Agilent 6890N Network Gas Chromatograph

Specifications

Dimensions and Average - CSA/Nationally Recognized Test

Column Oven
Laboratory (NRTL): UL 3101
Weight • Dimensions: 28 × 31 × 16 cm
- International Electrotechnical
• Height: 50 cm (19.7 in.) Commission (IEC): 61010-1 • Operating temperature: 4 °C
• Width: 58 cm (22.8 in.) with EPC above ambient to 450 °C
- EuroNorm (EN): 61010-1
inlet and detectors; 68 cm - With LN2 cryo: -80 °C to 450 °C
(26.8 in.) with manual inlets or • Conforms to the following regu-
detectors or with optional gauges lations on Electromagnetic - With CO2 cryo: -55 °C to 450 °C
Compatibility (EMC) and Radio
• Depth: 54 cm (21.6 in.) • Temperature setpoint resolution:
Frequency Interference (RFI):
1 °C
• Average weight: 49 kg (108 lb) - CISPR 11/EN 55011: Group 1
• Maximum temperature ramp
Class A
rate: 120 °C/min (see Table 1)
Environmental Conditions - IEC/EN 61326
• Maximum run time: 999.99 min
• Ambient operating temperature: • Designed and manufactured
• Temperature programming
15 °C to 35 °C under a quality system regis-
ramps/plateaus: 6/7
tered to ISO 9001
• Ambient operating humidity:
• Ambient rejection: <0.01 °C per
5 to 95 percent • Declaration of Conformity
1 °C
available
• Storage extremes: -40 °C to 65 °C
• Line voltage requirements: ±5% Table 1. Typical 6890 GC Oven Ramp Rates
of nominal
Temperature 120 Volt Fast Ramp Rates* (°C/min)
Range Oven Rates Dual-Channel Single-Channel**
(°C) (°C/min)
Safety and Regulatory 50 to 70 75 120 120
Certifications 70 to 115 45 95 120
• Conforms to the following safety 115 to 175 40 65 110
standards: 175 to 300 30 45 80
300 to 450 20 35 65
- Canadian Standards
* Fast ramp rates require power >200 volts at >15 Amps.
Association (CSA): C22.2
** Requires G2646A oven insert accessory.
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• Column bleed compensation stan- Temperature (˚C)
dard for two channels 500

• Typical oven cool-down is shown 450

in Figure 1.
400

350
Heated Zones
• Independent heated zones, not 300
including oven: six (two inlets, 250
two detectors, and two auxiliary)
200
• Maximum operating tempera-
tures for auxiliary zones: 400 °C 150

100
Inlets 50
• Maximum inlets installed: two
0
• Inlets available: 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450
Time (sec)
- Packed purged injection port
(PPIP) Figure 1. Typical oven cool-down rate, 6890N GC.
- Split/splitless capillary inlet
• Total flow setting range: • Available with Gerstel septumless
(S/SL)
0 to 200 mL/min N2 head or Merlin MicroSeal septum
- Temperature-programmable 0 to 1,000 mL/min H2 or He head
cool on-column (PCOC)
PCOC VI
- Programmable temperature
vaporizer (PTV) • Electronic pressure/flow control • Electronic pressure/flow control
- Volatiles inlet (VI) • 450 °C maximum operating • 400 °C maximum operating
temperature temperature
• Accessory for solvent vapor exit
(SVE) with PCOC • Three temperature program rates • Pressure setting range: 0-100 psi
or oven track mode
• Total flow setting range:
PPIP
• Pressure setting range: 0-100 psi 0 to 100 mL/min
• Electronic or manual
• Total flow setting range: • He or H2 carrier gas
pressure/flow control
0 to 100 mL/min
• Very low volume for
• 400 °C maximum operating
pre-volatilized sample connection
temperature PTV to capillary columns
• Pressure setting range: 0-100 psi • Electronic pressure/flow control
• SilcoSteel® coating for high
• Total flow setting range: • 450 °C maximum operating surface inertness
0 to 100 mL/min temperature
SVE
• Adapters included for 1/4-inch • Three temperature program
and 1/8-inch packed columns, ramps • Attaches to PCOC to permit
and 0.530 mm capillary columns large-volume injections
• Temperature ramp rates
0.1 to 720 °C/min • Electronically controlled, inert,
S/SL
three-way valve allows solvent
• Pressure setting range: 0-100 psi
• Electronic or manual venting
pressure/flow control • Total flow setting range:
• Includes software for method
0 to 200 mL/min N2
• 400 °C maximum operating optimization
0 to 1,000 mL/min H2 or He
temperature
• Pre-assembled retention
• Cryogenic cooling fluid: LN2
• Pressure setting range: 0-100 psi gaps/vent line/analytical column
(down to -160 °C) or LCO2 (down
(0-150 psi optional) for easy installation
to -65 °C)

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 - Retention gap = 5 m, 530 µm • Linear dynamic range: 105 (±5%) • MDL: <20 pg S/sec, <0.9 pg P/sec
with dodecanethiol/tributyl-
- Precolumn = 2 m, 250 µm
Micro-ECD phosphate mixture
- Analytical column = HP-5 MS,
• Electronic pressure/flow control • Selectivity: 105 gS/gC, 106 gP/gC
30 m, 250 µm
• Equipped with hidden anode and • Dynamic range: >103 S, 104 P
high velocity flows for contami- with dodecanethiol/tributyl-
Detectors nation resistance phosphate mixture
All detectors include electronic • 400 °C maximum operating
pneumatics control and electronic MSD
temperature
on/off for all detector gases. See MSD Specifications, "Agilent
• Makeup gas types: argon/5%
Detectors available: 5973 Mass Selective Detector," Publi-
methane or nitrogen
cation (23) 5965-1366E.
• Flame ionization detector (FID) • Radioactive source: <15 mCi 63Ni
• Thermal conductivity detector
(TCD)
• MDL: <0.008 pg/sec lindane Electronic Pneumatics
• Dynamic range: >5 × 105 with Control (EPC)
• Micro-electron capture detector lindane
(micro-ECD) • Up to 13 EPC channels for inlets,
• Linear dynamic range: >5 × 104 detectors, or auxiliary gases
• Nitrogen-phosphorus detector with lindane
(NPD) • Pressure may be adjusted by
• Data acquisition rate: up to increments of 0.01 psi
• Single- or dual-wavelength flame 50 Hz
photometric detectors (FPD) • Atmospheric pressure sensor to
compensate for altitude and
• Atomic emission detector (AED) NPD
ambient temperature variation
• Mass selective detector (MSD) • Electronic pressure/flow control
• Pressure/flow programming
• Available for packed/capillary ramps: up to three
FID columns or optimized for
• Detectors provided with EPC on
• Electronic pressure/flow control capillary columns
all gas flows (carrier, makeup,
• Available for packed/capillary • 400 °C maximum operating and support gases)
columns or optimized for capil- temperature
• Inlets are available with EPC on
lary columns • MDL: <0.4 pg N/sec, <0.2 pg all gas flows (carrier and split
• 450 °C maximum operating P/sec with vent gases)
temperature azobenzene/malathion
• Carrier and makeup gas settings
mixture
• Flame-out detection selectable for He, H2 , N2 , and
• Selectivity: 25,000 to 1 gN/gC, argon/methane
• MDL: <5 pg carbon/sec as 75,000 to 1 gP/gC with azoben-
propane using N2 carrier and • Flow or pressure setpoints on
zene/malathion mixture
0.29-mm id jet each inlet or detector parameter
• Dynamic range: >105 N, >105 P screen
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• Linear dynamic range: <±10%, 10 with azobenzene/malathion
with N2 carrier and 0.29-mm id • EPC settings included in Agilent
mixture
jet 6890 and Agilent ChemStation
• Data acquisition rate: up to
• Data acquisition rate: up to • Automated carrier has constant
200 Hz
200 Hz flow, or linear velocity, when
capillary column dimensions are
FPD entered into the 6890
TCD
• Electronic pressure/flow control
• Split/splitless and PTV inlet; flow
• Electronic pressure/flow control
• Available in single- or sensor for control and storage of
• 400 °C maximum operating dual-wavelength versions split ratio
temperature
• 250 °C maximum operating
• MDL: <400 pg propane/mL He temperature
carrier (MDL may be affected by
laboratory environment.)

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Inlet Modules - Accuracy: ±3 mL/min NTP or 7% • Keyboard control of the Agilent

of setpoint automatic liquid sampler (ALS)
• Pressure sensors:
- Repeatability: ±0.35% of • Storage of nine methods
- Accuracy: ±2% full scale setpoint
• Storage of five ALS sequences
- Repeatability: ±0.05 psi - Temperature coefficient:
• Binary-coded decimal input for a
±0.20 mL/min NTP per °C
- Temperature coefficient : stream selection valve
±0.01 psi/°C
• Context-sensitive online help
- Drift: ±0.1 psi/6 months ALS Interface Module
• Flow sensors: • 7683 ALS Interface standard.
Provides power and communica-
Maintenance and
- Accuracy: <±5% depending on tions for up to two 7683 auto- Support Services
carrier gas matic injectors, one automatic
• Service method sets temperature
- Repeatability: ±0.35% of sampler tray, and one barcode
and flows for routine mainte-
setpoint reader.
nance (such as septum or liner
- Temperature coefficient : changes)
±0.20 mL/min normalized Data Communications • Online service manual and parts
temperature and pressure diagrams
(NTP)* per °C for He or H2 ; • LAN
±0.05 mL/min NTP per °C for • Remote diagnostics
• RS-232-C (57,600 baud maximum
N2 or Ar/CH4 is settable from keyboard) • Performance verification
services
• Two analog output channels
* NTP = 25 °C and 1 atmosphere
(1-mV, 1-V, and 10-V output • Early Maintenance Feedback
available) as standard (EMF) for syringe, septa, inlet
liner, and column maintenance
• Remote start/stop
Detector Modules
• Flow setpoint range (mL/min Other Specifications For More Information
NTP):
• Clock time programming For more information on our prod-
- FID/NPD makeup 0 to 100 ucts and services, visit our Web site
• Run deviation log (notes any at www.agilent.com/chem.
- FID air 0 to 800 changes to setpoints or expected
- FID hydrogen 0 to 100 values during a run, saved with
run file in ChemStations) Agilent shall not be liable for errors contained herein or
- NPD air 0 to 200 for incidental or consequential damages in connection
• Control of eight external events with the furnishing, performance, or use of this
- NPD hydrogen 0 to 30 material.
(valves, on/off, or low-level
- TCD makeup 0 to 12 contact) Information, descriptions, and specifications in this
publication are subject to change without notice.
- TCD reference 0 to 100 - Four internal 24-volt connec-
tions (up to 150 mA) SilcoSteel® is a registered trademark of Restek
- Micro-ECD makeup 0 to 150 Corporation
- Two external 24-volt connec-
© Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2002
- FPD makeup 0 to 130 tions (up to 75 mA)
- FPD air 0 to 250 Printed in the USA
- Two on/off contact closures January 15, 2002
(48 V, 250 mA max) 5988-5329EN
- FPD hydrogen 0 to 300