Pushing upper temperature limits for WAX columns…

by | Apr 16, 2018

This webinar covers WAX type GC columns, maximum temperature limits, how to protect your column from oxygen and how to reach higher temperatures without sacrificing selectivity.

Want to know what extending the upper temperatures limits of your WAX columns will do for your run times and applications? Watch this presentation to find out...

WAX columns (100 % polyethylene glycol columns), are used for a wide variety of applications, such as industrial chemicals, flavours and fragrances. These columns are used at lower temperatures than polysiloxane columns, but many newer applications require higher temperatures - so what happens when you push these columns beyond their recommended temperature limits?

In this presentation, Vanessa Abercrombie, Gas Chromatography Applications Chemist, Agilent Technologies, USA, will present a new WAX column that can safely achieve upper temperatures of 280/290°C, and provides an explanation of what this will do for your run times. Vanessa will also highlight the applications that you are now able to access.

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Furthermore, you will learn what the Maximum Operating Temperature means, what can happen when it is exceeded, and how to decrease your risk of damaging your WAX column. You will also gain better understanding of how gas quality, thermal stability and column bleed can affect your chromatography.

More about the speaker...

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Vanessa Abercrombie is GC Applications Chemist at Agilent Technologies in Folsom, California, USA. Vanessa has a broad background in GC and GC/MS, including experience as an instrument chemist at Bode Technology in Virginia working under contract to the FBI’s Laboratory Division. Prior to that, Vanessa worked for ETS Labs in St. Helena, California as an Analytical Chemist where she researched and developed quantitative separations by GC/MS and UHPLC for beer, wine and spirits. She holds a Masters of Forensic Science from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Sonoma State University.

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