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Maintenance
Minimizing Pump Pulsation
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4. If you were pumping buffered mobile phase through the system, pump HPLC-grade
water on all four channels at a flow rate of 200
μ
L/min for 30 minutes. Empty the
contents of the syringe into a suitable waste receptacle, and then pump an additional
6 mL of water through the LDA.
5. Sequentially pump solvents of increasing polarity through the LDA. The last flush solvent
should be miscible with the mobile phase that you plan to use.
6. Close the purge valve.
7. Retest the pressure variation by returning to the initial conditions that displayed the
problem. Make sure that the backpressure at these conditions is at least 40 bar.
Table 6.
Polarity indexes of various HPLC solvents
Solvent
Polarity index
Isopropanol
3.9
Methanol
5.1
Acetonitrile
5.8
Water
9.0