Reserve Your Acetonitrile Stocks & Save Money by Recycling up to 90% of Your Solvent with New SolventTrak

Reduced production of acrylic fibres as a result of the economic downturn is causing a worldwide shortage of the by-product acetonitrile. The reduced availability of the solvent has caused rising prices and difficulty in obtaining new supplies for laboratories worldwide. Now, you don’t need to worry about obtaining this vital consumable for your HPLC applications.

New SolventTrak Solvent Recycler, now available from Anachem, provides a simple, practical, cost effective and environmentally friendly solution to help conserve your acetonitrile supplies. This system can recover up to 90% of your solvent for re-use. It is a solvent conservation system designed to recycle uncontaminated solvents used in isocratic HPLC systems. What's more, it can recycle enough solvent to pay for itself within two months! So you win in three ways, you reduce your risk of having no solvent available, you save money as you don’t need to order more and you help the environment by reducing the need for solvent disposal. Plus, Anachem is offering a £300 introductory discount until 30th April 2009.

Traditional recycling systems use a fixed voltage level (or threshold above baseline) that must be exceeded before peaks can be detected. If the baseline changes, new settings must be applied or contaminants may be recycled instead of being sent to waste. Conversely, pure solvent may be sent to waste instead of being recycled. SolventTrak incorporates a unique integration algorithm to accurately detect peaks in the eluent. This ensures all contaminants are eliminated, even if chromatography system conditions cause the baseline to drift up or down. The clean, uncontaminated solvent is sent back to the reservoir for recycling.

SolventTrak is easy to use and quickly and efficiently installs into any isocratic LC system. There is no need for complex programming and it features automatic performance validation. The system is calibrated to NIST standards and comes with a certificate of calibration giving you complete confidence in its operation.