Specifications

Performance Specifications

Performance Specifications

Table 44

Performance Specification Agilent 1100 Series Quaternary Pump

 

 

 

 

Type

Specification

 

Hydraulic system

Dual plunger in series pump with proprietary servo-controlled variable

 

 

stroke drive, floating plungers and active inlet valve

 

Setable flow range

0.001 – 10 ml/min, in 0.001 ml/min increments

 

Flow range

0.2 – 10.0 ml/min

 

Flow precision

< 0.3 % RSD (typically 0.15 %), based on retention time, at 1 ml/min

 

Pressure

Operating range 0 – 40 MPa (0 – 400 bar, 0 – 5880 psi) up to 5 ml/min

 

 

Operating range 0 – 20 MPa (0 – 200 bar, 0 – 2950 psi) up to 10 ml/min

 

Pressure pulsation

< 2 %amplitude (typically < 1 %), at 1 ml/min isopropanol,

 

 

at all pressures > 1 MPa (10bar)

 

Compressibility

User-selectable, based on mobile phase compressibility

 

compensation

 

 

Recommended pH range

1.0 – 12.5, solvents with pH > 2.3 should not contain acids which attack

 

 

stainless steel

 

Gradient formation

Low pressure quaternary mixing/gradient capability using

 

 

proprietary high-speed proportioning valve

 

 

Delay volume 800 – 1100 µl, dependent on back pressure

 

Composition Range

0 – 95 % or 5 – 100 %, user selectable

 

Composition Precision

< 0.2 % SD, at 0.2 and 1 ml/min

 

Control and data

Agilent ChemStation for LC

 

evaluation

 

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1100 Series specifications

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