A gas chromatography guard column assembly is disclosed including a guard column having an inlet and an outlet. The guard column is disposed in a coil having a column coil aspect ratio of less than 15. A gas chromatography system is disclosed including an oven cavity, a heater assembly, an inlet, a guard column, an analytical column, and a detector. The guard column is in fluid communication with the inlet and is disposed in a guard column coil. The analytical column is in fluid communication with the guard column and is disposed in an analytical column coil. The detector is in fluid communication with the analytical column. The analytical column coil has an analytical column coil central axis aligned with a central axis of the heater assembly, and the guard column coil has a guard column coil central axis remote from the central axis of the heater assembly.

A device for separating one or more molecules of interest in a liquid specimen including a monolithic body defining a fractionation column. The column includes an inlet opening at a proximal end of the fractionation column; an outlet opening at a distal, opposite end of the fractionation column; a solid phase chamber positioned between the inlet opening and the outlet opening; a specimen introduction area adjacent a proximal end of the solid phase chamber; an analyte exit area adjacent a distal end of the solid phase chamber; an inlet chamber adjacent the inlet opening that tapers into the specimen introduction area; and an outlet chamber that extends from the analyte exit area to the outlet opening. A metered amount of solid phase packed within the solid phase chamber between a first porous frit and a second porous frit of the solid phase chamber.

A liquid junction assembly for providing a flow connection between two tubular conduits. The assembly includes respective bodies configured to define elongated passages of respective first and second cross sections to receive and locate the respective tubular conduits, a plate with at least one hole therethrough of a third cross section smaller than the first and second cross sections, and a seat for the plate, defined in a face of one or both of the bodies. The bodies and the plate are assembled with the plate in the seat and the elongated passages and the hole aligned along a common axis.

A GC fitting for an inner tube of a heated transfer line of a gas chromatography interface probe, the fitting comprising a first section comprising a substantially cylindrical projection for fluid connection to a GC source in use, and a second section having a larger radius than the first section in at least one direction, the second section being provided with at least one flat.

A chromatography column fitting (30) includes a body member (40) configured to be received at an end of a chromatography column (18), the body member (40) defining an axially extending open bore (42). An insert (44) is received in the bore (42), the insert (44) defining a flow conduit (46) opening out into an operatively inner end (50) of the insert (44) to be in flow communication, in use, with an interior (34) of the chromatography column (18), the operatively inner end (50) defining a bearing surface (52). The bearing surface (52) bears against contents (36, 38) at the end of the chromatography column (18) to minimise dead volume between the flow conduit (46) and the contents (36, 38) of the chromatography column (18).

A jet injector for a GC that includes a body, a skirt extending away from the body; and a bore that extends through the skirt and the body to create an inlet and an outlet for the jet injector.

A large number of kinds of azo compounds which are representative hazardous substances in fiber products are divided into two groups. The compounds included in the first group are detected by an MRM measurement by a tandem mass spectrometer unit (12) in a measurement section (10) while a two-liquid gradient elution under an acidic condition is performed in a liquid chromatograph unit (11), using an aqueous ammonium acetate solution as mobile phase A, and a mixture of acetonitrile and an aqueous ammonium acetate solution as mobile phase B. On the other hand, the compounds included in the second group are detected by an MRM measurement while a two-liquid gradient elution under a neutral or weakly basic condition is performed using an aqueous ammonium bicarbonate solution as mobile phase A and acetonitrile as mobile phase B. An exhaustive quantitative analysis for major azo compounds can be achieved by performing the two analyses for the same sample. An efficient test with a shortened analysis period can thereby be performed.

A GC interface assembly for a heated transfer line of a gas chromatography interface probe, the heated transfer line comprising an inner tube and an outer tube, the GC interface assembly comprising: a GC fitting securable to said inner tube, the GC fitting comprising a first section comprising a substantially cylindrical projection for fluid connection to a GC source in use, and a second section having a larger radius than the first section in at least one direction, the second section being provided with at least one flat; and a GC end cap securable to an outer tube, the GC end cap comprising an aperture which slidably receives the second section of the GC fitting in use such that the GC fitting is substantially constrained to liner movement with respect to the GC end cap.

A jet injector for a GC that includes a body, a skirt extending away from the body; and a bore that extends through the skirt and the body to create an inlet and an outlet for the jet injector.

Provided is a supercritical fluid apparatus including: an analysis flow path through which a mobile phase flows; a back-pressure control valve provided at a downstream end of the analysis flow path to adjust pressure in the analysis flow path to a predetermined pressure; a small-diameter pipe connected to the outlet of the back-pressure control valve, having an inner diameter allowing internal pressure to be maintained at a pressure higher than the atmospheric pressure; a large-diameter pipe connected to a downstream end of the small-diameter pipe, having a larger inner diameter than the small-diameter pipe; and a large-diameter pipe heating part for heating the large-diameter pipe.