API 4000 Site Planning Guide
Customer Site Setup Check List
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Customer Site Setup Check List
Customer Responsibilities
Customer name
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Purchase Order number
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Customer Service Representative
Name and number
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Date
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Requirement
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Preinstallation Action Required
Lab Requirement and Supplies
A moveable bench for the API system or a
fixed bench with 1 m (3.3 ft) of rear clearance
and sufficient space underneath for the
roughing pump(s).
A bench for the data acquisition workstation,
located within 2 m (6.6 ft) of the main console.
One liter (1 L) quantities of HPLC or MS
grade methanol, acetonitrile, and water.
Tubing fittings required to connect any LC
equipment to the API unless the equipment
was sold by Applied Biosystems or was part of
an Applied Biosystems designed and
distributed workstation.
Space for benches and supplies
Gas Requirement
(three separately regulated gas lines with shut off valves and fittings)
Gas 1 and Gas 2 – Zero grade air, delivery
pressure at 100 psig, flows up to 17 L/min.
Source exhaust pump – Oil-free air at
< 50 psig, flows up to 6 L/min (air or N
2
)
Curtain and CAD Gas – UHP nitrogen
(99.999%) or gas generators with impurities
that are known not to negatively impact
performance, delivery pressure at 60 psig,
flows up to 5 L/min.
