, engineered and manufactured by Powder Systems. The GFD is a miniature version of a production filter dryer, allowing easy lab scale filtration and drying with the same reliability and benefits as the PSL full size filter dryer products. The GFD is jacketed, allowing the researcher to obtain valuable information on how a process will actually work in production early on in the development stage. Problems can be identified and solved before scale up and data, in relation to the safety of a process, can be obtained. This valuable information enables a company to reduce development times and get products to market faster, more than justifying the initial costs of purchasing this equipment. The GFD has a unique removable filter basket that ensures easy recovery of dried product at maximum yield, with an added advantage of batch homogeneity and easy cleaning benefits to the user.