Reducing costs for environmental companies through advances in automation

Testing for pesticides, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and other semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) traditionally requires labour-intensive sample handling and preparation that utilise large sample and solvent quantities at a considerable cost for our environmental analytical chemistry testing laboratories.

Join this webinar and discover an automated workflow to reduce solvent usage and costs, increase sample throughput, and improve data quality.

In this webinar, Dan Carrier, a specialist at ThermoFisher Scientific, will discuss how liquid-liquid extractions for SVOC analysis can be automated for high throughput environmental testing using the Thermo Scientific TriPlus RSH SMART autosampler coupled to GC-MS. Dan will share customer experiences with automation and a recent collaboration with John Quick at ALS Environmental using Dispersive Liquid-Liquid Microextraction (DLLME) for environmental contaminants. A video will show the instrumentation in action!

Learning points:

• How to significantly reduce labor-time for sample preparation

• How to save costs on solvent usage and reduce waste

• How to improve data quality and reliability through automation

• How to increase confidence in meeting regulatory requirements

Who should attend:

• Environmental and water testing laboratories

• Laboratory scientists and technicians using GC

• Analytical chemistry laboratory managers

Presenter: Dan Carrier (Senior Applications GC & GC-MS Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Dan Carrier is a Senior Applications GC Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific where he is developing analytical methods and providing customer support in GC and GC/MS. He is a strong advocate of Laboratory Automation and he has been working on Automated Sample Preparation methods for many years. Dan has previously worked at GSK and Anatune.

Presenter: Daniela Cavagnino (Product Marketing Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Dr. Daniela Cavagnino received a Master Degree in Chemistry at the University of Milan, Italy. She started her career in gas chromatography at Thermo Fisher Scientific spending several years in the R&D laboratories working on GC technology innovation and more than 15 years in product and marketing management roles promoting GC/GCMS technology and applications.