Torion Technologies Inc. introduced a new, PC-based software application, CHROMION-1, for its GUARDION-7 hand-portable capillary gas chromatograph-toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (GC-TMS). The GUARDION-7 is a portable GC-TMS. A high speed GC is combined with a miniaturized toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer (TMS) in a lightweight, field-portable instrument that is fast, reliable and easy to operate. The capillary GC provides rapid, high resolution separation of analytes, while the TMS supports highly sensitive mass-based detection of a wide variety of compounds. The G-7 weighs <30 lbs, is the size of a brief case, operates on battery power, and has an on-board helium carrier gas cartridge.
Even though the GUARDION-7 GC-TMS operates as a standalone system during field operations, CHROMION-1 software allows the user to manage the instrument’s system functions using an Ethernet connection with a portable laptop computer. The software is smart, versatile, and intuitive featuring method, calibration, and library functions for quick GC-TMS method editing, instrument calibration, and target compound library development. The data retriever function of CHROMION-1 facilitates rapid retrieval of GC-TMS data from the GUARDION-7 compact flash card for viewing and processing using Torion’s new CHROMION-AP software. Other third-party analytics software applications, such as Ion Signature IFD and MASSTransit, can also be accessed and used through CHROMION-1.
The software is Windows based with intuitive menu bars and icons for quick navigation to the point-and-click selectable functions. The user is assisted by smart parameter entry of set-points for calibration, method and library functions for rapid method set-up and editing. For example, when a target ion mass is selected, the mass range window is automatically entered at + 0.5 amu, which can also be edited by the user. Most importantly, CHROMION-1 offers excellent versatility to the GUARDION-7 GC-TMS user for optimizing instrument method parameters (e.g. GC temperature program rate or mass scan range) and for customizing the on-board target compound library used by the instrument for automated identification during sample analysis.
Torion Technologies Inc., www.torion.com
