Showing blog posts from 2013
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No.5) – Thermal Extraction
Posted on December 17th, 2013
Thermal extraction is another great GC extraction technique which sits within the multi-instrumental talents of the MultiFlex sample preparation system….
The Analysis of Biomarkers in Crude Oil without Sample Preparation
Posted on December 12th, 2013
Biomarkers are important compounds in the characterisation of crude oil World-wide Biomarkers are a large class of hydrocarbons that are…
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No.4) – Liquid Handling
Posted on December 5th, 2013
Addition of Internal Standards When working with samples, even those needing no sample preparation, there are always some basic liquid…
Dates for the next MultiFlex GCqTOF Workshops
Posted on November 27th, 2013
Last week, on 19th/20th and 21st/22nd November, we ran a series of MultiFlex GCqTOF Workshops hosted by the University of…
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No. 3) – Twister or Stir-Bar Sorptive Extraction and Desorption
Posted on November 19th, 2013
Twister or Stir-Bar Sorptive Extraction (SBSE) was the final great sample preparation invention of the 20th Century. Analytical chemists throughout…
High Capacity Autosampling of Exetainers for Greenhouse Gas Analysis
Posted on November 14th, 2013
All over the World, lots of labs are carrying out research on greenhouse gases, however, a common gripe from analysts…
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No.2) – Hot Injection and Trapping (HIT)
Posted on November 5th, 2013
Performing Hot Injection and Trapping (HIT) Imagine that you are developing a GC-MS method and you find that you are…
What has Big Data got to do with GC-MS?
Posted on October 29th, 2013
The Virtual Chemical Archive? A guest post by: Prof Ally Lewis, National Centre for Atmospheric Science and The University of…
Automating Dilute and Shoot
Posted on October 25th, 2013
The idea behind Dilute and Shoot is to take advantage of sensitivity improvements to reduce the need for sample handling…
Things you can do with a MultiFlex (No.1)
Posted on October 11th, 2013
The GERSTEL MultiFlex is a sample introduction and automation system for GC and GC-MS that is configured to offer the…
Thinking Outside the Box
Posted on October 9th, 2013
The “Box” in this case is an analytical instrument such as a GC, GC-MS or LC-MS and the time to…
Advances in Gas Chromatography IV
Posted on October 3rd, 2013
This excellent one-day meeting is organised every autumn jointly by the Chromatographic Society and the North West Region of the…
Automating Sample Preparation – Thinking Differently
Posted on October 1st, 2013
The Teledyne Tekmar Automate-Q40 “When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail” Just about…
Non-selective Sampling of Volatile Organics – a New Approach
Posted on September 18th, 2013
The GERSTEL DHS Dynamic Headspace Sampler If you are busy with the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile compounds (especially if…
Large volume injection of explosive compounds using the CIS 4
Posted on September 17th, 2013
Explosives can be demanding analytes The analysis of explosives by GC can be very demanding. Explosive compounds can be very…
GC-MS is Suddenly A Lot More Interesting
Posted on September 5th, 2013
For the last 20 years or so the single quadrupole GC-MS has been the main-stay of very many analytical laboratories….
How to Make SPE Work Properly
Posted on August 22nd, 2013
Solid Phase Extraction Cartridges Many labs struggle to get Solid Phase Extraction to give decent results. When using LLE, analysts…
Excellent New Publication on the Analysis of Beverages
Posted on August 20th, 2013
Our good friend and long-standing customer, Dr Darren Caven-Quantrill of Frutarom in Wellingborough has drawn our attention to a useful book…
GCqTOF MultiFlex Workshops
Posted on August 8th, 2013
The analysis of unknowns by accurate mass GC and LC-MS is a hot topic right now; so in the week beginning…
Sampling the Dish of the Day
Posted on July 26th, 2013
Using Analytical Science to Create Food that is Delicious and Healthy In the analysis of consumer products (especially food and…
Analysing for Unknowns – Sample Prep Considerations
Posted on July 11th, 2013
In an earlier post by Paul Roberts on the analysis of unknown analytes by GC-MS, Paul touched upon a point concerning…
QuEChERS Automation – Product Launch Event
Posted on July 4th, 2013
The AutoMate-Q40 prepares food samples for residue analysis There was a time when every laboratory analysing for pesticide residues…
Fully Automated Analysis of Blood Samples
Posted on July 3rd, 2013
One of Anatune’s outstanding successes of the last few years has been our fully-automated LC-MS/MS solution for the analysis of…
Introducing the MPS MultiFlex for Food and Beverage Analysis
Posted on June 25th, 2013
Over the last few years, GERSTEL’s sampling and automation technology has steadily grown to be the first-choice for chromatography sample preparation and introduction within…
Solid Phase Microextraction CD Give-Away
Posted on June 19th, 2013
We have 15 copies of the “Solid Phase Microextraction CD” available to give away!! The CD includes over 1000 references to…
GC/qTOF – the Best Way to Screen for Legal Highs?
Posted on June 12th, 2013
Agilent 7200 GC/q-TOF and GERSTEL Multi-Purpose Sampler How do you analyse for something when you don’t know what it…
LC-MS Sample Prep by Moonlight
Posted on June 4th, 2013
Automated sample preparation works around the clock It is common for labs to run LC/MS around the clock, but in clinical…
GlaxoSmithKline and Anatune Form Innovation Partnership
Posted on June 4th, 2013
I am pleased to report that we have just formed a joint innovation partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) at Stevenage, to investigate ways in…
Screening for Contaminants in Packaging Materials
Posted on May 22nd, 2013
Silvia Kanzler of GERSTEL has just alerted me to this article in “The Column” by Armin Hauk of Intertek Expert…
Workshop – Automated SPE on potable water using GC-QqQ
Posted on May 22nd, 2013
There are several compounds that are currently in the spotlight as potential and actual targets for routine monitoring in potable…
Twister Book Offer
Posted on May 21st, 2013
When I write a post with a book give-away, I always get a big response, so we keep our eyes open and grab any spare copies of interesting publications that…
Sample Introduction for High Performance Mass-Spec
Posted on May 16th, 2013
Hot Injection and Trapping If you are investing in an expensive high-performance GC/MS, it makes no sense to economise…
The Winner of our Pay-Per-Sample LC-MS/MS Prize Draw
Posted on May 15th, 2013
At last month’s Focus Exhibition in York, it turned out to be a busy and successful event for Friiscan and we received 128…
Automating the Extraction and Derivatisation of Fats and Oils
Posted on May 2nd, 2013
The determination of the fatty acid composition of fats and oils in foods involves three stages: The extraction of the…
Screening for Unknowns
Posted on May 1st, 2013
For years, targeted analysis has been very much in vogue. Someone gives you a list of compounds to look for…
Implementing Clinical Mass Spectrometry Systems – Book by Neil Leaver
Posted on April 30th, 2013
I have managed to obtain a few spare copies of this rather useful hand-book that I am happy to give away…
Focus 2013 – A Great Success!!
Posted on April 26th, 2013
Focus* 2013 was a great success with over a hundred people expressing interest in our Pay-Per-Sample LC-MS/MS offering, and we…
Pay-Per-Sample LC/MS at FOCUS in York
Posted on April 11th, 2013
If you would like to get your hands on a new LC/MS – but don’t have the capital; then pay…
Win Three Days Hands-on with an Agilent 7000 GC-Triple Quad
Posted on March 30th, 2013
Maybe you have something you would love to try-out on a GC-triple quad – if only you could get your hands…
The Ultimate GC-MS Problem Solver for High Matrix Samples?
Posted on March 28th, 2013
The practicalities of working with “dirty” sample matrices by GC-MS involve dealing with two related problems: How to resolve analytes from matrix…
ATEX and Matrix Elimination
Posted on March 28th, 2013
In GC-MS, when working with complex matrices, the ability to be able to separate analytes from involatile material upon injection…
Using the GERSTEL MPS to Make Calibration Standards
Posted on March 28th, 2013
For many customers, the GERSTEL MultiPurpose Sampler (MPS) is the autosampler of choice because it gives them access to the widest range of…
Enter the Omni-Sampler…
Posted on March 27th, 2013
Whole air sampling using inert canisters offers significant advantages over sampling with tubes, and labs are beginning to embrace this…
A New Way of Fingerprinting Fats and Oils
Posted on March 27th, 2013
Plant and vegetable oils form an important component of our diet, and are also of great industrial importance as a…
QuEChERS – Is this the Game-Changer?
Posted on March 27th, 2013
For labs that are involved in analysing for residues in food, a heavyweight automation solution has emerged with the potential to not…
Automation in the Chromatography Laboratory – Our Best Programme Ever?
Posted on March 26th, 2013
The agenda for our twin conferences “Automation in the Chromatography Laboratory” is now complete and I am sure that this is the best…
The Automation of Single Drop Micro Extraction
Posted on March 12th, 2013
During a recent MultiPurpose Sampler workshop, a customer asked if they could use the GERSTEL MPS to automate Single Drop Micro Extraction*. After…
Automated IsoTube Analysis with the GERSTEL MPS Sampler
Posted on March 12th, 2013
IsoTube MPS Solution Field collection of natural gas samples at wells or drilling sites combined with analysis by GC-FID/TCD and GC-IRMS…
Join the QQQueue – Collaboration Opportunity
Posted on March 8th, 2013
We now have a GC-triple quad in our application laboratory We recently reported that we had taken delivery of an…
6 Ways to Cut Solvent Usage in Your Lab
Posted on March 6th, 2013
There are plenty of good reasons for working to reduce your labs solvent consumption. Solvents are expensive to buy (and dispose of),…
Pay-Per-Sample LC-MS/MS
Posted on February 27th, 2013
Recently a Consultant Clinical Scientist mentioned to us that their Trust had a well defined process for saving costs, but no…
GERSTEL MPS Workshops Extended to Meet Demand
Posted on February 26th, 2013
Places on our three GERSTEL MPS Training Workshops were all snapped up in record time and so we are adding…
Anatune Events for 2013
Posted on February 19th, 2013
Anatune will be attending various meetings/exhibitions throughout the year and we would love to see you there. So far, we…
Watch a Dual-Head GERSTEL MPS in Action
Posted on February 13th, 2013
Dual-head GERSTEL Multi-Purpose Sampler Here is a link to a video of a Dual Headed GERSTEL MPS. If you are running…
Happy Birthday to Us!
Posted on February 1st, 2013
Anatune is seventeen years old today Anatune began trading on the 1st of February 1996 and so today is Anatune’s…
New GC-QQQ Installed in our Application Lab
Posted on January 30th, 2013
It has taken a while, but we now have an Agilent 7890-7000 GC-triple quad installed and running in our application…
GERSTELIZE your CombiPal
Posted on January 15th, 2013
Until the end of April 2013, we have a great promotional offer on CombiPal-to-MPS upgrades. This offer enables CombiPal users to…