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G'day from Perth, Western Australia.

I'm about to move into a newly designed and refurbished lab space to house our LCMS and GCMS instruments along with some 'standard' LC-PDA/ELSD/FLD and GC-FID instruments.

Can anyone suggest any special needs with respect to pre-cleaning such a space prior to moving equipment in, such as what chemicals should be avoided in terms of potential air contamination for mass specs?
What cleaning agents or detergents would be acceptable for such a space?
We do have a N2 generator that draws air form the lab itself, it is not fed by compressed air.

any advice would be much appreciated.

thanks
Greg
Peggsy wrote:
G'day from Perth, Western Australia.

I'm about to move into a newly designed and refurbished lab space to house our LCMS and GCMS instruments along with some 'standard' LC-PDA/ELSD/FLD and GC-FID instruments.

Can anyone suggest any special needs with respect to pre-cleaning such a space prior to moving equipment in, such as what chemicals should be avoided in terms of potential air contamination for mass specs?
What cleaning agents or detergents would be acceptable for such a space?
We do have a N2 generator that draws air form the lab itself, it is not fed by compressed air.

any advice would be much appreciated.

thanks
Greg


Main thing I know is to avoid halogenated solvents as they can damage certain types of N2 generators. Unless you are running volatiles by purge and trap, headspace or SPME, then standard cleaning chemicals should not interfere with the analysis.
The past is there to guide us into the future, not to dwell in.
Thanks for your input James.
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