Safety for HPLC users

Every person working in HPLC laboratories knows the smell annoyance caused by solvent vapours coming out of open bottles and solvent reservoirs, especially during summer days with high temperature. But this is only one of numerous consequences of insufficient bottle tightening. Laboratory technicians who constantly breath in the solvent vapours, endanger their health in a harmful way.

For HPLC applications, solvents are often used in a mixture with different components. Evaporation of one or more components with different boiling-points leads to changes in the ratio of the mixture, so that the results of your analysis are hard or even impossible to reproduce.

But how can a solvent reservoir be reliably tightened, while tubings of pumps and HPLC systems are fixed in the bottle? Attempts to seal the reservoirs with aluminium foil or similar materials are not improving anything, because vapours and gases find their way even through smallest gaps and holes.

SCAT Safety Caps offer a reliable solution for this problem. Integrated air valves avoid evaporation of solvent gases and protect HPLC users from health hazards. Safety Caps with an active coal filter unit make safe collecting of HPLC waste liquids possible, so that unfiltered solvent vapours can not evaporate any more.

Make your contribution to environment protection and prevent health hazards for your employees and colleagues – use SCAT Safety Caps.