Troubleshooting LC Systems: A Comprehensive Approach to Troubleshooting LC Equipment and Separations

Dolan, John W.; Snyder, Lloyd R.

ISBN 10: 0896031519 / ISBN 13: 9780896031517

Published by Springer, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Troubleshooting LC Systems: A Comprehensive Approach to Troubleshooting LC Equipment and Separations
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896031519
• ISBN 13: 9780896031517
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Over the last 15 years, high-performance liquid chromatogra­ phy (LC) has made the transition from an instrument used only by experts in research labs to a tool used for routine applications by relatively unskilled workers. With this transition have come in instrumentation and column technology. In major advances the past, the operator had to be a jack-of-all-trades, with a screw­ driver, soldering iron, and various wrenches as constant compan­ ions in the LC lab. Today, many instruments contain micropro­ cessors as powerful as those of mainframe computers of earlier days. With this technology has come a variety of self-diagnostic tools that allow the LC system to locate many of its own prob­ lems. Traditionally, well-honed LC troubleshooting skills have been a result of years of work at the bench. Today the LC system itself often can do a better job of troubleshooting than the operator can. Yet many of the problems of the past are still the major problems of today: air bubbles, check valves, detector lamps, and, of course, problems with the separation. An added pressure on the operator of today's LC system is that of productivity-the lab often cannot afford unnecessary downtime. This means that the operator has to be a troubleshooting expert, or has to have that expertise at his or her fingertips. The present book was written to provide this expertise in an easy-to-use format for users at all levels of experience.