Guard Columns

Guard Columns

Innovative column protection products like OPTI-GUARD® Guard Columns, and OPTI–LYNX™ Quick-Connect Guard Cartridges protect your column investment. Despite all the complexity of the LC system, the heart of any separation is the column - and quite often, the most problematic. That is why protecting it is crucial - your investment goes beyond financial, into time spent in method development, verification, and troubleshooting. A guard column filters out particulates and trap irreversibly binding impurities, making it one of the simplest ways to protect an analytical column. This results in more consistent, reproducible behavior and extended column lifetime.

Ideally, a guard will have a negligible impact on separation, both in plate count efficiency and extra-column contributions. Optimize Technologies Guard Columns are all designed to have the smallest possible effect on your LC system. With innovations like an auto-adjusting stem, OPTI–LYNX quick-connect technology, and narrowbore IDs, they will provide the essential protection required of any guard column - without any negative impact on the chromatographic separation.