The GC-2010 Plus from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments improves separation performance, reduces analysis time, redefines sensitivity limits for trace analysis, and ensures data quality for a wide range of applications, using Shimadzu's Advanced Flow Technology suite of detectors.
AFT consists of digital pressure controllers, additional hardware, and new, intuitive software, which provide solutions for improving productivity and enhancing performance. Two new AFT packages are the backflush kit and detector splitting system.
The backflush system discharges high-boiling point components efficiently through the injection port split vent to reduce analysis time, and prevent column deterioration and detector contamination. The detector splitting system splits compounds eluting from an analytical column to multiple detectors to obtain multiple chromatograms.
The GC-2010 Plus utilizes a family of new detectors. Each detector (FID, FPD, ECD, FTD, and TCD) has been engineered using the latest technology, from upgraded cell insulation to an improved collector design to address increasing sensitivity demands for trace-level analysis.
The GC-2010 Plus incorporates a redesigned oven enabling rapid heating and cooling. A double-jet cooling system touts optimized air flow channels that enable a rapid cooling time from 450°C to 50°C in 3.4 minutes. Long-term stability of peak retention times is realized by the new room temperature compensation technology built into each Advanced Flow Controller.
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, www.ssi.shimadzu.com
Published in R & D magazine: Vol. 52, No. 1, February, 2010, p.10.
