Re: DIY scientific equipment
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:07 pm
I hold chromatography as a hobby besides my career in synthetic chemistry.
Currently I'm building a completely from-scratch GC.
Complete with DIY:
-Injector (septum under a 1/8" swagelok Tee nut works great!)
-packed columns
-solid support/phases
-4-element TCD (made from 1/8 tee's)
Current development work is on:
-micropacked columns
-DIY megabore PLOT columns
-Corona discharge ionization detector
As it stands now it gives baseline sep. of propane, isobutane and butane on 50 cm packed column (paraffin on alumina support). Quite happy with that
Only original parts are septa and carrier flow control.
Currently I'm building a completely from-scratch GC.
Complete with DIY:
-Injector (septum under a 1/8" swagelok Tee nut works great!)
-packed columns
-solid support/phases
-4-element TCD (made from 1/8 tee's)
Current development work is on:
-micropacked columns
-DIY megabore PLOT columns
-Corona discharge ionization detector
As it stands now it gives baseline sep. of propane, isobutane and butane on 50 cm packed column (paraffin on alumina support). Quite happy with that
Only original parts are septa and carrier flow control.