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Clarus 680 GC

The Clarus® 680 GC is designed for fast-paced, high-volume laboratories that require fast analytical cycle times. It maximizes throughput with the fastest injection-to-injection time of any conventional gas chromatograph. The Clarus 680 GC incorporates many other PerkinElmer innovations that provide unprecedented operational simplicity and outstanding flexibility while removing the barriers to productivity that can arise with…

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A very sophisticated instrument

 

Average Rating 5.0

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Solvents purity, assay of raw materials, oil and ghee profile

A very sophisticated instrument with high sensitivity, run up to 100 samples in one time

Review Date: 10 Feb 2022 | PerkinElmer

Very reliable easy to use instrument.

 

Average Rating 5.0

Application Area:

Essential oil analysis

Very robust easy to use instruments. The only downside is the TotalChrom software used to control the instrument is not very sophisticated, even though there is a manual integration option it is very basic.

Review Date: 1 Oct 2021 | PerkinElmer

Great accuracy and speed of analysis.

 

Average Rating 4.7

Application Area:

Solvents analysis

Clarus 680 GC is a great fast analysis system for solvents analysis. We typically have a sample analysis load of about 40 samples per 8 hours of shifts. Clarus 680 GC helps in cooling down time reduction so the maximum number of samples can be analyzed. The accuracy of this GC system is perfect and we get great results of RSD.

Review Date: 13 Nov 2020 | PerkinElmer

Not as expected and GC not efficient in our lab.

 

Average Rating 1.0

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Simple gas analyses and residual solvents

Not happy with this system. Use with Empower 3 is very difficult and after sales care does not help. Method transfer for routine residual solvent analysis were either very difficult or not completed for several of our raw materials.

Review Date: 26 Oct 2020 | PerkinElmer

As good as previous OR GCs.

 

Average Rating 4.3

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Routine material and finished product analysis

Following on from a tradition of great GCs, this one is great, versatile and easy to use.

Review Date: 26 Oct 2020 | PerkinElmer

Rugged instrument with merely OK software.

 

Average Rating 4.7

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Calibration for determination of %ethanol in solutions using flame ionization detector

I was impressed with the reproducibility of the instrument. The flame jet is more resilient than those offered by other manufacturers. The software is not the best but the instrument makes up for it.

Review Date: 4 Mar 2020 | PerkinElmer

Some aspects are user-friendly, some are not

 

Average Rating 4.0

Application Area:

Cholesterol analysis

The software that comes with it is not the most user-friendly. I much prefer Waters' Empower. Instrument maintenance is pretty user-friendly. Results are reproducible as long as syringe and liners are appropriately chosen and changed regularly.

Review Date: 4 Mar 2020 | PerkinElmer

Simple and very effective piece of kit for the bench!

 

Average Rating 5.0

Application Area:

Analyse enzyme activity and residuals

Love this machine! Methods and sequences so easy to set up on Total Chrom! The auto sampler is great, usually running 167 samples the sample holder holds 108, but is so easy to pause run and switch vials over. Depending on the individual run time you can just leave to run overnight and results will be there by the morning. Column changing is just easy and PerkinElmer also have videos online to show you how step by step. Changing the septum is also easy! Very simple to lid fit and check gas flow on the touch screen pad too! Great piece of neat kit for the benchtop!

Review Date: 23 Jun 2019 | PerkinElmer

Would by a used Agilent system over a new PE setup.

 

Average Rating 2.0

Application Area:

Environmental analyses

Although the price point was great, the equipment and software did not perform to the standard established by using Agilent equipment.

Review Date: 25 Oct 2018 | PerkinElmer

Recommended!

 

Average Rating 3.0

Application Area:

Pharmaceutical

Clarus 680 has met our expectations with excellent accuracy, even in low concentrations. The operation, column installation and analysis, is easy. It's works very well using the software Empower, considering our needs.

Review Date: 28 Jan 2017 | PerkinElmer

The Clarus® 680 GC is designed for fast-paced, high-volume laboratories that require fast analytical cycle times. It maximizes throughput with the fastest injection-to-injection time of any conventional gas chromatograph.

The Clarus 680 GC incorporates many other PerkinElmer innovations that provide unprecedented operational simplicity and outstanding flexibility while removing the barriers to productivity that can arise with more demanding samples and applications. The fastest temperature programmable inlets available combined with programmable pneumatic control (PPC) provides simple and straightforward solutions to complex analyses such as analysis for methanol in crude oil or determination of pesticides in food.

Its near-ambient performances make the Clarus 680 GC the instrument of choice for the separation of light volatile components or when Large Volume Injection is required to run high-sensitivity GC/MS applications.

Complete instrument control is available through TotalChrom and TurboMass as well as Waters® Empower™ 2 and Agilent® EZChrom Elite™ drivers.

Features/Benefits
Patented high-performance oven - the unique oven design of the Clarus 680 GC provides the fastest available heat-up and cool-down rate, enabling shorter injection-to-injection and analytical cycle times, maximizing your sample throughput and achieve maximum return on your investment

• Its twin-walled oven design with concentric air exhaust* allows the user to achieve greater separation at near-ambient temperatures without the use of special coolants, especially important for the analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
• Fast oven heat-up allows faster chromatography, particularly useful when speeding up the elution of late eluting compounds.
• Fastest available cool-down rate is delivered using forced convection air. This greatly reduces non-productive time between runs.
• Universal Programmable Split-Splitless (PSS) and Programmable On-Column (POC) injectors design enables Large Volume Injection of volatile solvents and cold on-column injections without the use of expensive cooling agents
• Novel Swafer™ micro-flow technology dramatically simplifies complex tasks helping to make the Clarus 680 GC easily used by operators at all skill levels
• Complete instrument control is available through TotalChrom™, TurboMass™ as well as Waters® Empower™ 2 and Agilent® EZChrom Elite™ drivers.

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