Smallest GC device available from Torion

The GUARION-7™ device from Torion Technologies is regarded as the world’s smallest and most portable capillary gas chromatograph–toroidal ion trap mass spectrometer.

The system features a low thermal mass capillary GC with high-speed temperature programming and a miniature toroidal ion trap MS, with a nominal unit mass resolution over a mass range of 50–500 Da. The new battery operated system is totally self-contained, weighs less than 28lb, has an on-board helium GC carrier gas supply cartridge (2500 psig, 90 cc), and is hand-portable.

Users may find the product suitable for its rapid, highly sensitive, and selective detection of a wide variety of compounds including chemical warfare agents, explosives, environmental pollutants, and hazardous substances.

Torion Technologies is a chemical measurement instrumentation company founded in 2001 to develop, manufacture and market the world’s smallest and most advanced chemical separation and detection systems.

Meanwhile, the company also offers its CUSTODION-10 solid phase micro extraction (SPME) syringe, capable of quick and easy sample introduction into gas chromatographs.

Target analytes in liquid samples or dissolved solid samples are rapidly trapped on the active coated surface of the SPME fibre, according to Torion Tecnologies, with the push button trigger on top of the syringe enabling the SPME fibre to be withdrawn into a protective sheath both after sampling and while being inserted into the injection port of a gas chromatograph.