Analytix has released a downloadable e-book download that presents a ‘total workflow’ approach to sample preparation and examines the ways to improve key aspects of elemental analysis.
Recent years have seen the transitioning of laboratories from AA to ICP-OES and ICP-MS to increase productivity, improve data quality, and meet new regulations. At the same time, sample preparation has also evolved from relatively rudimentary open-vessel digestion to advanced closed vessel digestion, marked by technologies such as contactless temperature control and advanced vessel designs enabling higher temperatures and pressures.
Such developments have resulted in improved digestion times, quality, blanks, and safety. While the digestion step attracts the most attention in the preparation process, there are other equally important steps in the total workflow that should be considered, some of which may be unexpected in scope and scale.
The ebook discusses optimisation of acid supply and quality, reagent addition, vessel handling, microwave digestion, sample filtering, and labware cleaning. It also offers practical advice for preventing workflow disruptions such as incomplete digestions or sample contamination that restrict a laboratory from meeting overall performance, costs, and safety goals.
There are also direct links to videos, technology reports, multiple webinars, and two case studies in which employing the ‘total workflow’ approach has resulted in lower costs and time saving benefits plus reduced errors and contamination.
For a free copy of the e-book or for more information please visit www.analytix.co.uk/contact/ or call +44 (0) 191 519 4504
