Biotech Fluidics has unveiled a new flowmeter kit that provides fast, precise, and reliable validation of the ongoing performance of any HPLC pump.

All HPLC separations are reliant on a stable flow of solvent and consequently require constant performance of the system pump.

Up to now, direct determination of flow rate has been limited to system validation using volumetric flowmeters, or if monitoring is required, by use of Coriolis flowmeters.

Both these methodologies have limitations – volumetric flowmeters integrate over a relatively large volume and are thus not suitable for delivering “real time” flow information and Coriolis flowmeters are unfortunately quite expensive. Based upon a non-invasive, real time thermal sensor, the Biotech Fluidics Liquid Flow Meter offers an elegant solution for HPLC pump performance validation.

The HPLC Pump Validation Kit has been designed to accept raw data generated by the Biotech Fluidics Liquid Flowmeter PC-App and it performs all necessary flow calculations automatically. All data and parameters are automatically validated for fitness of use for validation and a summary report generated which can be stored or printed for hard copy documentation.

The HPLC Pump Validation Kit comes with a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) detailing the whole validation protocol. In addition to pump performance validation, the Kit can be used to monitor transient changes in real-time, including pump pulsations.