Hyphenated Techniques for Chromatography (HTC-11)

Following the 10th HTC-symposium which was held in Bruges ( Belgium ) in January - February 2008, HTC-11 will again cover all fundamental aspects, instrumental developments and applications of hyphenated chromatographic techniques.

These include hyphenation between chromatography and detection systems (with focus on mass spectrometry), multi-column (multi-dimensional) chromatography, and the coupling between sample-preparation techniques and chromatographs.

Many aspects of chromatography will be addressesd, including automation and robotization, miniaturization and microfabricated analytical devices, high-pressure and high-temperature LC, and new detection techniques.

There will be special focus on hyphenated sample-preparation techniques (HTSP meeting, see below) and on the design of hyphenated on-line and at-line chromatographic process analyzers and hyphenated systems for high-throughput experimentation.

Application lines
The meeting will be organized along three lines, which are largely programmed in the form of three parallel sessions.
1. Life science, including pharmaceutical analysis, biosystems research, and bioanalysis;
2. Food science, including the analysis of contaminants and residues and of flavor and fragrances;
3. Sustainable society, including environmental science, the chemical and petrochemical industries, and polymers.


Hyphenated Techniques for Sample Preparation (HTSP)

On Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th of January, 2010, a special meeting will be organized to emphasize the great importance of hyphenated systems for preparing and injecting samples. Focus will be on complete, automated systems, which provide solutions to real problems in industry, science and society.

Techniques covered will include extraction techniques (solid-phase extraction, SPE; solid-phase micro-extraction, SPME; liquid-phase micro-extraction, LPME; etc.), special injection devices (e.g. headspace methods; degradation methods, including pyrolysis; derivatization methods) and multi-column methods.

Couplings of sample-preparation devices to chromatographs (e.g. SPE-LC) and to hyphenated systems (e.g. SPME-GC-MS) will both be considered.

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