LECO
Empowering Results
University of Southampton
"In 2019 EPSRC funded our vision for a regional Centre of Excellence (CoE) in 2 dimensional gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. This Regional CoE, initially embracing the Universities of Bath, Portsmouth, Southampton, and Swansea, will significantly drive discovery, characterisation and quantification of new modalities, delivering a step change in capability for detection and identification of new species that cannot be separated and determined by 1D GC alone.
LECO’s Pegasus HRT 4D GC×GC-TOFMS and the benchtop BT4D GC×GC-TOFMS, both with extensive automated sample handling capability were delivered in late 2019 and early 2020. Installation of these state-of-the-art instruments was complicated by Covid-19 and lockdown 1.0. With such complex instrumentation, and application areas, effective training was key; here LECO took the initiative and provided both bespoke local and on-demand online training.
The level of service support and close collaborative relationship with LECO (applications team and account manager) has been first rate. Both systems can now be operated remotely, enabling high level users from across the South West region to access the instrumentation and allow many complex questions to be probed. Our work covers a vast array of application, e.g. petrochemical, environmental and metabolomics. The data sets are rich and complex, yet simplified by a user friendly software interface. Compared to 1D-GC, the 4D systems provide an astonishing number of additional analyte identifications, giving us deeper insight and understanding of the samples. Combining LECO’s high resolution mass spectrometry with comprehensive gas chromatography, multiple sample handling options such as SPME, Pyrolysis and TD along with full automation has created a world class laboratory of which we are all very proud."
The following presentations are available:
LECO Presentation At EURO Fed Lipid 2021
English Language
- "18th EURO Fed Lipid Congress an Expo, 21 October 2021"
Fundamentals on Comprehensive MOSH/MOAH Analysis
English Language
- "Fundamentals on LC-GC Coupling" by Dr. Andreas Bruchmann | Axel Semrau GmbH & Co KG
- "Principles and Instrumentation of GC×GC and ToF-MS" by Prof. Dr. Ir. Hans-Gerd Janssen | University of Wageningen & Unilever
- "LC–GC×GC–ToF-MS/FID: A Powerful Platform for MOSH&MOAH Determination" by Prof. Giorgia Purcaro | University of Liège
Spanish Language
- "Cromatografía Bidimensional Exhaustiva acoplada a Espectrometría de Masas de Tiempo de Vuelo: Características y viabilidad para el control y análisis alimentario" by Lourdes Ramos | CSIC- IQOG
- "Contaminación MOSH / MOAH. Verificación mediante GC×GC-TOF-MS" by Silvia Losa | SGS Berlín
Our latest online presentations for MOSH / MOAH Analysis are now available as an On-Demand session. With these fundamentals you will learn all the ins and outs on the LC–GC coupling, GC×GC and Time-of-Flight MS to be able to determine MOSH and MOAH in food products.
So many factors go into the quality and characterisation of plants and biomass, but many thermogravimetric analyses take so much time. Drying, ashing, and weighing multiple samples takes effort and care just to control for atmospheric effects, much less to actually get precise results that can then be used to analyse the quality and structure of the plants. LECO's TGA801 is an automated thermogravimetric analyser designed to take the time out of the testing.
Available in the following languages:
English, Deutsch, Polski, Español, Français, Русский, Česky, Português, and Italiano
Our latest Online Workshop is now available as an On-Demand session. In this workshop the LECO Inorganic product line together with interesting applicational examples is presented. CHNOS analysis of steel, semiconductors, inorganic materials, powder metals and others are discussed. The theoretical lectures are followed by a practical demo where the instruments are demonstrated and some typical samples are analysed. A questions and answers session finalises the workshop.
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