Shimadzu Corporation, a leading analytical instrumentation global major, has developed a new GCMS-TQ8030 triple quadrupole gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. The instrument offers speed, accuracy and ease-of-operation to scientists.

GCMS-TQ8030 achieves the highest sensitivity specification in its class for multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) measurements by GC/MS/MS, as well as for scan and SIM measurements by GC/MS. The instrument’s high-sensitivity analysis allows a wide variety of measurement modes, including MRM, scan, combination scan/MRM, neutral loss scan and others.

The number of chemical substances that can harm the environment continues to increase. Chemists need to measure these contaminants quickly and accurately, but sample pretreatment and interference from complex matrices can be problematic. This is where the new instrument’s which is embedded with the Shimadzu UFsweeper technology, helps  minimizes collision cell length and provides high-CID efficiency and high ion transport speed. Further, the UFsweeper accelerates ions out of the collision cell by forming a pseudo-potential surface, preventing any drop in signal intensity or cross talk, even at ultra-fast measurement speeds.

The system comes equipped with Advanced Scanning Speed Protocol (ASSP), an internal protocol that optimizes ion transmission parameters during the scan acquisition process.

The GCMS-TQ8030 also has an ecology mode that reduces the power consumed in analysis standby mode by 36 per cent. Ecology mode eliminates unnecessary power consumption by the GC, MS and PC, and it also decreases the consumption of carrier gas. When used over one year of operation, ecology mode reduces power consumption by 26 per cent and carbon dioxide emissions by about 1.1 tons, according to the company.

Other key features are the twin line MS system eliminates need to swap columns. An automatic adjustment of retention time (AART) function easily adjusts retention times and MRM event times. The availability of electron, chemical and negative chemical ionization. The EasysTop, which enables users to perform maintenance on the injection port without venting the MS, for drastic reduction of maintenance time; and the GCMS solution (analysis, browser and post-run analysis programmes).