New Simplicity® System from Millipore Provides Ultrapure Water When and Where You Need It

Millipore Corporation today announced the availability of a flexible ultrapure water system that can be placed anywhere in the laboratory.

The new Simplicity system is easy to install and produces ultrapure water on demand from pretreated water (Elix® system, distilled, deionized or reverse osmosis water). Designed for scientists who require less than five liters of ultrapure water per day, the system is suitable for the production of mobile phases for chromatographic separations, preparation of blanks and standard solutions for spectrophotometry, spectroscopy or other analytical techniques, as well as buffer preparation for biochemical experiments.

The Simplicity system’s Type I water (18.2 MΩ·cm at 25 °C ultrapure water) provides an economical alternative for laboratories currently using bottled water. Also, as the Simplicity system’s water is produced and used at the point-of-use, the water quality is not subject to contamination from containers or degradation from airborne contaminants. For sensitive applications, such as HPLC, GC and TOC analysis, the system’s built-in dual-wavelength UV lamp (185 and 254 nm) reduces organic contaminants to < 5 ppb. In addition, a range of final polishers is available to provide bacteria-free, pyrogen-free or nuclease-free water, depending on requirements.

The Simplicity system fits easily anywhere in the lab and its integrated, removable reservoir means that no feedwater connection is needed. Maintenance is reduced to changing the SimpliPak™ purification cartridge once or twice a year—a procedure that takes just minutes thanks to the snap-in and-out cartridge. Other system features include a design able to accommodate a wide range of laboratory glassware and an intuitive graphic display that clearly shows system parameters such as water quality, reservoir level and pack replacement information.