Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has announced the release of the TD-30 series of thermal desorption systems. These pretreatment, sample introduction units will be available for use with Shimadzu’s new Nexis GC-2030 Gas Chromatograph as well as its entire GCMS product line. With large sample capacities, an efficient workflow, and a robust design, they are ideally suited for the analysis of trace components in such industries as environmental, chemical, food and more.

The TD-30 series consists of two models. The TD-30 is equipped with a 60-sample carousel. The TD-30R has the ability to hold 120 samples, the largest capacity in the industry, making it well-suited to large-volume automated analysis. Both are equipped with a retrapping function that allows split samples desorbed from the tube and loaded into the GCMS to be trapped again for potential re-measurement. An overlap function dramatically improves processing functionality by starting pretreatment of a sample while the previous sample is still being analyzed. The ability to add an internal standard in the TD-30R allows highly accurate, reliable quantitative analysis, even of trace components.