Chromatography Forum

We have a HP 5890 II FID which is refurbished for our use. I work at a racetrack that uses alcohol racing fuel and need to test for accelerates or other additives. I am by no means well versed in the use of FID. Our previous GC was TCD and I was given full reign of use from a Chemistry teacher that used it before me. We are using ChemStation A.10.02 (1757) program to operate the GC. I was given a 'crash course' in operation since I've never used this type of GC before so everything I needed to know was fast-tracked or not given. My knowledge is limited so here is my question(s): -How do you save sample data individually inside ChemStation? After running a sample I get the data screen but I either cannot find the correct sequence of buttons or I am just overlooking them. Do I have to save each sample individually with minor variations to the name of the file or is there another way?
Our Nationals will be starting in less than 2 weeks and top brass wants this to happen yesterday.
Any help will be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance.

WillieBill

You need to assign a different filename for each injection. We've always made a sub-directory for each day's injections, and put the data into there. And when running a Sequence of injections, can have the software name automatically or use your own (up to 8 characters).

Code for autonaming like for 003F0502.D file would be
003 is Vial #3
F is Front detector
05 is 5th line down in the sequence Table
02 is the second injection on that line

Thanks for your reply. It'll take longer since time will be an issue for results but rather take the time than get results mixed up.

Plus, we don't have an auto-sampler. Everything is by hand individually. May make it easier to get the number of the sprint car saved with that sample.