Acquity TQD puts the power of ultra performance liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry into the hands of more chromatographers now that the instrument is under Empower 2.0 software control
This UPLC/MS/MS system takes the inherent selectivity and robustness of tandem quadrupole MS/MS and combines it with the speed and sensitivity provided by UPLC technology to give chromatographers significant productivity advantages.
The Acquity TQD is a benchtop, ultra-compact, tandem-quadrupole, atmospheric pressure ionization (API) mass detector-based system designed for routine UPLC/MS/MS analyses.
Now that control of the Acquity TQD is available in Empower 2.0 software, laboratories already using Empower 2.0 Software to power their liquid chromatographs can take advantage of the Acquity TQD's powerful capabilities.
With first-of-its-kind IntelliStart technology to integrate the internal calibration fluidics and advanced diagnostics software, the system automatically tunes and calibrates the Acquity TQD and conducts full UPLC/MS/MS performance checks.
This allows chromatographers to easily and confidently acquire UPLC/MS/MS data in routine analytical and open access applications.
In particular, Waters Acquity TQD has been optimised for such applications as high throughput drug metabolism studies, food safety and quality testing, environmental monitoring, and clinical therapeutic drug monitoring.
In addition to its ease-of-use, the Acquity TQD also breaks new ground as the industry's first complete UPLC/MS/MS system to feature Waters Connections Insight, an intelligent device diagnostic monitoring service that increases system uptime by securely collecting information about instrument conditions and then encrypting and transmitting it to secure proxy servers at Waters.
In this way, preventive maintenance procedures can be scheduled before the scientist is even aware of the need for them.
The Acquity TQD utilises T-Wave technology to enable rapid MS/MS acquisition speeds delivering higher productivity in UPLC and multi-residue applications.
The rapid MS/MS capability (5ms dwell times) and fast polarity switching of the Acquity TQD make it an ideal system for high speed quantitation, particularly when coupled with the Acquity UPLC system on the front end.
Ionization sources include the patented ZSpray (dual orthogonal sampling) interface, multi-mode ESCi for atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (APCI) and electrospray (ESI) ionisation.
Dedicated IonSabre APCI and atmospheric pressure photo-ionisation (APPI) probes are also available.
System control and data acquisition can be performed with either Waters MassLynx 4.1 or Empower 2 Software.
This delivers MS/MS capability to Empower network customers for the first time.
