GO GREEN: Reduce Solvent Consumption and Increase Productivity

In today's economic climate, with fluctuating prices and fewer resources, it is important to consider future supply-demand relationships. In 2009, supply problems led to a shortage of acetonitrile, which saw the price increase ten-fold. In order to safeguard your lab against unforeseen fluctuations in the market, and save time, energy and money, a system such as the ACQUITY UltraPerformance LC^® (UPLC^®) may suit your liquid chromatography needs. When compared to traditional HPLC technology, UPLC systems deliver improved ionization efficiency, resolution, robustness and superior performance at higher pressures. This leads to high-quality, reproducible analyses in considerably less time.

How Much Solvent Could you Save?

Many laboratories from around the world have adopted the ACQUITY UPLC^® for their analytical needs, as a sustainable and high-quality LC solution. Laboratory dependent organizations have saved a total of 10 million liters of mobile phase, which adds up to over $1bn in savings using UPLC^® and UHPLC. This equates to the following volumes*:

• Four Olympic swimming pools
• Seven Washington Monuments
• Eight US Capitol Rotundas
• Ten International Space Stations

*Assuming systems are performing at ~10,000 samples per annum with solvent priced at $100 per liter.

Choose the Right Technology for your Needs:

1. The ACQUITY UPLC H-Class System: Provides the flexibility and simplicity of automated, quaternary solvent blending and a flow-through-needle injector to deliver the advanced performance expected of UPLC separations.

2. The ACQUITY UPLC M-Class System: The system of choice for the highest quality nano to microscale UPLC^® separations, for every laboratory performing sample-limited LC/MS analyses

3. The ACQUITY UPLC I-Class System: The system of choice for high performance analytical scale LC/MS, offering superior low system dispersion and operation up to 18,000 psi (1,241 bar).

4. The ACQUITY UPC2^® System: The first convergence chromatography system, utilizing liquid CO₂ as the primary mobile phase and applying the performance advantages of UPLC to supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC).

5. The ACQUITY APC^TM System: The first new tool in 50 years to support the development of advanced polymers and other plastics.

6. The PATROL UPLC^® System: In real-time, can detect and quantify all the analyses in complex, multiple-component in-process samples and final product at the point of production.

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