The Agilent 8890 GC is offered as a turn-key solution, fully configured and ready for your laboratory. With a variety of detectors and sample introduction methods, this solution is designed for industries that require a reliable and high-performance system for analyzing complex samples. Wasson-ECE Instrumentation partners with Agilent to provide additional customization, installation, and ongoing support services, making the system fully adaptable to your laboratory's specific needs.
What's Included in the Turn-Key Solution:
- Pre-Configured Agilent 8890 GC: Tailored to your specific needs, whether for environmental, chemical, or petrochemical applications. Pre-installed detectors like FID, TCD, ECD, or MSD and many more
- Features the Wasson-ECE Isothermal Auxiliary Oven: Expanding the capability of the 8890 with an extra heated zone and room for up to 5 valves and multiple packed and capillary columns
- Wasson-ECE Custom Configurations: Work directly with Wasson-ECE to customize the system based on your industry-specific requirements. We provide guidance on optimal configurations for unique analytical challenges
- Software Suite: Includes Agilent ChemStation, EZChrom or OpenLAB CDS, pre-configured for immediate use in your specific application
- Consumables & Accessories: GC columns, syringes, vials, septa, and other necessary consumables, pre-selected for your application
- Installation & Calibration: Installation and system calibration performed by Wasson-ECE Instrumentation service engineers to ensure everything is optimized for peak performance
- Comprehensive Training: Hands-on training for your team, conducted by Wasson-ECE's field engineers
- Ongoing Support & Maintenance: Wasson-ECE provides dedicated service contracts and preventative maintenance plans, ensuring that your system operates efficiently over time
Benefits of Turn-Key Solutions:
- Fully Integrated: The system is pre-configured, tested, and ready for use, minimizing your setup time
- Expert Guidance from Wasson-ECE: Customized configurations and installation support tailored to your specific applications
- Seamless Workflow: Everything is included, from software to consumables, so you can focus on your research or analysis
- Continual Support: Ongoing maintenance and expert troubleshooting by Wasson-ECE ensures long-term system reliability and performance
Features:
- Advanced Modular Design: Customize with a variety of detectors, injectors, and configurations to meet specific analytical needs. Up to 4 detectors, 2 inlets, and 10 valves
- Intelligent Software: Features user-friendly software that enhances workflow efficiency with intuitive controls, remote monitoring, and integrated data analysis tools
- Enhanced Sensitivity and Resolution: Designed to deliver high sensitivity and high-resolution separation for complex samples
- Flexible Sampling: Supports split/splitless, headspace, SPME sampling methods and many more
- Multiple Detector Options: Including FID, TCD, ECD, PDHID, SCD, FPD, PFPD, NCD, NPD, VUV, and MSD, for versatile analytical needs
- 7-inch Capacitive Touchscreen: Intuitive interface for system control and monitoring
- 6th Generation EPC: Advanced electronic pneumatic control for superior precision
- Built-in Intelligence: Autonomous diagnostics and system health monitoring
With over 40 years of experience in gas chromatography and a leadership position in analytical instrumentation, Wasson-ECE Instrumentation is uniquely positioned to design and build the applications featuring the 8890 GC.
Unlike competitors, the 8890 GC offers a wide range of customizable configurations with support for multiple detectors and injector options, ensuring that the system can grow with your needs.
Easy to Service Auxiliary Oven:
Valves are placed horizontally with clean plumbing making servicing the 8890 simple and fast.
Superior Software Integration:
The system comes equipped with Agilent's ChemStation, EZChrom, and OpenLAB CDS, allowing for seamless data acquisition, analysis, and remote control, giving users greater flexibility and efficiency in managing samples.
Advanced Performance for Complex Samples:
Offering ultra-low detection limits, high sensitivity, and a variety of detector options (FID, TCD, ECD, and MSD), the 8890 GC is designed to tackle the most challenging analyses, setting it apart from less versatile competitors.
Intelligent Automation:
Built-in diagnostics and 6th-generation EPC provide autonomous system monitoring and optimization.
Remote Monitoring:
Unique browser interface allows system monitoring from any location.
- Oven: Ambient +5°C to 450°C
- Inlet & Detector: Up to 450°C
- Auxiliary Isothermal Oven: Ambient +30°C to 175°C
Pressure Control:
6th Generation Electronic Pressure Control (EPC) for consistent gas flow regulation.
Detection Options:
FID, TCD, ECD, PDHID, SCD, FPD, PFPD, NCD, NPD, VUV, and MSD.
Sample Introduction:
Split/splitless injection, packed purge inlet, cool on-column inlet, PTV inlet, gas and liquid valves, and headspace sampling.
Connectivity
Ethernet, USB, and Wi-Fi options for remote access.
Performance:
Retention time repeatability < 0.008% or < 0.0008 min
Compliance:
Applications compliant with standardized methods including ASTM, GPA, ISO, EN, and more
- Refinery Gas Analysis:
- ASTM D1945/D1946 for C1-C9 hydrocarbon analysis
- Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis:
- ASTM D3710, D5134, D6729, D6730 for gasoline
- Natural Gas Analysis:
- ASTM D1945, GPA 2261, GPA 2286, GPA 2177, GPA 2186 for pipeline gas composition
- Simulated Distillation:
- ASTM D2887, D7213, D7169, D3710, D7096, D7500, D7900, D6352, D7807 for petroleum fractions
- Sulfur Compound Analysis:
- ASTM D5623, D5504, D6228 using SCD detection
- Ethers, Alcohols, and Aromatics in Gasoline:
- ASTM D4815, D5580, D3606 analysis
- Oxygenates in Gasoline Using the Oxygenate Flame Ionization Detector (OFID):
- ASTM method D5599 and EN 1601:2017
- Polymer Analysis:
- Monomer and additive analysis in plastics
- Chemical Process Monitoring:
- Real-time analysis of reaction products and intermediates
- UHP and Good Beverage Grade Gases:
- Medical and beverage grade gases with specialty detectors
- VOC Analysis in Air and Water:
- EPA methods 8260, 8270 for volatile organic compounds
- Pesticide Residue Analysis:
- Multi-residue screening in food and environmental samples
- PAH Analysis:
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in solid and sediment samples
- Dioxin and PCB Analysis:
- Ultra-trace analysis with ECD and MSD detection
- Stack Emission Monitoring:
- Continuous monitoring of industrial emissions
And many more.
- Retention Time Repeatability:
- < 0.008% or < 0.0008 min
- Area Repeatability:
- < 1% RSD
- Temperature Precision:
- ±0.1°C (column oven)
- Pressure Precision:
- ±0.02% of setpoint
- Flow Precision:
- ±0.02% of setpoint
- Dual inlet
- 4 detector maximum
- Control for up to 10 valves
- 7-inch touchscreen interface
- 6th generation EPC
- Standard oven (up to 450°C)
The auxiliary oven that unlocks advanced valve & column configurations for your GC system.
Need
In many gas‑chromatography (GC) applications there is a growing need to extend injection, valve‑ switching and multi‑column capability beyond the standard single‑inlet oven. Without an auxiliary thermal zone, users are limited in how many sample injection valves they can reliably maintain at stable temperature, or how many columns can be integrated into complex applications (e.g., refinery gas, multi‐stream analysis). The Wasson-ECE Auxiliary Oven solves this by providing a separate, temperature‑controlled chamber that enables added injection valves, back‑flush valves, and additional analytical columns under controlled thermal conditions.
- High valve and column‑capacity thermal zone: Supports up to five valves and up to multiples packs and capillary columns.
- Fully integrated with GC controls: This oven mounts on top of the GC system and shares the control interface so that the auxiliary chamber is synchronized with the main oven sequence.
- Designed for complex applications: Ideal for refinery‑gas, petrochemical and process applications where multiple columns and valves need to be housed in a thermal zone to maintain integrity, reduce condensation and maximize uptime.
- Up to 5 valve positions (rotary or diaphragm) and up to multiple analytical columns supported,
- Secondary thermal zone mounted on GC system
- Temperature range up to 175⁰C
- Integration of heated transfer/bridge zone from auxiliary oven to GC column oven.
- Multi‑valve GC systems for refinery gas analysis (RGA) where many injection/sample switching valves plus columns are required.
- Laboratory GC systems where users wish to expand capabilities beyond standard single inlet/one column to heart‐cutting, multidimensional, or multi‑stream analysis.
In one published case the auxiliary oven was used in the Wasson‑ECE RGA solution to host a second thermal zone, enabling up to five additional rotary valves and six columns which extended analysis capabilities far beyond traditional methods.
- Compatible with Agilent 7890/8890 platforms
- Ambient +30°C to 175°C
- Isothermal Auxiliary Oven Precision: ±1.0°C
- Heated transfer line/bridge to GC oven for minimal dead volume and minimal condensation.
- Valve support: rotary and/or diaphragm valve socketing, pneumatic air actuators
- Dimensions with Auxiliary Oven:
- Height: 80.8 cm (31.8 inches)
- Width: 58.2 cm (22.9 inches)
- Depth: 56.9 cm (22.4 inches)
- Weight: ~40 kg (88 lbs) base configuration
- Bench Space: 0.31 m² (3.3 ft²)
Temperature Range:
- Oven: Ambient +5°C to 450°C
- Inlet: Up to 400°C
- Detector: Up to 450°C
- Inlet Pressure: 0-300 psi
- Carrier Gas: Helium, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Argon
Flow Control: EPC (Electronic Pressure Control)
Software Compatibility: Agilent ChemStation, OpenLAB CDS, Third-party software
Oven Range: Ambient +5°C to 450°C
Oven Precision: ±0.1°C
Heating Rate: 0.1-150°C/min (programmable)
Cooling Rate: Up to 80°C/min with optional cryo-cooling
Inlet Temperature: Up to 450°C
Detector Temperature: Up to 450°C
Inlet Pressure Range: 0-300 psi (0-20.7 bar)
Flow Range: 0.1-2000 mL/min
Pressure Precision: ±0.02% of setpoint
Flow Precision: ±0.02% of setpoint
Carrier Gas Options: Helium, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Argon
Agilent ChemStation: Standard GC control and data analysis
Agilent OpenLAB CDS: Enterprise chromatogry
MassHunter Workstation: For GC/MS applications
Third-party Software: LIMS integration available
Dimensions: 19.1 in. H x 21.3 in. W x 22.4 in. D (48.5 x 54.1 x 56.9 cm)
Weight: ~40 kg (88 lbs) base configuration
Bench Space: 3.3 ft² (0.31 m²)
Voltage: Ambient +5°C to 450°C
Frequency: ±0.1°C
Power Consumption:- Standby: 0.4 kW
- Operating: 2.0-4.0 kW (depending on configuration)
- Daily Consumption: ~9.0 kW
Safety: IEC 61010-1, CSA C22.2, UL 61010A-1
EMC: IEC IEC 61326-1, FCC Part 15 Class A
Environmental: RoHS compliant
Method Compliance: EPA, ASTM, ISO, EN, GPA, and custom methods
Bench Space: Minimum 0.5 m² (5.4 ft²) including clearance
Ventilation: Laboratory fume hood or adequate ventilation (6-10 air changes/hour)
Temperature: 15-35°C ambient (±5°C stability recommended)
Humidity: 20-80% RH, non-condensing
Vibration: <0.1g at 10-55 Hz
Power: Ambient +5°C to 450°C
Gas Pressure: ±0.1°C
Gas Consumption:- Carrier gas: 1-50 mL/min per column
- FID: H₂ 30-40 mL/min, Air 300-400 mL/min
Computer: Windows 10/11, 64-bit
Processor: Intel i5 or equivalent (i7 recommended)
RAM: 8 GB minimum (16 GB recommended)
Storage: 500 GB available space
Network: Ethernet connection for remote monitoring
Display: 1920x1080 minimum resolution
D1945
D3710
D6729
D6730
GPA 2261
GPA 2286
D2887
D7213
D7169
D7096
D7500
D6352
D5623
D5504
D6228
D4815
D5580
D3606
D5599 / EN 1601
EPA Method 8260B
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