SpectraLab Scientific offers training courses for all sorts of HPLC Maintenance & Troubleshooting.
The training course is designed to provide hands-on experience and solid understanding performing routine maintenance and troubleshooting on HPLC systems from varied manufacturers, helping to make informed choices. The topics to be covered are briefly outlined as below:
Instrument problems and identifying the issue
Common Maintenance & Operations
- Maintenance of Pumps
- Maintenance of Autosamplers – Rheodyne valves, seals, metering devices, syringes etc.
- Maintenance of detectors – lamp replacement, flow cell clean-up
Common Calibration and Operations
- Calibrating pump flow
- Calibrating Autosampler volume
- Calibrating detector wavelength and response
- Testing lamp intensity
- Testing flow cell cleanliness
- Calibrating column temperature
Chromatographic problem solving
- Baseline problems
- Peak shape problems
- Retention time drift
- Peak area irreproducibility