Gas Chromatography Maintenance & Troubleshooting

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Gas Chromatography
Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Important Principles for Effective Troubleshooting

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
29 Sep-03 Oct 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
22-26 Dec 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

Gas Chromatography (GC) is the most widely used analytical technique globally, with all leading companies depending on GCs for quality control and research. As such, mastering GC problem-solving and maintenance is essential to ensure reliable performance and accurate data.

This Gas Chromatography Maintenance & Troubleshooting training course will offer a comprehensive list of symptoms and errors related to GC hardware or chromatographic output, including troubleshooting for "Not Ready" or "Shutdown" messages, along with various maintenance tips and techniques.

Each section highlights a specific issue and provides a bulleted list of potential causes to guide your troubleshooting. Additionally, the course covers common maintenance tasks and checks to help you keep your GC in top condition.

This training course will feature:

  • Common Troubleshooting Approaches
  • Tips for Effective Troubleshooting
  • Problem Prevention
  • Logical step by step solution

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and understand a GC problem
  • Develop general troubleshooting strategy
  • Identify Chromatographic Symptoms and troubleshooting
  • Identify Automatic Liquid Sampler (ALS) and Detector Symptoms and troubleshooting
  • Troubleshoot of "GC Not Ready" status

Designed for

This training course is suitable to Laboratory personnel and other professionals interested in GC who analyzes & dedicated to Oil & Gas operations but will greatly benefit:

  • Chemist
  • Analyst
  • Lab. Technician

Learning Methods

This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes illustrations of logical approaches in addition of graphics, case studies and videos.

The Course Outline

Day One: Effective Troubleshooting
  • Tips for Safe Troubleshooting
  • Common Troubleshooting Approaches
  • Eight Problem Categories
  • Troubleshooting Tools
  • Problem Prevention
  • Consumable spares
Day Two: Chromatographic Symptoms
  • Retention time Problem
  • Baseline Problems
  • Contamination or carryover
  • Peak Shape Problems
  • Resolution Problem
  • Column Problems
Day Three: ALS, Detector and Communications Symptoms
  • Syringe Problems
  • FID Problems
  • NPD Problems
  • TCD Problems
  • FPD Problems
  • Power and Communications Problems
Day Four: GC "Not Ready" and "Shutdown" Symptoms
  • Flow/Pressure Problems
  • Temperature Problems
  • Detectors Problems
  • Valves Problems
  • Column Shutdown
  • Hydrogen Shutdown
Day Five: Troubleshooting Tasks
  • External Leak Check
  • GC leaks
  • Measure a Column Flow
  • Measure a Detector Flow
  • GC Self check
  • When to Change Gas Purifiers

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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