Modular Chromatography Components
Optimize your entire chromatography workflow with quality components
Experience peak chromatography performance and application flexibility using Waters high quality pumps, valves, and detectors, designed to increase your workflow efficiency and improve results.
From HPLC pumps that are reliable and easy-to-use, to ready-to-deploy valves, to a large portfolio of detection technologies that enable you to analyze a wide variety of compounds, our integrated components complement each other so you can configure the ideal application solution to meet your workflow needs.
Waters purposeful accessories for UPLC/UHPLC, HPLC, Specialty, and Purification systems help your lab run more efficiently and provide high-quality data every day.
Modular Chromatography Components
Overview
- Streamline your chromatography workflow with components designed to automate all of your processes.
- Configure and deploy a modular solution that effectively meets your separation requirements.
- Establish a reliable flow rate through your LC system with a pump matched to your application and analyte complexity.
- Select the right valve to accomplish your laboratory tasks, saving time during set-up and simplifying your sample runs.
- Effortlessly tackle detection challenges with a detection technology that eases your separation scale while helping you achieve analysis goals.
Recommended Use: For improving efficiency and data quality with purification pumps and solvent management, switching valves, and sample management solutions.
1500 Series Binary and Isocratic HPLC Pumps
Waters 1500 Series HPLC Pumps have been designed to meet all of your flow range needs, from low flow to preparatory. Exceptional flow rate across all ranges provides you with precision and accuracy, delivering the chromatographic reproducibility that you need to fully automate all of your processes. With exceptional solvent blending and pulse-free delivery, Waters 1500 Series HPLC Pumps meet your most sensitive application challenges.
Features:
- Precise stepper motor control (48 steps/µL resolution) of dual reciprocating pistons
- Non-circular drive gears for smooth, uniform eluent delivery
- Pumps are compatible with Waters Sample Managers, Detectors, and Waters software controls (Empower QS, Empower Software, and MassLynx Software)
Waters 1500 Series HPLC Pumps:
- 1515 Isocratic HPLC Pump - 100 µL heads, optional injector, degasser, automated seal wash and is designed for routine isocratic applications using columns with an ID of from 2–4.6 mm.
- 1525 Binary HPLC Pump - 100 µL heads, optional injector, degasser, automated seal wash and is designed for isocratic or gradient applications using columns with an ID from 2–4.6 mm.
- 1525 µ Binary HPLC Pump w/Degasser - 50 µL heads, lower internal delay volume, Integral vacuum degasser and optional automated seal wash. It is designed for low micro flow rates for columns with an ID from 1–2 mm.
- 515 HPLC Pump - High precision, reliability, smooth eluent flow, and proven performance, ideal for high-throughput isocratic analyses and reproducible, multi-pump gradient delivery with smooth concurrent-stream blending.
2707 Autosampler
The 2707 Autosampler is a versatile, compact sample management system that makes highly precise and reproducible injections of samples into your LC or LC-MS system. It is ideally suited for laboratories where reduced carryover, maximized repeatability, high accuracy, and application flexibility are of concern.
Features:
- Compact design yet easily serviceable
- High-resolution syringe control for high-precision injections
- Interchangeable fixed-volume sample loops
- Variable-volume partial-loop injection capability
- Optional sample cooling
- Pressure-assisted sample aspiration injection capability
- Use of plates or vials, alone or in combination, for varied sampling formats
- Empower Software and ChromScope v2.1 Software control
FlexInject Manual Dual Injector Module
The FlexInject Manual Dual Injector Module operates with any fluid mixing system, including Waters high-pressure mixing solvent delivery modules (2545 Binary Gradient Module or 1525EF Binary HPLC Pump).
Features:
- Inject small or large sample volumes by simply selecting a valve
- Select an injector and column appropriate for your sample size
- Runs at flow rates up to 150 mL/min
- Easy operation and maintenance
- Mount the module on either side of the delivery systems for easy access
Manual Injector Kit
The Manual Injector Kit is a stand-alone version of the Model 7725i, Rheodyne's Sample Injector for analytical HPLC systems. It provides 3 interchangeable loops for injections ranging from 5 to 200 µL, to ensure flexibility and precision. Use either the partial-filling or the complete-filling method options for sample loop loading.
Features:
- Continuous flow during fluid path connection for error-free changeover
- Convenient internal position switch provides a start signal for data stations or autozero for detectors
- Precise low-volume injections with an optional large volume loops
- Easy access to fittings with wide port angles
Column Heater Compartment and 1500 Column Heater
Separation temperature plays an important role in HPLC since it can influence retention time, selectivity, and peak shape. The 1500 Series Column Heater offers a temperature range of ambient+5 to 60 °C to maintain accurate, consistent column temperature.
Switching Valves
Switching valves are compact, motorized standalone modules that are ideal for switching your LC flow paths. Each module has a unique flow switching pattern designed for certain laboratory tasks.
Waters Valves:
- Solvent Selector Valve - Supports up to six different solvents for isocratic and step gradient applications. Ideal for automated selection of various mobile phase compositions for unattended methods development.
- Two-Position Six-Port Switching Valve - Automates multiple injector and switching tasks for sample enrichment, two-column selection, and sample clean-up.
- Two-Position Ten-Port Selector Valve - Combines injection and sample enrichment. Used in applications with automated switching for sample clean-up and alternating column regeneration.
- Three-Column Selector Valve - Supports up to three different columns for method development and preparative applications. Can be installed in external temperature-controlled column oven.
- Six-Column Selector Valve - Supports up to six different columns for method development and preparative applications. Can be installed in external temperature-controlled column oven. Offers color-coding to distinguish different components of the same system.
- Ten-Position Selector Valve - Used in applications like automated switching among streams. Automates selection for up to ten columns to accelerate methods development and increase column lifetime.
Detectors
Analyzing a wide variety of compounds in applications demands sensitivity, stability, and usability. Waters detectors are optimized for advanced analytical techniques, featuring low dispersion characteristics, simple operation, and high data acquisition rates – and cost-effective maintenance, support, and parts.
Waters Detectors:
- 2489 UV/Visible (UV/Vis) Detector – This versatile, dual-wavelength absorbance detector offers simplicity for HPLC and UHPLC applications, as well as high sensitivity for low-level impurity analysis.
- 2998 Photodiode Array (PDA) Detector - Designed to complement LC and LC-MS systems and improve spectral sensitivity, this detector provides spectral conformation to your absorbance detection methods.
- 2424 Evaporative Light Scattering (ELS) Detector - Increase peak detection confidence with this detector, a complementary detection technique for semi and non-volatile compounds with little or no UV absorbance.
- 2414 Refractive Index (RI) Detector - Achieve high sensitivity, stability, and reproducibility with this detector, ideal for isocratic analysis of components with limited or no UV absorption.
- 2475 Fluorescence (FLR) Detector - Deliver unsurpassed sensitivity and selectivity for quantifying low concentrations of fluorescent target compounds with this detector, whether naturally fluorescent or derivatized with a fluorescent tag.
