Troubleshooting Gas Chromatography Systems - Getting the Best Results from Your Gas Chromatograph
The GC Troubleshooting course is filled.

May 16-17, 2000

This year’s "Hand’s On" course presents a systematic approach to GC set-up, maintenance, and troubleshooting, with emphasis on practical techniques for isolating and remedying problems. The course starts with an overview of troubleshooting styles and general procedures, then covers the major components and subsystems of a generic gas chromatographic system and its accessories, including autosamplers, inlets, columns, and detectors. It presents operating principles, set-up procedures, and failure modes for each along with practical examples. Preventative maintenance is also covered with emphasis on maintaining analysis and results quality. The course discusses optimization of column lengths, flows, and temperatures. It requires no previous theoretical background in GC but instead includes the necessary theoretical information in each section. This course is designed for the new or experienced GC practitioner who wishes to increase instrument uptime and laboratory productivity.

Topics to be covered include:

• Approaches to Getting the Best Results
• Carrier and Detector Gases
• Inlets: Setup and Operation, Problems and Solutions
• Columns: How the column works, Selection, and optimization
• Detectors
• Troubleshooting Baselines
• Autosamplers

Meet the Instructor ...

Dr. John V. Hinshaw earned his Ph.D. (1979) from Duke University in analytical chemistry. He recently left Perkin Elmer after sixteen years, where his last position was GC Technology Manager, to become President and Principal Scientist at ChromSource. The author of over seventy-five publications and three books on GC, Dr. Hinshaw has conducted numerous GC training courses both in the U.S. and overseas. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of LC/GC Magazine and the Journal of High Resolution Chromatography. As the "GC Troubleshooting" and "GC Connections" column editor for LC/GC Magazine since 1988, Dr. Hinshaw has compiled an extensive collection of troubleshooting material that forms the basis for this

Registration ...

To register for the course, complete the website Spring Symposium registration form.