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Biography: Giles obtained his MChem master of chemistry degree from Liverpool John Moores University concentrating on analytical chemistry and his PhD from the University of Manchester. Giles has more than 20 years’ experience within the fields of mass spectrometry and the separation sciences working in industry, academia and the third sector. Past roles have included working as director of a multidisciplinary scientific research centre and also working around the world as a mass spectrometry escalation engineer troubleshooting issues with both instrumentation and application method development. Giles also works part-time in the nuclear physics group at the University of Manchester developing novel mass spectrometry instrumentation for ultra-trace analysis of radionuclides. Giles is Technical Director & Founder Trustee of the Recycling Organisation for Research Opportunities (RORO).

Course Outline:
The course covers in detail the parts of the system requiring maintenance and the logical steps of troubleshooting, covering:

LC Maintenance:
Injectors
Columns
Detectors
Valves and seals
MS Maintenance:
Gas supply & plumbing
Vacuum system

Data system maintenance
Maintenance schedules

Troubleshooting areas
Problem samples
Problem analytes
Problem areas:
Mobile phase
LC pump
Autosampler
Column
Sensitivity
Retention time shift
Contamination
Mass spectrometer vacuum

Chromatogram examination

Learning Objectives:
You will learn about each part of the instrument requiring maintenance and why, when maintenance is required and how frequently maintenance is required for each instrument part
and consumable.
You will learn the logical steps of instrument troubleshooting.
You will learn how to examine chromatograms, identify any problems seen and determine which part of the instrument could be the cause and gain practical experience of this process.

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