TGA thermal analyzer MAXIMUS

Hyphenating TG-IR-GC/MS is the most powerful and complete approach to material deformulation. The specialist will be able to capture many different information from each instrument. This will lead to characterize deeply an unknown mixture to determine its primary components and identify additives or contaminants. This information may be needed, for example, to evaluate a competitor’s product or to determine compliance with regulations. Due to thermal degradation of the sample, the gases produced in the TGA furnace are transferred to the FTIR gas cell thanks to a hot interface. Here a spectral analysis takes place. Then hot gases will be further flowed to GC for chromatographic separation and to the MS detector for unambiguous identification. The GC/MS injection block was designed to avoid capillary cloggings, carry over and cold spots which could affect the analysis. The system allows real-time analysis thanks to the GC instrument which can separate and detect very low levels of material in complex and unknown mixtures. The system is configured for Active Flow Principle, ensuring the same mass of gases flowing in the FTIR cell and GC-valve over all time of the thermal experiment. Active flow technology: real quantitative analysis with no FTIR signals overlapping; Heated gas cell and SilcoSteel® transferlines up to 350 °C; FTIR Zero gravity cell design: no more fouling or dirtiness phenomena; Customized adapter for every TGA model and automatic triggering; Triggered GC injection valve heated up to 350 °C; SRA Kinetic software directly controls Agilent Cary 630 FTIR: time resolution analysis and live quantitative data.