Automated Analysis of Nitrosamines in Water System 

Ellutia is working with local water and environmental companies to develop a screening tool based on the 800 series Thermal Energy Analyser (TEA) and automated sample prep systems for the analysis of nitrosamines in water.

This proposed customised system uses a modified dual rail CTC Combi-Pal. The first rail carries out sample preparation including Solid Phase Extraction (SPE), pre-concentration and drying of the sample using a custom large volume solvent handling system, SPE Cartridges and an automated evaporation system. The Second Rail takes the prepared samples and injects them onto a TEA-GC system for screening. Intelligent custom software then passes any samples flagged as positive for compounds of interest above a set level or presence of unidentified peaks onto a GC-MS for further analysis.

The System is being developed at The Ellutia research facility in Cambridgeshire for release in 2013. Ellutia will be looking for test partners once a prototype is available, and invites any potential users to contact us to give their input and discuss their requirements at this early stage of the product development.

Please contact Ellutia at [email protected]