Gas Chromatography

Nexis GC-2030 | Gas Chromatograph

In today’s environment, results are needed regardless of whether the analyst is working in the laboratory, the office, or from home. With the flexibility to accommodate a variety of applications, the Shimadzu Nexis™ GC-2030 supports the analyst’s procedures beyond the laboratory, at virtually any location.

Nexis™ GC-2030 overview

• Delivers the Best Performance Regardless of Location: Laboratories today require faster and higher performance analysis. The Nexis GC-2030 features Analytical Intelligence to help achieve these goals. Clean Pilot, a system conformity test, and LabSolutions™ can provide an automated workflow together with remote operation and monitoring from instrument startup to analysis completion. Automated workflows incorporate the work-style habits of experienced analysts. The result is reliable data collected over extended periods and higher productivity.
• Information at Your Fingertips: Analysts will benefit from the touch panel interface, which features clear graphics that display information instantly whenever needed. The user-friendly interface leaves the operator free to focus on obtaining optimal analytical results.
• Tool-free Column Installation: ClickTek™ connectors* make tool-free column installation a snap. The click sensation felt when finished attaching the column provides a more reliable connection and ensures a better seal under all operating conditions. In addition, a light has been installed inside the oven to brightly illuminate the area at hand, easing the burden on the operator when attaching columns.
• One-Touch Inlet Maintenance: The injection port can be opened or closed without tools by simply sliding the ClickTek lever. Replace the insert, slide the lever and feel the click for a leak-free install every time.
• Clean Pilot Function: During typical GC startup and batch analyses, in order to dispose of impurities remaining within the column, the operator has to implement conditioning by manually raising the oven temperature. Using the Clean Pilot function, conditioning is performed automatically, leading to more stable analytical results while easing the burden of lab work.
• LabSolutions Direct Accommodates Remote Work: LabSolutions Direct is a remote access tool used to control or monitor GC systems via a simple user interface on a commercially available smartphone or tablet. Consequently, analyses can be performed while monitoring the status of instruments from locations away from the laboratory.

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GC-2014 | Gas Chromatograph for Versatile Applications

User-friendly with high cost-performance, the Shimadzu GC-2014 gas chromatograph is an excellent option for routine analysis. It offers great flexibility with support for both packed columns and capillary columns, and includes a self-diagnostics function to prevent downtime and maximize lab efficiency.

GC-2014 Gas Chromatograph overview

Easier to understand, simpler operation

A large LCD displays chromatograms and method parameters. Graphical popup screen that clearly guides operation so that operation errors are prevented. The built-in Help function almost eliminates need for familiarization training.

Self-diagnostics validate that the instrument before injection. Regular diagnosis prevents unexpected downtime.

Expandability to Support all Types of Analysis

Select from four types of injection units and five types of detectors according to the target compounds and analysis objective. Modular injection units, detectors and auto-injectors can be easily added after installing the unit in your lab. Three Injection Units and Four Detectors can be simultaneously installed.

Effective use of valuable column resources is maintained by using the 40-mm pitch glass column the same as Shimadzu GC-7, 9, 12, 14, 15 and 16 Series.

Performance lifted to a higher level

The GC-2014 Series is equipped with the advanced flow controller (AFC) technology. This digital control is standard for not only capillary columns, but packed columns as well. Accurate flow rate control via AFC has higher-level repeatability of retention time and peak area, enabling a higher level of analyses.

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HS-20 NX Series | Headspace Sampler

The Shimadzu HS-20 Headspace Sampler developed as the best solution for volatile component analysis, has been improved and introduced as the NX series. The excellent basic performance and user-friendly design provide a powerful solution for scientists in both research and quality control laboratories.

HS-20 NX Series Headspace Sampler overview

• Ultra-low carryover: The HS-20 NX series uses the isolation gas flow to reduce carryover to 1/10 of conventional models. It supports a wide range of chemical species, including high-boiling point compounds and high-polar compounds, and provides reliable analytical results.
• The Isolation Gas Flow: The isolation gas flow prevents sample diffusion from the vent channel, which has been a problem with conventional headspace samplers. (patent pending) Carryover of highly adsorptive compounds is reduced, eliminating the need for
  repeating blank runs.
• Residual Solvents Analysis in Pharmaceuticals USP <467>: In the residual solvents analysis of medicines, analysis with an aqueous solvent may be performed after analysis with a DMF solvent, but with the HS-20 NX, carryover of DMF is not a problem. HS-20 NX is effective for the analysis of samples with different type of solvents or large concentration differences.
• Excellent reproducibility: High analysis reproducibility is achieved by the sample vial loading from the lower part of the oven. Shimadzu’s unique sample vial delivery system minimizes heat dissipation in the HS oven as the vial enters and leaves the oven, and maintains high temperature stability during repeated analyses.
• High-temperature capability and short inert flow path: The vial oven and sample line can be set to 300 °C and the transfer line can be set to 350 °C. In addition, the sample path is designed to be inert and at the shortest distance, so that adsorption of analytes, including high-boiling compounds, and peak broadening are suppressed.
• Ready to use an alternative carrier gas: The HS-20 NX series with the latest electronic AFC (Advanced Flow Controller) offers highly accurate carrier gas control at constant linear velocity, constant flow, and constant pressure modes. It supports the use of nitrogen and hydrogen as alternative carrier gases and makes it easy to transfer analysis methods.

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GC-2010 Pro | Gas Chromatograph

The Shimadzu GC-2010 Pro represents a new generation in Routine GC. Fast oven heating and cooling reduces the analysis time and allow high sample throughput. Based on high-end GC technology, it combines easy operation with efficient analysis and excellence in sensitivity and precision.

GC-2010 Pro Gas Chromatograph overview

• Flexible lineup for various analysis: Two analytical lines can be operated simultaneously for different applications
  • Achieving excellent reproducibility
  • High-speed analysis
  • Rapid oven heating / cooling
  • Constant linear velocity mode quickly determines separation conditions
  • Gas saver function reduces helium consumption
• Achieving excellent reproducibility: All units including the column oven, flow controller and sample injection unit are comprehensively optimized at the design stage to achieve world-class repeatability of peak area and peak height. The large vaporization capacity ensures excellent repeatability, even when using solvents that are highly volatile upon injection, such as acetone. Long-term stability of retention time is realized by the new room compensation technology built into the advanced flow controller (AFC).
• High-speed analysis: High-speed analysis with narrow bore capillary columns reduces analysis time and improves sample throughput. GC-2010 Pro has excellent flow and pressure control system, which can meet the requirements of rapid analysis with conventional configuration and effectively improve the analysis efficiency.
• Rapid oven heating / cooling: GC-2010 Pro incorporates a double-jet cooling system, which enables the reduction of cooling time from 450℃ to 50℃ in 3.4min, realizing more efficient and rapid cooling. In addition, with the ability of rapid heating, GC-2010 Pro can significantly reduce the analysis time.
• Constant linear velocity mode quickly determines separation conditions: The constant linear velocity mode related to the separation performance is recommended for the carrier gas control and can obtain the optimum separation conditions in the shortest time compared with the previous control method by setting the column inlet pressure and flow.
• Gas saver function reduces helium consumption: Reducing running cost by gas saving is an important issue in GC operation. GC-2010 Pro reduces gas consumption by decreasing of split ratio after injection as well as automatic shutdown functions after finishing all analysis.

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Brevis™ GC-2050 | Gas Chromatograph

“Smaller, simpler, and easier to use – without compromising performance.” That’s the demand from analysts. And that’s why Shimadzu developed the Brevis GC-2050. This new space-saving GC delivers uncompromising analytical performance in a modern yet rugged design, easily meeting the analysis needs of laboratories in a range of industries.

Brevis™ GC-2050 Gas Chromatograph overview

• Space-saving yet expandable design: The compact Brevis GC-2050, with a 350 mm system width, including an auto-injector (AOC™-30i), makes even more use of lab space. Compared to the flagship Nexis™ GC-2030, the system’s width has been reduced by approximately 35 %. At the same time, it is possible to connect additional headspace samplers, a mass spectrometer, and other accessories (available soon), providing the scalability to cover the analytical needs of today’s GC/GCMS users.
• Sufficient GC oven size: Despite its space-saving design, this GC oven does not require a dedicated column, and up to two general capillary columns can be used.
• Remote Display: Even without a monitor on the Brevis GC-2050, you can use the GC Remote Display installed on a PC or tablet to monitor the device status and perform operations.
• ECO design: The Brevis GC-2050 consumes 30 % less power than conventional GCs. It also minimizes helium usage and supports operations with alternative carrier gases. High-performance insulating materials and a smaller oven have eliminated heat loss. As a result, the Brevis GC-2050 achieves about a 30 % reduction in power consumption during analysis compared to conventional GCs.
• Safer and even faster analysis with H₂ gas: The Brevis GC-2050 can be equipped with a hydrogen sensor. Not only does it enable early detection of potential leaks in the oven and maintain a safe standby mode, but if a hydrogen leak occurs, it turns off the main power to prevent an accident. In addition, the GC main unit has an automatic carrier gas leak check function that supports the use of hydrogen carrier gas. Furthermore, a gas selector* can switch the carrier gas to nitrogen after an analysis has been completed to enhance safety. Hydrogen carrier gas enables fast analysis (application example above) and maximizes throughput in the laboratory.
• Automatic remote operation: With Remote Display and LabSolutions™ Direct, GC systems can be accessed from anywhere with a smart device or a PC, dramatically improving the analysis workflow and enabling new ways of working.
• Automating the Procedures of Experienced Analysts, Clean Pilot: Baselines can be unstable during GC startup. The Clean Pilot feature provides quick and efficient automatic conditioning to provide stable analytical results while reducing the burden on laboratory personnel.
• Analysis Starts Immediately under the Optimal Conditions, Automatic Start and Stop Function: The Brevis GC-2050 automatically performs gas and temperature control, allowing the system to shut down and start up unattended. When not performing analysis, the system can be shut down to reduce unnecessary power and gas consumption, thereby reducing running costs.
• Supply Gas Check: When connecting a main and a spare gas cylinder to the gas selector (option), the gas selector will monitor the main gas cylinder pressure and automatically switch the gas supply to the backup line when the cylinder becomes empty. This prevents problems before they occur and allows you to continue analysis with peace of mind.
• Remote operation and monitoring: LabSolutions Direct, a standard feature of LabSolutions, allows you to monitor instrument status and chromatographic signals, start and stop the instrument, and start the analysis from a web browser on a PC or smart device at a remote location.

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