The Gas Chromatographers’ Training Seminar

Part I: Fundamentals, Columns Selectivity and Injection Techniques

• GC concepts and fundamentals - retention time, efficiency, capacity factor, selectivity and how this influences resolution
• GC / phase selection - how to improve your analytical method by choosing the correct selectivity, including examples and case studies
• Inlets, detectors and injection types
• How to choose the correct accessories for a GC method: liners, septa, ferrule

Part II: Troubleshooting and Method Development

• Troubleshooting - going through procedure, examples and case studies
• Method development and optimisation, how to start a method and how to optimise an existing one, with examples and case studies

Practical skills acquired

This course will enable you to implement GC analytical methods by transferring the parameters from the method to your GC or GC-MS system. In addition you will be able to:

1. Understand what is meant by all the parameters in a GC analytical method.
2. Optimise a GC or GC-MS analytical method, choosing the right column phase and dimensions and the right accessories.
3. Interpret chromatograms obtained from GC analysis and fix most common issues (basic troubleshooting).
4. Understand the basics of GC method development and optimisation.