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Nitrogen generator, to buy or not to buy
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:33 am
by Jasmine
Hi All LCMS users,
Please advice on the issue above. Some labs use big cylinders of liquid nitrogen while others use nitrogen generators. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Is it really cost effective?
Thanks!
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:51 pm
by MIB_EO
It all depends!
If you only run one LC-MS, with short sample runs, not that frequently then you may get away with cylinders. But they are a pain to change.
A liquid N2 tank, is great, continual reliable high quality N2, but probable more viable if you are running several instruments pretty much all day.
In between an N2 generator works well, and isn't that expensive.
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:49 pm
by MikeD
We are satisfied with a generator for our single instrument. The only issue with ours is low frequency vibration. Things left on the top can vibrate clean off - a service engineer's laptop in our case. We had to put a warning notice on it.
Re: Nitrogen generator, to buy or not to buy
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:03 pm
by mtorrey
Hi All LCMS users,
Please advice on the issue above. Some labs use big cylinders of liquid nitrogen while others use nitrogen generators. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Is it really cost effective?
Thanks!
We use a N2 generator and my biggest complaint is the noise and heat it puts out.
It also depends on what kind of analysis you are going to do. APCI uses a lot of N2.
Mike