Exeter Analytical has launched the CE-440, a fully automated CHN/O/S elemental analyser designed to give accurate and reliable results over a wide range of sample types presented for analysis.
Proven in independent tests to provide unmatched operating accuracy and precision, CE-440 delivers simultaneous CHN analysis in less than five minutes, thus increasing laboratory productivity.
Benefiting from a horizontal furnace design, the 440 allows analysts to routinely and simply produce precise data on wide-ranging sample types without system re-optimisation, saving time and reducing running costs.
The advantages of its horizontal furnace design are particularly beneficial to university laboratories analysing filtered environmental samples, organic sediments, volatile liquids and time-dependent combustible samples.
The CE-440 uses thermal conductivity detection to measure carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen, after combusting and reducing a sample.
Exeter Analytical claims the CE-440 is inherently more stable than gas chromatographic-based systems, allowing it to deliver superior performance and sampling precision over the wide range of sample types faced by a typical university laboratory.
The company also claims that its low gas and reagent consumption combined with high reduction tube life allow the CE-440 to deliver some of the lowest operating costs of any CHN elemental analyser available.
The CE-440's Windows-based operating software aims to reduce human error through a combination of automation, customer help and diagnostic facilities.
Most parts on the CE-440 are user replaceable, further reducing operating costs and downtime.
