The Axcend Focus LC® is an innovative, fully portable, high-performance HPLC liquid chromatography system that can be transported and used anywhere: inside a laboratory, on an in-line production plant and in the field.
The design incorporates: battery, pump, solvents, waste vessels, column and detector.
The Focus LC® HPLC is small enough to be easily positioned close to the sample source (even in a fume hood or near a pilot plant) and powerful enough to be used in any laboratory. The integrated handle allows for easy movement or transport within the laboratory, to other buildings or in the field.
The system is optimized to operate with low solvent and energy consumption and deliver the performance and reliability needed for maximum confidence in your results.
Benefits of the Axcend Focus LC® HPLC:
Portable: 11% of the weight of a typical capillary HPLC system
Very little space required: 36% of the footprint and 7% of the volume of a typical capillary HPLC system
500- to 1,000-fold reduction in solvent usage and waste disposal (use less than 10 mL of solvent per week and produce approximately the same amount of waste)
90+% lower operating costs No need for large mobile phase and waste containers
186 times “greener” (*applying the Analytical Method Greenness Score calculation, ACS Green Chemistry Institute).
Key Features:
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Compact ~30 x 20 x 20 cm
Lightweight ~8 kg
- Completely self-contained: battery, electronics, mobile phases, pumps, injection valve, column, UV detector and waste collection (all integrated)
- Cartridge system containing column, column oven and UV detector
- Tool-free installation
- Isocratic or binary gradient pumping system
- Up to 10,000 psi operating pressure
- Pump reservoir volume 140 μL
- Flow rates 0.5 – 10 μL/min (99.9997% displacement accuracy at 1 μL/min)
- Fused silica columns (5 – 25 cm length, 150 – 300 μm id, packed with 1.7 – 3.0 μm dp particles)
Injection volumes 4 – 200 nL internal, < 5 μL in external loop
- Single or dual UV absorption LED detectors (235, 255, 275 nm) on column (LOD ~700 ppb on column, 1.2 mm 150 ppb flow cell)
- Efficient control, acquisition, and reporting with AxcendDrive software (or drivers available for: Agilent OpenLab CDS, Agilent Chemstation, and DataApex Clarity)
- AC or battery power (12.8 V/85 Ah Li-Fe-PO4 battery life – >10 hours without warm-up, ~8 hours with warm-up).