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The Automated Sample Preparation and Analysis of a Pharmaceutical Cream using the Focus Sample Processing Robot

The extraction of active ingredients from pharmaceutical products, especially creams, can often be a long and tedious process involving many steps and using strongly acidic and basic reagents. An automated e ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 18th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

The Focus Robotic Sample Processor as a Tool for the Multiple Analysis of Samples using Complementary Techniques

The Focus is a multifunctional instrument and can be used for the automated preparation and injection of samples using many techniques, for example SPME, headspace, liquid-liquid extraction, thermal desorptio ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 18th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

The On-line VOC Analysis of Industrial Effluents using Ambient Headspace

In a world of ever lowering detection limits and stringent relative standard deviations (RSDs) it is often easy to forget that for some analyses these are not necessary. In the case of monitoring industrial ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 18th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

The Measurement of Free and Total Peppermint Oil in a Yeast-based Micro-encapsulation System

Fluid Technologies' Micap™ is a yeast-based micro-encapsulation system for volatile food flavours and other components including pesticides and pharmaceuticals. The yeast used for encapsulation is grown conti ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 18th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

Petrol Range Organics In Soils, Sludges And Wastewaters by Headspace GC-MS

Most PRO methods quantify the petrol range organics by indiscriminately integrating the area between two points, this area being calibrated against a petrol or other suitable standard. There are numerous poss ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 18th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

TPHs in Wastewaters using the Focus Robotic Sample Processor

Traditional liquid-liquid extraction of wastewaters for TPH (Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons) generally requires large samples i.e.1L to be extracted with an appropriate solvent, the resulting extract concentrat ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 15th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

High Throughput Multi-Residue Screening of Drinking Water using the SPE-DEX and Pegasus GC-ToFMS

In cases of water contamination, an important objective for the water industry is to decrease turn around times of samples and increase capacity. Traditional techniques involve the liquid-liquid extraction ( ...

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High Throughput Screening of VOCs in Wastewaters

Presented here is a high throughput method to enable the fast screening of samples, with a cycle time of 10 minutes, to accurately quantify VOCs in the range 100-2000 ug/L and allow subsequent dilutions for a ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 15th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

The Analysis of Red List OP Pesticides in Food by DMI-GC-TOF-MS

The analysis of target compounds in food substances is usually very difficult, matrices containing fats can be even trickier. The process of extraction and clean-up of the sample can lose target analytes or ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 15th Apr 2011 - 0 comments

Rapid Quantitation of VOCs in Soil & Water by HS-GC-MS

A headspace sampling (HS) method has been developed for rapid quantitation of ppb level contamination in soil and water samples that, within its 5½ minute GC runtime, facilitates determination of > 60 volatil ...

Resource - Susan Gilbert - 15th Apr 2011 - 0 comments