Lecture and Lab Training on Frontier Lab Pyrolysis Products
December 4-6, 2018 in Antioch California
Join Terry Ramus, Ph.D., Rojin Belganeh, Technical & Marketing Director, and Itsuko Iwai, Research Chemist, for 3 full days of lectures and labs. You’ll learn how to quickly characterize materials, optimize parameters, perform precise quantitation, and maintain your Frontier pyrolyzer for quality results in your lab.
- Pyrolysis Demystified
- Hardware Overview
- Pyrolysis GC/MS Use
- Run real samples
- Data review tools
- Sample Preparation
- Method Development
- Materials Characterization & Unknowns Method Map
- Routine Maintenance
- Common Questions
- Universal Applications
- Advanced Techniques
GC/MS Basics
Optional Training on Monday, December 3rd, 2018
Join world renowned professor, author, and mass spectrometry expert, Dr. O. David Sparkman, for an information packed day all about GC/MS. The course is optional to the Pyrolysis User’s Training Course.
- Definition of GC/MS techniques
- Types and components of GC/MS
- Data acquisition requirements
- Columns and injectors
- MS ionization types
- Data Analysis Introduction:
- Classroom Lectures
- Interpretation – nitrogen rule – fragmentation mechanisms
- Introduction to MS databases for identification of unknowns
- Introduction to AMDIS