Instrument: High Performance Liquid Chromatograph
A High-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) is a type of liquid chromatography used to separate compounds that are dissolved in solution. HPLC instruments consist of a reservoir of the mobile phase, a pump, an injector, a separation column, and a detector. Compounds are separated by high pressure pumping of the sample mixture onto a column packed with microspheres coated with the stationary phase. The different components in the mixture pass through the column at different rates due to differences in their partitioning behavior between the mobile liquid phase and the stationary phase.
The HPLC used for pigment analysis is an Agilent RR1200 with a programmable autoinjector (900 ul syringe head), refrigerated autosampler, degasser, and photo-diode array detector with deuterium and tungsten lamps.