Introduction
Gas & Liquid Chromatography and Troubleshooting is a comprehensive course covering the following areas:
- Sample preparation
- Sample introduction
- Sample separation
- Columns
- Detectors
- Data acquisition
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting
Course Objectives
This program is designed to give the participants the capability to:
- Gain the basic theoretical aspects of Gas Chromatography
- Communicate practical information, capabilities and limitations of Gas & Liquid Chromatography
- Gain confidence on the analysis technique, troubleshooting and analytical results evaluation.
Who Should Attend?
- Instrument Maintenance: Supervisors, Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Professionals involved in designing, selecting, sizing, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining systems.
- Process and Process Control Engineering, Technologists, Supervisory personnel, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers engaged in the refining activities who have a minimum of experience and who are required to understand and discuss issues related to their processes.
- Laboratory Service: Technician, Senior Lab. Testers, Team leaders and Managers.
- Operational Planning, Refinery Scheduling Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Oil and Gas Operation (Upstream/Downstream): Filed/Control Room Operators, Supervisors, Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Health, Safety and Environment (HSE): Supervisors, Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Project Management: Supervisors, Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers.
- Commercial, Financial and Insurance Management: Controllers, Senior Engineers, Team Leaders and Managers engaged in the refinery operating and oil production/exploration activities.
- Business, sales, technical, and scientific personnel with limited or no broad refinery operating and oil production/exploration experience, along with technical sales personnel.
- Those involved in selling equipment or supplies to the refinery operations and oil production/ exploration industry.
- Those involved with economic evaluations of refinery operations and oil production/ exploration will benefit from this training course.
- Those involved in marketing, selling refined, final export products will benefit from this training course.
- Persons responsible for chemicals in the hospitality and healthcare sectors.
Course Outlines
Introduction to Chromatography
- The History of Chromatography – GC & LC
- Overview of GC & LC Chromatography
- The Modern Chromatograph
- Liquid Chromatography – The Development Process
- Factors Controlling Retention
- Molecular Forces and Chromatographic Selectivity
- Effects of Stationary Phase Loading on the Performance of a Chromatographic System
- Chromatography Nomenclature
Chromatography Basics
- Basic Chromatography
- Sample Introduction
- The role of sample introduction and injection ports in GC operations
- Injection ports maintenance and its impact on GC performance
- Columns
- The role of columns in GC operations.
- Column selection & maintenance
- How columns can impact GC performance
GC Operation
- Peak Dispersion in a Chromatographic Column
- Detector Selection
- The role of Detectors in GC operations
- Detector maintenance
- How detectors can impact GC performance
- Setup and GC. Operation, Basic steps
- Preparation for operation.
- Sampling Techniques
Data Acquisition and Calibration
- Calibration
- Data Acquisition and Processing System
- Calibration linked to GC performance
Applications and troubleshooting
- Chromatography Applications
- Method Development
- Gas Chromatography
- Liquid Chromatography
- ISO17025 Accreditation Basics
- Laboratory Management & Troubleshooting