Before talking about the choice of SPE cartridge, HAWACH will discuss the SPE cartridge and its capacity first.
About the SPE cartridge and its capacity
SPE cartridge is a sample pretreatment equipment developed from chromatography columns for extraction, separation, and concentration. It is mainly used in sample pretreatment of target compounds in various food, agricultural and livestock products, environmental samples, and biological samples, etc.
The capacity of the SPE cartridge refers to the adsorption capacity of the cartridge packing. For an SPE cartridge based on silica gel, its capacity is generally 1~5 mg/100 mg, that is, the cartridge capacity is 1%~5% of the mass of the packing. The bonded silica gel ion exchange adsorbent packing capacity is meq/g, that is, the capacity of each gram of packing is X milliequivalents. The capacity of this type of packing is usually 0.5 to 1.5 meq/g.
How to choose the SPE cartridge
In short, the selection must be made according to the nature of the sample and the solvent background. Generally speaking, there is no uniform regulation about what solvent to be used for the activation and elution of the solid phase extraction packing. Please refer to the national standard, pharmacopeia, or validated method based on your analysis.
1. Activation: There are two purposes for the activation of the SPE cartridge, one is to infiltrate the packing so that the sample solution can flow through it; the second purpose is to clean the interfering impurities and solvent residues on the SPE cartridge.
2. Sample loading: Let the sample solution flow through the solid phase extraction column to allow the packing to adsorb the target substance. Generally, the flow rate should not be too fast, otherwise, the adsorption is not complete and the recovery rate will below.
3. Washing: It is necessary to choose a suitable solvent, which will not wash off the target product adsorbed on the SPE cartridge packing, but also wash away some interfering impurities. This choice is also based on existing methods and there is no uniform standard.
4. Elution: Choose a suitable solvent to elute the target substance adsorbed on the SPE cartridge packing (most of the time you need to use a test tube to collect). This solvent is also determined according to the specific experimental method and cannot be uniformly specified.
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