Techniques/Lachat
Lachat’s QuikChem® 8500 Flow Injection Analysis System features high sample throughput and simple but rapid method changeover. The QuikChem 8500 maximizes productivity in determining ionic species in a variety of sample types, from sub-ppb to percent concentrations. With over 400 methods for environmental, agronomic and industrial applications, including USEPA accepted methods, the QuikChem 8500 will satisfy all your analytical requirements.
IMPROVEMENTS SIMPLIFY USE, SPEED ANALYSIS
The QuikChem 8500 has the following benefits:
- Prepared guaranteed Lachat reagents, for documented USEPA accepted QuikChem methods
- Automatic leak detection/failure alert system—notifies operator when a leak occurs
- Software-controlled heater
- High performance injection valve
- Simplified cable and tubing management
OVER 400 METHOD VARIATIONS AVAILABLE
- Methods complying with USEPA, ISO, and DIN standards
- Customized method development available
- Simple to run in-line preparation methods
- For details, download the Current Methods List
Typical customers for the QuikChem Automated Ion Analyzer include:
- Private testing laboratories
- Municipalities (wastewater and drinking water treatment plants)
- Semiconductor fabricators
- Power generation plants
- Regulatory agencies (federal and state environmental monitoring and department of health labs)
- Industrial quality control laboratories (pharmaceuticals, foods, beverages, feeds, fertilizers)
- Research organizations
- Universities
Typical sample types analyzed by the QuikChem system include
- Wastewater
- Drinking water
- Seawater
- Brackish water
- Ultrapure waters (semiconductor and power generation)
- Soils
- Plants
- Animal feeds
- Fertilizers
- Foods
- Beverages
- Fermentation solutions
- Mammalian cell cultures
- Chlor-alkali cell liquors
Over 450 documented QuikChem analytical methods are available for such chemical species as:
- Alkalinity
- Ammonia
- Boron
- Chloride
- Cyanide
- Hardness
- Iron
- Nitrate
- Nitrite
- Nitrogen (TKN)
- Phosphate
- Silica
- Sulfate