Trace GC Ultra™

The TRACE GC UltraTM is built around the recognized quality, reliability and ruggedness of the established TRACE GC. Ultra performance, reliability, and usability make this a must-have GC for any laboratory. Automated features result in a tremendous increase in sample throughput, with analyses performed up to 30 times faster than before, without compromises in precision.

The new Ultra platform incorporates innovative solutions, such as the new Ultra Fast and Large Volume splitless techniques, delivering unprecedented performance.

Ultra in speed of analysis
Featuring a linear heating rate of up to 1200 °C per minute, the TRACE GC Ultra is able to dramatically decrease sample run times in a wide range of GC applications from crude oils, pesticides and hydrocarbons determination, to drug screening and food and flavors characterization. Combined with conventional GC or MS detectors, this technique enormously increases lab productivity without compromising analytical resolution, precision or reliability.

Ultra in performance
The new Large Volume splitless technique, only available with the Ultra platform, extends the sample injection volume of conventional GC methods without requiring additional investment, further training, or the need to revalidate methods. This new capability results in dramatic increases in sensitivity, without incremental sample preparation costs in a large array of trace determinations, and is extremely easy to set-up and operate with a standard split/splitless injector.

Ultra in system usability
The new TRACE GC Ultra also supports a complete range of injectors, such as the BEST PTV, unique cold on-column inlets, and detector solutions for conventional GC and GC/MS applications. Its unique ability to provide in-series, staked or parallel configurations of up to three detectors featuring different selectivity, provide additional flexibility to lab operations. Dedicated turnkey analyzers for chemical and petrochemical applications complete the powerful TRACE GC Ultra product offering.

Ultra in system automation
Two new application notes illustrate how the proprietary direct column heating technology can decrease the total analysis time to levels unachievable with conventional fast GC analysis. The application notes discuss how the TRACE GC Ultra is able to perform simulated distillation of petroleum products and hydrocarbon index determination in environmental samples in less than two minutes.

High temperature programming, up to 20°C/s, and fast cooling times of approximately one minute, with precise retention time control are key instrument features. The benefits delivered by this technology include a tremendous increase of sample throughput, with analyses performed twenty times faster than before, without compromises in precision.

Focus GC

The FOCUS GC is a gas chromatograph conceived to maximize productivity of QA/QC labs with fast chromatography, yielding high quality results and yet requiring minimum operator training. Compact in size and very affordable, FOCUS GC is the ideal solution for every budget conscious laboratory looking for an instantly productive GC environment.

FOCUS GC - Real workhorse single channel GC
Specifically targeted for routine quality control and high productivity laboratories, the FOCUS GC is a single channel gas chromatograph, available with either FID or TCD. Conceived and built around the "core" of the TRACE GC Ultra's high quality hardware and unique features, it incorporates also new, best of breed electronics. This instrument is therefore to be considered the reference for precision and accuracy of results, as well as a standard for ruggedness for QA/QC and high throughput environments.

STANDARD FEATURES

Compact Size

Small footprint for bench space optimization.

Wide Oven

The accessibility of a wide oven with front opening, permits easy installation of capillary columns mounted on standard diameter cages.

Optimized User Interface

Permits easy control of the main functions of the GC while preventing access to the more critical parameters of the method from unauthorized personnel. In line with the requirements of QA/QC environments.

Automatic Column Characterization

Automatic measurement of the effective column resistance for exceptional column-to-column and instrument-to-instrument Retention Time reproducibility at no additional cost.

Leak Check

Automatic leak check function for routine system control.

Additional Instrument Control

Real time clock programming (with auto-start), instrument start-up diagnosis, real-time system diagnosis, on-line help on each parameter, logbook with deviation records for temperature, local keyboard lock.

Trace GC x GC

Overcome the limitations currently encountered when using conventional GC methods for detailed sample characterization.

Based on orthogonal separation principles, comprehensive GCxGC increases separation power by over a factor of 10 with respect to conventional chromatography. By virtue of this characteristic, this technique not only simplifies sample preparation procedures but also provides higher sensitivity, becoming the most suitable solution for the analysis of target compounds in complex matrices, as well as for detailed sample characterization.

Built on the well established TRACE™ GC Ultra platform, the TRACE GCxGC incorporates all its unique features, as well as inlet and detector technology, allowing it to exploit this technique in the most effective and reliable fashion.

Solid State Proprietary Dual Jet CO2 Modulator

Automatic Column Characterization

Dedicated GCxGC HyperChrom Software

Complete Capillary Injector Range and Injection Modes

Fast Detector’s Electronics (FFID)

Target Applications

Due to its high degree of separation efficiency, the comprehensive GCxGC technique is the most suitable technique for solving problems related to:

Fast and complete sample screening

Determination of low concentration components in complex matrices

Exhaustive sample characterization

HyperChrom GCxGC Data Interpretation Software

For full featured, easy to interpret comprehensive GCxGC information

Color Plot Visualization

3D Visualization

Reconstruction of the First Dimension Chromatogram

GCxGC Quantitation

GCxGC Identification

Automatic component integration and identification as well as automatic component table compiling: data processing can be carried out in seconds even for chromatograms displaying more than 20,000 peaks. Peak grouping by family, standard or customized reports, visual display of the located peaks and 3D rotating peak display are just some of the additional features.

The TRACE GCxGC is configured with a special set-up consisting of two columns displaying different physical properties (“orthogonal” separation). This provides a higher degree of modulator control. The chromatograph's resolving power is increased by a factor of ten compared to conventional GC methods.

The TRACE GCxGC improves both qualitative and quantitative analyses by “ordering” compounds according to their chemical and physical properties. The results are presented in a structured 3-D chromatogram and identification is based on a set of retention times.

The TRACE GCxGC is available in three different versions that can all be upgraded to enable large sample volume introduction:

TRACE GCxGC Split/Splitless/Flame Ionization Detector
TRACE GCxGC Programmable Temperature Vaporization (PTV)/Flame Ionization Detector
TRACE GCxGC On-column/Flame Ionization Detector

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