Summary
In 2004, a state agency with additional duties as a backup lab to the CDC came to Texol with a problem. They owned two ABI LC/MS systems that were less than 3 years old, and which were originally purchased with the Peak Membrane-style Nitrogen generators. The Peak units had already burned up compressors and the decision was made to replace them rather than invest several thousand dollars to rebuild the compressors. The client was also concerned that the nitrogen supplied with these units was barely adequate to serve a single system’s nitrogen requirements.