Thermo Electron will launch a series of complete instrument packages to facilitate elemental speciation analyses of liquid samples at Pittcon 2004
Thermo Electron Thermo Electron will launch a series of complete instrument packages to facilitate elemental speciation analyses of liquid samples at Pittcon 2004.
These packages deliver 'off the shelf' solutions for automated analysis in the routine and commercial laboratory environment.
The new HPLC and GC coupling packs for the X series ICP-MS can be easily integrated with other Thermo analytical tools such as HPLC (Finnigan Surveyor or Spectra system) and GC (Finnigan Focus or Finnigan Trace) instrumentation.
Interest in the use of hyphenated techniques for elemental speciation analysis in environmental, biological and clinical sample matrices is growing.
Individual elemental species can exhibit various physical properties such as solubility, boiling point, toxicity and metabolic pathways in living organisms.
With HPLC-ICP-MS and GC-ICP-MS, minimal sample preparation is required prior to analysis and rapid 'on-line' species separations are achievable.
This ensures these techniques are ideally suited for the analyses of complex matrices with high species specificity and low detection limits.
Simple instrument coupling and intelligent software facilitate high sample throughput and the automation of quantitative element speciation analysis.
The X series ICP-MS benefits from an open architecture sample introduction system enabling rapid and simple interchangeability between ICP-MS, GC-ICP-MS and HPLC-ICP-MS configurations.
Both aqueous and organic mobile phases can be used to achieve optimum chromatographic separations.
Thermo's GC-ICP-MS instrumentation comprises a unique dual mode sample introduction system.
This feature enables simple optimisation of the GC-ICP-MS system using an aqueous tune solution and aids both GC-ICP-MS and ICP-MS analysis with a single instrument configuration.
The X series PlasmaLab software enables automated control of HPLC and GC accessories using intelligent productivity-enhancing bi-directional communications.
Analytical data can be acquired using flexible internal standardisation methods to correct for gradient elution and instrumental drift.
Flexible chromatographic peak integration and data reporting facilities (XML and CSV format) are further incorporated into the software to provide a complete analytical solution for elemental speciation analysis.
