title: A high-throughput three-capillary noise-cancelling viscometer for chromatographic systems.
abstract: This paper describes an analytical three-capillary viscometer detector that eliminates the traditional viscometer "hold-up" volume (commonly found in four-capillary designs) while maintaining cancellation of short-term pump noise and long-term baseline drift of temperature and solvent flow rate that are inherent in chromatography systems. This improvement allows a staggered sample injection approach in chromatography, yielding a significant increase in sample throughput by cutting down the chromatographic run time. It also provides a more robust design as it does not require capillary rebalancing, complex purging, flushing or changing the hold-up volume to accommodate long-term chromatographic use.
authors.affiliation: The Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX 77541, USA. wyau@dow.com
authors.forename: Wallace W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Yau
authors.forename: Rongjuan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cong
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gillespie
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D012984:Software; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D013696:Temperature; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D012997:Solvents