What’s the secret to take your GC lab to the next level? Find out now.
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This Is How You GC
What’s the secret to take your GC lab to the next level? Find out now.
Results from the Agilent Lab Manager survey Understanding Key Challenges and Pain Points in the Global Laboratory Market indicate that 58%* of lab managers have informed us that increasing throughput and productivity are the most important objectives of their lab. When you understand your lab’s specific GC needs, you’re one step closer to greater analytical accuracy—and better days in the lab.
That’s why we created this quiz. By answering a few simple questions, you’ll gain deeper insights into your analytical and workflow challenges—and how you can overcome them.
How do you GC?
To get a better understanding of your lab, your goals, and what you may need for analytical—and business—success, answer these four quick questions.
How many samples do you run on your GC each week?
How important are GC innovations for increasing your lab’s efficiency? (1 = not important, 5 = very important)
How would you rate the ease of GC operation as it applies to increasing your productivity? (1 = not important, 5 = very important)
How important is the accuracy and reliability of your results? (1 = not important, 5 = very important)
Your results have been ranked in order of their importance to you.
Click any of the colored bars.
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Remember, too, that all four attributes are important to ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of the data generated by your GC instruments.
*Learn more about the Understanding Key Challenges and Pain Points in the Global Laboratory Market survey results.
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What if everyone in your lab could produce results with confidence?
With labs across the world handling up to 5,000 samples every week, there is constant pressure for speed. Training laboratory technicians under such high pressures can seem like an insurmountable challenge.
Agilent GC systems feature built-in help—customized for the touch screen or browser interface—along with installation guides, user manuals, safety manuals, and site-preparation documents. Users can even access tutorial videos, quick-start guides, and maintenance instructions. And online resources, such as the Agilent YouTube Channel and Agilent Community, are always just a click away.
To learn how to simplify operations for experts and nonexperts alike, download our new e-book.
Coupling two planar face seals together with a torque driver ensures a leak-free seal—with no second guessing or overtightening. In addition, built-in automatic leak detection can take a measurement at any time to make sure that the connections remain leak free. Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC can even log your leak tests to document that the seal was made and maintained properly.
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Put the intelligence inside Agilent smart GC systems at your fingertips. Our full-function touch screen provides at-a-glance system configuration, allowing users to update methods, perform maintenance routines, and check instrument status.
This unique, stainless steel GC column nut delivers a finger-tight connection—without expensive upgrades, adapters, or tools. An innovative design maintains a leak-free seal even after hundreds of injections, so you can save time, reduce background noise, and achieve more reliable results. Plus, a locking collar lets you lock the column in place, allowing for accurate, repeatable column installations.
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- Self Tightening Column Nut Installation—Inlet & Detectors
- Self Tightening Column Nut Installation—MS Interface
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Your skills transformation starts here. Agilent University helps you unlock the full potential of your Agilent instruments with affordable, effective training—delivered in the format that fits your needs. No matter how it’s delivered, Agilent training gives you and your team the skills to maximize the return on your Agilent instrument investments.
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Agilent e-Familiarization materials let you learn on demand and at your own pace, and are included with all new Agilent instruments and software. Your Agilent service engineer will use these materials to tailor the Familiarization service to the topics that are most important to you.
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Ready to change your definition of ROI?
Calculating return on investment (ROI) typically involves multiplying a short-term benefit over the lifetime of the investment. But this method underestimates the impact that truly transformative innovations can have on your bottom line.
Agilent has a powerful new metric: return on innovation. By providing savings and efficiencies that impact every GC function, Agilent GC systems help you maximize profitability and minimize costs.
To find out how transformative innovations can transform your bottom line, download our new e-book.
Challenging sample matrices, compromised data, and user technical limitations waste both time and resources. Intuvo answers these problems with innovations such as solid-state column heating, ferrule-free seals, and Guard Chip technology that eliminates column clipping once and for all. Intuvo even lets you run ~250 incremental samples per year.
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The Agilent 7693A automatic liquid sampler provides fast, precise injections for Agilent GC and GC/MS systems. Even better, its modular design allows the autosampler to grow with your lab. For example, you could start with a tower and 16 vials, then expand to a 150-vial tray. Or, upgrade to a heater/mixer/barcode reader module. You can even add a second tower for dual-simultaneous injections.
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- Inject New Performance into Your Gas Chromotography
- Agilent Has the Right Sample Introduction Product for Your Lab
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Are you running a simple GC application that does not require extensive data processing or compliance support? Agilent DA Express for the Agilent 8860 GC simplifies data analysis and makes it easy to integrate signal data, build calibration curves, and create reports. In addition, you can view methods, sequencing, and DA Express directly on the 8860 GC browser interface.
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Built around Agilent 5th-generation electronic pneumatic control (EPC), this module bridges two EPC channels to deliver a single carrier gas flow to your GC. So you can use helium for your GC runs, and switch to an alternate gas (such as nitrogen) when your GC is idle. A third EPC channel serves as a purged vent to prevent cross-contamination of gases. In addition, the module is fully programmable using the sleep/wake functions of OpenLab CDS.
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- Converting Helium Carrier Gas GC Methods to Nitrogen and Hydrogen
- Conversion of the Agilent EI GC/MSD Systems from Helium to Hydrogen Carrier Gas
- View How to Combat the Helium Shortage: Making the Switch from Helium to Hydrogen or Nitrogen Carrier Gas
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How can you meet your analytical needs today—and tomorrow?
It doesn’t matter whether your lab is large or small, contract or in-house. Success depends on the timeliness and accuracy of the data generated by your instruments and staff. In fact, 85% of pharma customers surveyed said that they need instruments with greater sophistication and specificity to move medicines through the pipeline more quickly.
That’s why, at Agilent, we innovate with purpose. And every step of the way, your goals become our goals: improving user experience, laboratory operation, and business success.
To learn more about producing quality data the first time… and every time, download our new e-book.
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Built into Agilent 8890, 8860, and Intuvo 9000 GC systems, intelligent self-aware features enable remote connectivity. Autonomous routines help avoid common GC problems before they affect system performance. And self-guided maintenance procedures offer step-by-step instructions.
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- Don’t Let Septum Leaks Ruin Your Day
- Easy Gas Clean Filter Replacement
- Agilent J&W GC Columns with Smart Key
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Agilent smart GC instruments feature core microchannel-based electronic pneumatic control (EPC) architecture. Unique to Agilent, this design protects against gas contaminants—such as particulates, water, and oils—improving reliability and longevity.
Gain the benefits of reduced downtime and sustained instrument performance. Agilent CrossLab Smart Alerts software easily installs on any PC in your lab. No Internet connection is required. The software monitors instrument use and provides email-based alerts, notifying you when to replace key consumables and when to perform preventive maintenance.
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The Agilent Gas Clean filter system delivers high-purity gases to your analytical instruments, reducing the risk of column damage, sensitivity loss, and instrument downtime. Its sensor reads the color indicator and alerts you when the filter needs to be replaced.
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Streamline your lab operations with a single, secure data system that combines chromatography and mass spectrometry into one software platform. Control your Agilent GC, LC, single quadrupole GC/MS, and LC/MS systems—as well as other vendors’ instruments—and save time managing software and training staff.
New tools in OpenLab CDS provide time-saving steps in your analysis, interpretation, and reporting workflows, so you can identify key information and improve turnaround time. Optional built-in technical controls provide peace of mind for labs that need the highest level of data integrity.
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- See the Future Unfold with OpenLab Software
- See How the Future Is Unfolding in Your Lab
- See How the Future Is Unfolding for Your Business
- The OpenLab CDS Story: One Lab. One Software.
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Our CFT low thermal mass devices are oven mountable, inert, and make use of flexible metal ferrules to ensure leak-free connections. They allow GC and GC/MS operators to make reliable, leak-free, capillary connections that increase the type of analyses the GC system can perform.
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- Capillary Flow Technology: GCxGC Flow Modulator
- Capillary Flow Technology: Splitters
- Capillary Flow Technology: Deans Switch
- Capillary Flow Technology: Purged Ultimate Union
- Capillary Flow Technology: Backflush
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Direct connectivity through the browser interface allows users to access an instrument—and its key features—from virtually anywhere.
RTL provides the ability to keep the same retention time even after column maintenance, column trimming. RTL also allows Agilent GC or GC/MSD systems running the same method and nominal column to have the same compound retention times, in the same lab or from lab to lab.
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How does it feel to operate at peak productivity?
It feels great, because you spend less time troubleshooting problems and more time delivering results. It also means that you can plan—and stick to—your budgets—and keep your team highly satisfied with their work. No wonder 65% of lab leaders welcome innovations to increase lab efficiency.
However, you must carefully balance the need for speed and efficiency with the demand for unwavering quality. Agilent smart GCs give you reliable results on location, so you can spend more time on what matters, where it matters.
To start your lab down the path to greater GC efficiency, download our new e-book.
Multiple options are available to accelerate your analyses. For example, adding pillow to the Agilent 8890 GC improves standard oven ramp rates. If you need greater speed, Agilent Intuvo with direct column heating enables oven ramp rates up to 250 °C/min. The fastest heating rates can be achieved with LTM II (low thermal mass) technology for the 8890 GC, which allows a 1,200 °C/min heating rate.
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- Ultrafast Simulated Distillation of Middle Distillates Using ASTM Method D7798 on the Agilent Intuvo Gas Chromatograph
- Quality Control of Fragrance Samples by GC-FID: Method Transfer from the Agilent 7890 GC to the Agilent Intuvo 9000 GC
- Analysis of Distilled Spirits Using an Agilent 8890 Gas Chromatograph System
- Method Translation of HJ679-2013 for Intuvo
- Analysis of Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Environmental Samples Using Ultra-Fast Gas Chromatography
- Fast Analysis of Pesticide Residues in Food Samples Using GC/MS/MS
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Many labs are switching to alternate carrier gases. For example, nitrogen is an inexpensive option when the separation chemistry achieves sufficient resolution. Hydrogen, too, has excellent chromatographic qualities and can increase throughput. The Agilent hydrogen sensor detects leaks early, and puts your system into standby mode, if necessary.
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A GC method translator is built into the method setup window for all Agilent Chromatography Data Systems within the GC SW Driver. It is also available in the browser interface for Agilent 8860 and 8890 GCs, and as a free download from Agilent.
Method translator makes it easy to convert, speed up, and improve GC methods by changing factors such as carrier gas, column dimensions, outlet flow, and detector. You can also use it to optimize or convert GC methods.
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- Analysis of Distilled Spirits Using an Agilent 8890 Gas Chromatograph System
- Method Translation of HJ679-2013 for Intuvo
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The Agilent 990 Mobile Micro GC allows you to analyze gas samples wherever and whenever you need. Configured with up to four GC channels, it provides fast, repeatable, and lab-quality results. It even lets you view your results in full, or reported as true/false.
Plus, the system is equipped with batteries and gas canisters, keeping you independent of gas and power for eight hours or more. An optional mobile license lets you wirelessly connect via phone or tablet and eliminates the need to carry cables and a laptop.
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- Biogas Analyzer Based on the Agilent 990 Micro GC
- BTEX Analysis with the Agilent 990 Micro GC System
- Fast Analysis of Natural Gas Using the Agilent 990 Micro GC Natural Gas Analyzer
- Analysis of Tetrahydrothiophene (THT) in Natural Gas Using the Agilent 990 Micro GC
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When you configure your GC and GC/MS systems for inlet and detector in the back position, our pillow can occupy the front half of the oven. This minimizes the oven volume heated, increasing temperature ramp rates and decreasing cool-down times.
A GC configured with two towers and Agilent OpenLab CDS enables dual-simultaneous injection—saving you time by doubling your sample throughput. You can also maximize sample capacity by adding a sample tray.
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