The Waters Acquity UPLC system provides you with reproducible, dependable and data rich results for challenging separations. This UPLC system features a wide range of flow rates, back pressures and linear velocities, with increased throughput with high efficiency so you get the most for your time and resources. This contained tower uplc system holds a sample manager, column heater, binary solvent manager, and a PDA detector. This ultra-performance liquid chromatography system has a unique sub 2 m particle system that offers 3 times the efficiency of a 5 m system with 70% higher resolution. This higher resolution means more information from more samples in less time. The Waters UPLC system can then run separations at a flow rate 3 times faster than HPLC, without a loss in resolution. This Aquity system contains a PDA Detector, sampler manager autosampler, a binary solvent manager, as well as a solvent and waste tray.
Manufacturer Specification
Solvent Manager
Number of solvents
Up to four, in any combination of two:
A1 or A2 and B1 or B2.
Solvent conditioning
Vacuum degassing (six-channel): one channel per solvent, and two channels for sample manager wash solvents.
Settable flow rate range
0.001 to 2.000 mL/min, in 0.001 mL increments
Gradient profiles
Eleven gradient curves [including linear, step (2), concave (4), and convex(4)] Wet prime Automatic
Maximum operating pressure
103,421 kPa (1034 bar, 15,000 psi) up to 1 L/min, 62,053 kPa (621 bar, 9000 psi) up to 2 mL/min
Composition accuracy
0.5% absolute (full scale) from 5 to 95% from 0.50 to 2.00 mL/mina
Composition precision
0.15% RSD or 0.04 min SD
Flow accuracy
1.0% at 0.5 mL/min
Sample Manager
Number of SBS/ANSI sample plates
Total of two plates, expandable to up to 22 plates with optional sample organizer.
Maximum of 22 microtiter plates, 11 intermediate depth plates, or 8 deep-well (or 2 mL vial) plates:
96 and 384 microtiter plates
48-position 2 mL vial plates
48-position 0.65 mL micro-centrifuge tube plates
24-position 1.5 mL micro-centrifuge tube plates
Maximum sample capacity
768 in two 384-well plates; expandable to up to 8,448 samples with optional sample organizer
Injection volume range
0.1 to 50 L, in 0.1 L increments,
partial or full loop mode, 10 L loop is standard; 1, 2, 5, 20, and 50 L loops
Sample temperature control
4 to 40 C, programmable in 0.1 C increments
Minimum sample required
5 L residual volume at a needle offset of 0, or 22 L at the preset 2 mm needle offset
Column Heater
Columns accepted
Any up to 4.6 mm ID and 150mm long
Temperature range
5 above ambient to 65C (9 above ambient to 194F)
PDA Detector
Wavelength Range
190-500 nm
Flow Cell Options
Analytical Cell 500 nanoliters, 10 mm pathlength
High Sensitivity Cell 2.4 microliters, 25mm pathlength
Additional Prep Fees May Apply