Thermogravimetric analyzer coupled with mass spectrometry
Thermogravimetric analyzer coupled with mass spectrometry
| MANUFACTURER | TA Instruments – Pfeiffer |
|---|---|
| MODEL | Discovery TGA 5500 – ThermoStar Quadrupole MS |
General description:
This equipment enables simultaneous measurement of mass change (thermogravimetric analysis, TGA) and mass spectrometry to analyze the gases emitted.
Characteristics :
TGA 5500
- Temperature range: From ambient temperature to 1,200 °C
- Temperature accuracy: ±1 °C
- Temperature precision: ±0.1 °C
- Heating rate (linear): 0.1 to 500 °C/min
- Temperature rise rate (ballistic): > 1,600 °C/min
- Furnace cooling (forced by air/nitrogen circulation): 1,200 °C to 35 °C in < 10 min
- Sample weight: 1,000 mg
- Dynamic weighing range: 1,000 mg
- Weighing accuracy: ±0.01%
- Resolution: < 0.1 µg
- Weight measurement baseline drift (from ambient temperature to 1,000 °C): < 10 µg
MS
- Mass range: 1–300 amu
- Mass resolution: 0.5 amu
- Sensitivity: < 100 ppb (gas-dependent)
- Ionization source: Electron ionization
- Detector system: Dual (Faraday and secondary electron multiplier)
- Sample pressure: 1 atm (nominal)
- Ion detection using multiple probes: 500 channels/s
- Transfer line temperature: 200°C
- Transfer line: 2.0 meters, flexible
- Filaments: Dual
- Capillary: Quartz
- Capillary size: I.D. = 0.15 mm
To use this equipment
The equipment available is accessible to the academic and industrial research community.
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