GC Column Troubleshooting

Thursday, January 22, 2026
8am PDT | 11am EDT | 4pm BST | 5pm CEST

Join us for a practical, insight-packed GC column troubleshooting webcast designed to help you get the best performance from your system and solve problems faster. Whether you're battling rising baseline noise, distorted peaks, or unexplained shifts in chromatographic behavior, this session will walk you through the most common column-related issues - and how to fix them. We’ll cover proper column storage, how to recognize and reduce column bleed, best practices for column conditioning, and strategies to prevent and address phase fouling and contamination. You’ll also learn how to diagnose and correct peak distortion to keep your separations sharp and reliable. Perfect for analysts at any level looking to strengthen their GC confidence and keep their instruments running smoothly.

Topics include:

  • Column storage
  • Column bleed
  • Column conditioning
  • Phase fouling and contamination
  • Peak distortion
  • Column conditioning
  • Phase fouling and contamination

 

Speaker

Phil Aston (Training and Technical Consultant, Element Lab Solutions)

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