SOLVENT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY THAT MAINTAINS FLUID INTEGRITY AND PRE-FORMS GRADIENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210123891A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-29

    申请号:US17143814

    申请日:2021-01-07

    IPC分类号: G01N30/34 G01N30/32 G05D11/13

    摘要: A solvent delivery subsystem for a chromatography device performs relatively low pressure, high flow mixing of solvents to form a gradient and subsequent high pressure, low flow delivery of the gradient to the separation column. The mixing of the gradient is independent and does not interfere with the gradient delivery. To form the gradient, the outputs of an aqueous pump and an organic pump are mixed to fill a storage capillary while a downstream point from the storage capillary is vented to atmosphere. After gradient formation, the vent to atmosphere is closed, the solvent delivery system rises to high pressure, and only the aqueous pump runs for gradient delivery. To maintain integrity of the fluid stream, the solvent delivery system uses feed forward compensation and controls at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of pressure and flow in the conduit means to follow a gradual ramp.