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Course accreditation

This course has been approved by the Â鶹AV for purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

What will you learn on this course?

The 5-day Complete GC & GC-MS course is built from the 3-day Practical Essentials of GC & GC-MS and the 2-day GC & GC-MS Clinic courses to provide a complete training solution enabling you to understand your Gas Chromatograph or GC-MS instrument, develop applications, troubleshoot & maintain it.

This course covers all the practical theory you need to know about Gas Chromatography and its related techniques including gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; gases and plumbing; sample introduction like split, splitless, on-column and large volume injection techniques; data analysis; and sampling techniques like headspace, SPME, pyrolysis, thermal desorption, purge & trap, liquid-liquid and solid-phase extraction.

It also looks at how to choose the GC & GC-MS techniques for an application, set-up the instrument, how to develop & optimise methods and then finally how to maintain & troubleshoot the instrument, techniques and method. It also takes a brief look at advanced techniques to help solve those very tricky applications including Selective Discrimination, Deconvolution, Two-Dimensional GC (GC+GC & GCxGC) and Chemometrics.

This 5-day course is Recognised by the Â鶹AV for purposes of Continuing Professional Development.Members of the Â鶹AV will receive a 15% discount on this course if booked at least 4 weeks in advance.

A FREE glossary on GC & GC-MS is provided with this 5-day course!

Learning Outcomes

You will learn the importance of good chromatography
You will learn how to select and use the GC carrier gas
You will learn about various injection techniques and when to use each
You will learn how to select a GC column
You will learn the operation and selection of an appropriate GC detector
You will learn about the principles and components of the mass spectrometer
You will learn how to undertake data analysis
You will learn about different sampling techniques for GC
You will learn strategies for method development
You will get an introduction to GC & MS advanced techniques
You will recognise areas requiring maintenance on the instrument
You will learn the logical steps of instrument troubleshooting

Who is this course for?

The Complete GC & GC-MS course is for those who have basic knowledge of gas chromatography and would like to greatly enhance it, learning the practical theory about all available GC & GC-MS techniques.

For complete beginners it is advisable to first attend the 1-day Absolute Basics of GC & GC-MS, as you may be overwhelmed by the amount of information on this course.

You can attend the 5-day course all at once or, learn about the techniques in the first 3 days, go back to the lab to implement the knowledge and then join us at a later date to attend the more advanced 2-day GC & GC-MS Clinic course.

If you would like to improve your knowledge in a particular area and don't want to attend a 5-day course you can choose to attend individual days from the Complete GC & GC-MS course.

Course Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK | see individual dates for other venues | arrange this course onsite
Number of days: 5
Price: £999 + VAT (for courses held in the UK)

Special offers (discounts cannot be combined):

Early Bird: Book at least 12 weeks in advance and receive a 10% discount for this 5-day course.
Student: Discount of 10% for this 5-day course (valid student ID card required) if booked at least 4 weeks in advance.
Â鶹AV Member: Discount of 15% for this 5-day course (membership number required) if booked at least 4 weeks in advance.
ChromSoc Member: Discount of 10% for this 5-day course (membership number required) if booked at least 4 weeks in advance.
Warwick alumini: Discount of 10% for this 5-day course (membership number required) if booked at least 4 weeks in advance.
Group Discount: 4 colleagues from the same company can attend for the price of 3, when attending the same Anthias course.