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Automated sample concentrator for trace components

US4500432A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 4, 1983
Grant dateFeb 19, 1985
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Expiry dateOct 4, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N2030/407
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Concentration of the solutes contained in a liquid solvent is effected by passing the solvent through a first trapping means that adsorbs them, flushing the first trapping means with supercritical fluid and reducing its solubility parameter in a second trapping means so that the latter can adsorb desired solutes.

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