By Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 07:26 am:

What is the average lifetime of a guard Column? We are using a Shodex OHpak SB-G. We have been using it for two months, I would say 3-4 times a week. We have cleaned it with ammonium chloride and azide but it seems that when we start using it the back pressure shoots up to 800psi. We have a Waters HPLC system.

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By Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 08:05 am:

Maybe you could turn the flow around for a while and see if the pressure is beeing reduced.

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By Ann on Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 07:15 am:

The life time very much depends on what you are injecting on to your column. How clean are you samples? How many samples have you analysed using this guard?