Chromatography Training for Environmental Analysis

This course has been designed for anyone who is either new to GC, or who wishes to expand their current knowledge and understanding about the technique as a whole.

A step by step guide to setting up a GC instrument. From checking the cylinders, dismantling the inlet, to correctly installing a column and lighting an FID. 

This module details the optimum technique for successfully preparing GC standards.

The aims of this module include investigating the various sampling techniques available for GC analysis.

This webcast is for anyone working with volatile or trace analytes, developing GC methods for low-volatility or dirty sample matrices, or looking to expand their knowledge of GC sampling techniques.

Derivatization primarily increases analyte volatility, but it can also improve thermal stability, reduce GC surface interactions, and enhance resolution and detection. This session will help you understand which reactions occur and which are best for your analyte.

This module fully details the working principles of this inlet and the parameters that must be set for successful sample introduction. Common problems are also highlighted, ensuring you can troubleshoot or avoid them all together.

This module comprehensively details the working principles of this detector, giving you the knowledge and understanding to operate and optimize the detector for your analyses.

This webcast covers a purge-and-trap system that uses helium as the carrier gas while substituting a cheaper gas, like nitrogen, for split and purge phases, with supporting data from EPA VOC methods.

The primary aims of any sample preparation technique are to provide clean samples and enrich analytes to reduce limits of detection (LOD). 

This module will describe the underlying scientific principles behind QuEChERS allowing you to fully understand and successfully apply the process. 

The focus of this module is to provide you with practical information to improve your pipetting technique.

This quick guide details how Soxhlet extraction works, parameters that require optimization, and how improvements to the methodology and automation have allowed an increase in throughput and improved reproducibility. 

This module introduces the terminology associated with solid phase extraction (SPE). It explains the chemistry and physical properties associated with SPE sorbents and substrates. 

The purpose of this module is to highlight the various steps in the protocol for various modes (sorbents) for conventional solid phase extraction procedures.

This module fully investigates the various aspects of practical SPE, as well as describing the basic principles and stages of method development in SPE.

The focus of this module is to provide you with practical information to improve your pipetting technique.

A traditional glass pipette is one of the most fundamental laboratory tools any analyst must become highly competent in using. They are used routinely to accurately dispense a known volume of solution. This module teaches you the main aspects of this essential skill.

This bootcamp will empower you to correctly operate your instrument ensuring longer up-time, less troubleshooting, and more robust data acquisition.

This module will detail the process of obtaining and extracting spectra for library matching, what is involved in the matching process, and interpreting match results. As well as providing learning on troubleshooting poor library matching.

This webcast will look at how to decide between GC-MS or GC-MS/MS analysis and once this decision has been made how to optimize the analysis in a variety of practical ways. 

GC-MS data can be acquired in full scan mode for a wide m/z range or in SIM mode for targeted masses. This module explains their differences, key acquisition parameters, and how these affect data sensitivity.

Library matching of extracted mass spectra is key to confirming peak identity in GC-MS. This module covers how spectra are obtained, matched, and interpreted, along with tips for troubleshooting poor matches.

Quadrupole mass analyzers use electric fields across four rods to separate ions by mass-to-charge ratio. This module explains their theory and principles.

Time-of-flight mass analyzers work by extracting ions in short bursts, accelerating them, and measuring their flight down a fixed-length evacuated tube. Their principles are simpler than many other analyzers.

A GC-MS tune report is invaluable as it provides information on how well the instrument is working, indicates if cleaning or maintenance is required, serves as a chronicle of how the instrument has performed in the past, and can be used to diagnose problems when troubleshooting. 

With a strong emphasis on practical technique, this course is for HPLC operators who need to perform error-free routine analysis to a high level of consistency, accuracy and efficiency.

With a strong emphasis on practical technique, this course is for GC operators who need to perform error-free routine analysis to a high level of consistency, accuracy and efficiency.

With a strong emphasis on practical technique, this course is for GC-MS operators who need to perform error-free routine analysis to a high level of consistency, accuracy and efficiency.

A learning path on HPLC system suitability covers method validation, key chromatographic parameters (precision, accuracy, resolution, tailing factor, and theoretical plates), and calculation methods.

This learning path on quantitation, calibration, and integration in HPLC covers external and internal standard methods, calibration curves, and linearity assessment.