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Our Chromatography and GC-MS courses have been
acknowledged as the leading training courses in South
Africa. Many of the people that have successfully
completed these courses are now in senior positions all
over sub-Saharan Africa and even abroad.
Between them, the lecturers share more than 50 years of
experience ranging from the fundamentals of physics and
chemistry to the analysis of trace impurities in high purity
gases, general GC application support, clinical and
environmental analysis to advanced GC method
development, method validation and the design and
building of multidimensional systems for specialised
applications.
Our course material has been developed by ourselves and
the course handbooks are printed in colour for ease of use.
The high quality of this material sets these courses apart
from any other course in chromatography.
We remain flexible in our approach and can accommodate
some specific requirements that may be needed beyond
the scope of the course. All these courses can be presented
at a customer site with suitable infrastructure for practicals
and lectures.
We strongly recommend that out of town participants all
stay at the same Bed & Breakfast, thereby simplifying
transport arrangements.
Revision is handled each morning before continuing
with the course syllabus.
All teas and lunches are included in the course fees.
All courses notes and lectures are presented in English.
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John Swinley worked for a number of years in isotope ratio
determinations by Mass Spectrometry while studying at
the University of the Witwatersrand. After graduation, he
spent a year working in Germany and Switzerland in the
development of mass spectrometers. For many years he
worked in the analytical instrumentation market and one of
his customers happened to be Piet de Coning, who had just
started a laboratory at Medunsa. Together they developed
a training course in Capillary Gas Chromatography which
was present annually from 1995.
Collaborative work undertaken by John and Piet led to
three publications in Journal of Chromatography A
covering different aspects of corrosive gas analysis. In 2003
they were nominated for the Peldev Chairman's Award for
this work. In 2008 John was awarded the Shimadzu award
as Chromatographer of the Year by ChromSA, a division of
the South African Chemical Institute.
John has presented courses in all major centres of South
Africa as well as sub-Saharan Africa. These have been as
varied as specialised courses for the brewing industry in
Kenya and South Africa, to the optimisation of the GC-MS
for forensic chemistry. Several courses have been
presented on the analysis of gases in transformer oil as well
as an in-house course for 21 Nigerian participants for
refinery applications. In all, John and Piet have presented
in excess of 50 courses and have seen many of their
participants progress through their chosen industry.
Piet de Coning graduated from Randse Afrikaanse
Universiteit – now University of Johannesburg as a
biochemist. After working for a number of years in clinical
chemistry applications of GC and GC-MS at Medunsa, he
moved to Necsa where he developed methods and
instrumentation for the analysis of fluorinated compounds
and environmental samples. The work included the
certification of electronic grade gases which had to be
certified for export, in many cases down to sub-ppm
concentrations levels of impurities
When Piet joined Sasol R&D in 2007 one of his tasks was to
establish a laboratory for Gas Analysis. Subsequently he
also worked on methods using GCMS with a Supersonic
Molecular Beam interface to analyse waxes and oils as well
as applications for GC-MSMS in positive and negative ion
chemical ionisation modes. Much of his work at Necsa and
Sasol required method validation and uncertainty
estimation and course participants have an opportunity to
share some of this expertise.
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Certificate courses in gas chromatography
and mass spectrometry
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A prerequisite for the GCMS
course is a thorough knowledge
of capillary GC or ideally atten-
dance of our capillary GC course.
Practical examples and computer
animations are used where
possible. Although, we felt that
the real priority was MS
interpretation, it is impossible to
make sense of a bunch of results
without fully understanding the
analytical technique.
This course has been designed to
cater for all users of mass
spectrometers as well as
potential users. Interactive
spectral interpretation
constitutes nearly half of this
course.
GC-MS Course
The course includes:
MS theory
The ion source
Mass analysers
MS detectors
Vacuum systems
Tandem mass spectrometry
Spectral manipulation
QC and troubleshooting
Tuning
Quantitation
Library searching
Chemistry
Atoms and isotopes
Ionisation
Initial inspection of the
spectrum
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Identifying the molecular ion
Finding the molecular formula
The odd-even electron rule
Loss of the alkyl radical
Rearrangement reactions
Aromatic molecular ions
The Capillary GC course offers a very
“hands-on” approach because our
groups are limited to a maximum of 3
participants per instrument.
Recently the course was modernised
to include the most modern techni-
ques such as comprehensive GCxGC.
The course covers topics such as:
Chemical separations
History
The rate theory
Sampling
Chromatographic system
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Capillary gas chromatography
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Injectors
Sample introduction
Gas solid chromatography
Gas liquid chromatography
Capillary columns
GLC manufacturing, operation and
optimisation
The oven and temperature
programming
General properties of detectors
Mass flow detectors
Concentration detectors
Qualitative analysis
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Quantitative analysis
Optimisation
Data processing
Troubleshooting
Capillary Gas Chromatography:
R 9,000.00
5 days from
11 - 15 May 2015
per person
excluding VAT
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry:
R 8,300.00
4 days from
18 - 21 May 2015
per person
excluding VAT
Courses will be presented at Chemetrix, Midrand
Course Calendar 2013Course Calendar 2015
