Overview
Environmental testing is essential to ensure public safety and environmental protection and preservation. As environmental threats evolve, so do compliance standards and regulations. As such, analytical environmental testing laboratories are continually changing, with a need to optimize productivity, maintain sample throughput to ensure holding times are not exceeded, and important results are not delayed, all with reduced cost and training efforts.
A chromatography data system (CDS) needs to meet not just today’s requirements, but tomorrow’s as well, and provide reliable, accurate and precise results, ensuring compliance and minimizing regulatory risks.
What are users saying?
"We have had our [Thermo Scientific] Dionex Integrion HPIC System for a little less than a year and it has made a world of difference to our sulfate analysis. We are so pleased that we are expanding to pick up the [Thermo Scientific] Orion 2295 Phosphate Analyzer and exploring upgrading the machine for low level iodine. Great instrument, great interface. A+++"
- Lab Supervisor, Veolia
Key CDS features
Thermo Scientific Chromeleon 7.3.1 CDS can benefit environmental analysis labs with:
- Industry-leading instrument control for LC, GC, IC and MS – to cover all chromatography and MS detection and quantitation needs in one software
- eWorkflow procedures – streamlining sequence creation and ensuring users follow SOPs while delivering proven efficiency gains
- Connectivity to Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), such as Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS, SDMS, and LES, to manage the complete laboratory workflow
- Full traceability of sample data for auditing compliance
- Dedicated workflows and extension packs for applications such as POPs, Dioxins, HAA, and microplastics
- Built in report templates and flexible report designer, ensuring correct calculations and eliminating the need to export to other software packages
Chromeleon CDS environmental package
Designed to help customers who do environmental analysis using GC-MS, this enables Chromeleon CDS to meet the reporting requirements of the following EPA standard methods:
EPA method | Scope |
|---|---|
524.2, 524.3, 524.4 | Volatile organics in drinking water |
525.1, 525.2, 525.3 | Semi-volatile organics in drinking water |
8260B, 8260C | Volatile organics in solid waste |
8270C, 8270D | Semi-volatile organics in solid waste |
Dioxin and PCB analysis: Advanced internal standard techniques for pollutant quantitation
The complicated matrices found in many environmental, food, and other testing areas give rise to the need for advanced use of internal standards. The analysis of dioxins and PCBs uses isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) with surrogate standards and associated syringe standards with variable amount values. As an integral part of the Thermo Scientific Dioxin Analyzer workflow, Chromeleon CDS provides built in capabilities which include:
- Extensive sample reporting templates with 13C-labelled standards recovery
- Automatic report calculations, eliminating the need to perform them outside the software
Featured resources
Chromeleon CDS: Instruments, intelligence, insight
From constantly changing research and discovery methods, to routine testing and anything in between, Chromeleon CDS streamlines your entire workflow, delivering better results, faster, and with more confidence.
Determining semi-volatiles in drinking water & solid waste
This poster shows an integrated GC-MS workflow solution for the determination of volatiles and semi-volatiles in drinking water and solid waste following the US EPA guidelines using a single CDS.
AppsLab Library of Analytical Applications
Search online by compound, technology, or market specialty for a variety of quick start analytical methods featuring Thermo Scientific products and workflows.
Webinars
Maximizing Return for Routine Environmental Analysis
Part 1: Updating Outdated SVOC Instrumentation
Updated regulatory requirements for routine semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) monitoring can lay the foundation for updating workflows and allow labs to realize the advantage of investing in new technology and its effects on productivity.
Learn how your lab can stay up to date with regulatory requirements and use new technology to improve productivity and lower analysis costs per sample.
Maximizing Return for Routine Environmental Analysis
Part 2: Overcoming Challenges in VOC Analysis
Challenges in VOC analysis can affect the consistency and accuracy of sample analysis data. The impact of bad data can have a huge impact on sample analysis costs.
Learn how updated instrumentation features can overcome these common challenges, help meet new regulatory requirements and improve productivity.
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