A Beginner’s Guide to your GC Columns: Installation, Care, and Maintenance

Whether you are new to practicing GC chromatography or would like a refresher, the installation and care of your GC column is the utmost importance.

Join us as we discuss proper column installation and handling for all Agilent GCs including the Intuvo 9000. We will also address the common modes of column degradation and some of the misconceptions that people have about what column degradation is. Lastly, we will discuss ways that you can protect and maintain your column’s lifetime and performance while minimizing instrument downtime.

Presenter: Alex Ucci (Application Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

In his current position at Agilent, Alex provides application assistance and technical support for sample preparation products as well as GC and LC consumables. Before he joined Agilent in 2014, Alex was a graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University researching the morphology and surface properties of aerosol particles using a wide variety of analytical techniques. He has an MS degree in chemistry.