• Written in plain language, yet at a high conceptual level - accessible to students and intriguing even to the advanced practitioner
• Covers both theoretical and practical aspects of HPLC, with special emphasis on problem solving
• Extensively indexed and carefully organized to facilitate rapid answers to urgent problems
• More than 200 tables and 1,000 references allow the reader ready access to key information
• Contributors from top companies including Dow, Allergan, SmithKline, Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, and Beckman provide trouble-shooting expertise for every level of readers

High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a technique used in diverse laboratory and industrial settings for the separation of components of complex mixtures. HPLC: Practical and Industrial Applications is a trouble-shooting, problem-solving guide for scientists, engineers, and technicians who use HPLC in their day-to-day work. It provides the answers to specific problems and includes practical case studies. This case history approach to chromatography is an effective teaching tool and clearly illustrates how to use techniques such as reversed phase chromatography, ion exchange chromatography, gel permeation chromatography, and capillary electrophoresis.

The book is organized to facilitate rapid understanding for those working with a particular area of chromatography:

• Introduces the reader to instrumentation, reviews basic chromatographic theory, and presents a brief survey of absorbance fluorescence and refractive index detectors.
• Provides a broad view of the role of the analytical laboratory in an industrial organization.
• Offers suggestions on optimizing the utilization of personnel and work flow in the laboratory.
• Covers process sampling and analysis
• Describes process chromatography.

The remaining chapters discuss specialties within separations technology, including an outline of the key features of each technique, a thorough bibliography, a list of precedents, and detailed examples of one or more applications presented from the viewpoint of industrial and basic scientists. Specialty detectors are also described.

HPLC: Practical and Industrial Applications is an essential reference for those working in the industrial sector, as well as scientists, students, technicians interested in learning HPLC methods.