With the addition of the highly flexible and versatile 3100 Mass Detector, Hitachi’s LaChrom Elite ® HPLC system further solidifies its position as the leader in chromatographic analysis for a wide range of applications.
Simple, Efficient and Sensitive Detection of Your HPLC Analyte
The LaChrom Elite® HPLC system, in combination with the Waters® 3100 Mass Detector, provides unmatched selectivity, sensitivity and throughput for improved laboratory productivity.
Seamless integration of the HPLC system and the 3100 Mass Detector with Empower™ 2 control.
Performs SIR for sensitive and selective quantitation, peak tracking and impurity profiling.
Equipped with dual ESI/APCI source as standard, with optional APPI available.
IntelliStart software mode automates hardware setup and method development.
*LaChrom Elite is a registered trademark of Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. Waters and Empower are trademarks of Waters Corporation.
3100 Mass Detector Specifications
IntelliStart™ technology
System parameter checking and alerts
Integrated sample/calibrant delivery system and programmable divert valve
Automated mass calibration
Automated sample tuning
Automated SIR method development
LC/MS System Check—automated on-column performance test
API source
ZSpray™ dual-orthogonal source for robust sampling
Vacuum isolation valve
Tool-free sampling cone removal
Plug-and-play probes
De-clustering cone gas
Software control of all gas flows
Ionization modes
Electrospray—included as standard
ESCi multimode ionization—included as standard
IonSABRE™ APCI—option
Dual APCI/APPI—option
Mass analyzer
Single quadrupole analyzer
Detector
Dynolite photomultiplier detector
Acquisition modes
1) Full scan MS
2) Selected ion recording (SIR)
Flow rates
1) 5 to 1,000 uL/min (ESI)
2) 200 to 2,000 uL/min (APCI)
Scan rate
Up to 10,000 amu/sec in contiuum or centroid modes
Sensitivity
1 pg (5 uL injection of 0.2 pg/uL reserpine at 300 uL/min flow rate yields at response > 50:1 S/N (RMS), for both APCI positive ion mode and electrospray positive ion mode.
Vacuum system
Single, split flow air-cooled Pfeiffer vacuum turbomolecular pump evacuating the source and analyzer
One Leybold Sogevac SV4OBI rotary backing pump
Software
System control via Empower™ 2
Regulartory approvals
IVD, NRTL, and CE
*It should be noted that the above are not standard installation specifications. All 3100 detector instruments will be installed and tested in accordance with standard performance tests. Waters, ESCi are registered trademarks of Waters Corporation. IntelliStart, Empower, IonSABRE, ZSpray, T-Wave, OpenLynx, and QuanLynx are trademarks of Waters Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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