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|Articles|October 1, 1999

LCGC North America

  • October 1999
  • Volume 17
  • Issue 10
  • Pages: 930–937

Development of Gas Chromatography Instruments at Shimadzu

The guest authors summarize the history of this Japanese scientific instrument company and events in the development of its products.

Guest authors Nagayanagi, Takimoto, and Saito review the development and manufacturing of gas chromatography instrumentation from Shimadzu Corp., Japan's leading scientific instrument company. They also provide a brief history of the company to explain the company's design and marketing philosophies.


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Figure 2. Split injection used to measure triplicate test of MTBE, hexane, o-xylene, and 1-methylnaphthalene comparing different solvents (methanol, methylene chloride) and column insertion distances starting with 0.5 mm, 5.0 mm, 10.0 mm, 15 mm, and 20.0 mm. Methanol had the best performance at the 5.0 mm insertion distance and methylene chloride looked slightly better at the 0.5 mm. We would still recommend not going below the 5.0 mm manufacturer recommended insertion distance.
Revisiting insertion distance for methanol and methylene chloride in GC analysis and confirming that insertion depth strongly affects response and reproducibility.