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Gas Chromatography (GC) is the most popular analytical technique in the world, and all major companies rely on GCs for quality control and research. For that reason, GC problem solving and maintenance techniques are vital to maintain your GC reliability and ensure data quality.

This Gas Chromatography Maintenance & Troubleshooting training course will provide lists of symptoms and errors associated with the GC hardware or chromatographic output, as well as diagnoses of "Not Ready" / "Shutdown" messages and many other maintenance tips and tricks.

Each section describes a problem and provides a bulleted list of possible causes for you to troubleshoot. This Gas Chromatography Maintenance & Troubleshooting training course will also includes common troubleshooting tasks and checks.

 

Program Objctives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and understand a GC problem
  • Develop general troubleshooting strategy
  • Identify Chromatographic Symptoms and troubleshooting
  • Identify Automatic Liquid Sampler (ALS) and Detector Symptoms and troubleshooting
  • Troubleshoot of "GC Not Ready" status

 

Target Participants

  • Chemist
  • Analyst
  • Lab. Technician

Day One: Effective Troubleshooting

  • Tips for Safe Troubleshooting
  • Common Troubleshooting Approaches
  • Eight Problem Categories
  • Troubleshooting Tools
  • Problem Prevention
  • Consumable spares

Day Two: Chromatographic Symptoms

  • Retention time Problem
  • Baseline Problems
  • Contamination or carryover
  • Peak Shape Problems
  • Resolution Problem
  • Column Problems 

Day Three: ALS, Detector and Communications Symptoms

  • Syringe Problems
  • FID Problems
  • NPD Problems
  • TCD Problems
  • FPD Problems
  • Power and Communications Problems

Day Four: GC "Not Ready" and "Shutdown" Symptoms

  • Flow/Pressure Problems
  • Temperature Problems
  • Detectors Problems
  • Valves Problems
  • Column Shutdown
  • Hydrogen Shutdown

Day Five: Troubleshooting Tasks

  • External Leak Check
  • GC leaks
  • Measure a Column Flow
  • Measure a Detector Flow
  • GC Self check
  • When to Change Gas Purifiers

 

Schedule & Fees


Locations & Date
19/05/2024
23/05/2024
Doha
5500$
English
23/06/2024
27/06/2024
Turkey
5500$
English
13/10/2024
17/10/2024
London
5500$
English
01/12/2024
05/12/2024
Dubai
5500$
English

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