Cecil Instruments Offers Reliable Water Testing Instrumentation

Water, that elixir of life. It is all things to everyone; wash with it, drink it, cook with it, cool with it, prepare formulations in it, use it as a huge mass force, analyze with it… Whatever the use, the question often asked is how pure is your water and can you trust your instrumentation to ascertain the purity?

Since 1968, Cecil Instruments has developed many analytical instruments, which can be used in a vast variety of analytical chemistry contexts, including water analysis.

Perhaps the fastest and easiest of techniques to use is UV/Visible spectrophotometry. Cecil Instruments have some thirty seven varieties of standalone spectrophotometers with optional USB PC control. The most popular used for water analysis is the AquaQuest range of spectrophotometers. These versatile spectrophotometers are pre-programmed for a vast range of assays dedicated to water and effluent analysis. They can of course be used for other laboratory applications.

The AquaQuest spectrophotometers provide for fast, convenient, easy and reliable measurements. They may be used with a vast range of accessories, are user programmable with large memories, can be operated in a user choice of six languages and are instantly expandable with powerful E-SEF software packages.

With an ever-increasing focus on the detection of multi-ranges of contaminants and pollutants, to higher sensitivities of detection, analytical chemists are placed under increasing pressures. Despite the wide capabilities of UV/Visible spectrophotometry, there are times when other techniques have to be used. Cecil Instruments can help relieve those pressures, by the use of HPLC and Ion Chromatography instrumentation.

Cecil Instruments offers a very comprehensive range of modular high pressure mixing HPLC in the Adept HPLC range. In addition, modular low pressure mixing quaternary HPLC is offered in the Q-Adept HPLC range. The new Merit HPLC systems offer affordability and incredibly easy use, especially for production/monitoring station settings.

The WaveQuest UV/Visible Ultra Fast Scanning HPLC Detector can be used for both qualitative and quantitative analysis, it offers the advantages of a diode array detector, without the disadvantages. Compared to most diode array detectors, the WaveQuest is up to 100 times more sensitive than a diode array detector. Hence detailed spectral scans and highly sensitive quantitative analyses may be performed simultaneously in the same elution. The WaveQuest detector eliminates the need for two different types of UV/Visible HPLC detector, thus saving time, money and other resources.

The IonQuest conductivity detector has very high sensitivities and exceptionally ultra-low drift. Together with its Cecil reliability and robustness, it brings a new force into the field of Ion Chromatography. This detector may be added to third party HPLC systems and forms the basis of the Cecil modular IonQuest ion chromatography systems. With the additional options of AutoQuest autosamplers, column heater/chillers, a wide range of detectors, post column reactors and customised configurations, EPA compliance is available.

Cecil Instruments’ very own easy to use and comprehensive 21 CFR Part 11 compliance chromatography PowerStream software, has to be seen, to be believed. PowerStream makes life for analytical chemists so much better.

So for analytical measurements you can rely on, trust Cecil, it’s the name you can trust.