Expert chromatography for everyone

Stay in front of your competitors with routine chromatography at warp speed.

No speed limits with fast chromatography

One of the easiest ways to increase throughput in your laboratory is to use fast chromatography. The primary aim of fast chro-matography is to maintain adequate resolving power in a shorter time compared to the con-ventional chromatography you are using today.
Fast GC uses column and instrument impro-vements in combination with optimized instru-mental settings to provide analysis times that are three to ten times faster, without sacrificing sensitivity and resolution.

Fast chromatography can be accomplished by manipulating analysis parameters, such as

column length, column I.D., stationary phase film thickness, carrier gas type and linear velocity, oven temperature and heating rate. Optimally, fast GC is performed using short, 0.10 mm, 0.15 mm or 0.18 mm I.D. capillary columns and fast oven heating. Narrow bore columns result in in-creased efficiency, necessary to offset the decrease caused by the shorter column length.

Hydrogen is best choice carrier gas for fast GC due to its low backpressure, high diffusivity and high optimal linear velocity. Since hydrogen can be generated in minute amounts quite con-veniently using a tabletop generator, safety issues, which are by far the main no go criterion for the majority of laboratories, are largely over-exaggerated. We have implemented several hydro-gen methods, even in combination with mass spectrometry.

We have a lot of experience optimizing methods and training people to use fast chromatography. In order to emphasize the importance we attach to fast chromatography, we have opened Fast Lab. In Fast Lab we optimize your methods using standard techniques and instrumentation.